After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
Cognitive and practical competences:
- Abilitity to design, develop and evaluate own applications with multi-sensory user interfaces
- Ability to integrate state-of-the-art sensors and/or actuators with suitable software and hardware control into an application
- Ability to design user study to assess multi-sensory interfaces, from the experimental protocol to the statistical analyses of the data.
Technical background and methodological competencies: Students learn about
- Basics of human sensory perception
- New types of (2D/3D) interaction, new interfaces
- Basics of statistics for assessing multimedia interfaces
- Application of various multi-sensory technologies in different application areas and their implications for humans and society
Special lecture about multimedia based and non conventional user interfaces:
Frontal lecture with many examples in pictures and videos
Presentation and discussion of simple application examples
ECTS Breakdown - 3 ECTS ~ 75h
20h lectures (10*2h)
25h oral preparation
25h exam preparation
2h oral exam
2h written exam
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Lectures dates
Zoom link to attend:
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/98249809083?pwd=TXkxbWRHUWtnOTNIOVovd0RSTGF1QT09
Tuesday: 08.03.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Background)
Tuesday: 15.03.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Vision)
Monday: 21.03.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Hearing and Speech)
Tuesday: 29.03.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Haptics)
Tuesday: 05.04.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00(Locomotion and human motion 1)
Tuesday: 26.04.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Locomotion and human motion 2)
Tuesday: 10.05.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Miscallenous interfaces)
Tuesday: 17.05.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Multimedia HW and SW)
Tuesday: 24.05.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Design of user studies)
Tuesday: 31.05.2022 - 10:00 – 12:00 (Human factors and User Centered Design)
Written (50% of the final grade) and Oral (50% of the final grade) exam
The written exam will last 2 hours and will consist of proposing a solution to a problem related to multimedia interfaces based on the state of the art presented in the course.
The oral exam will be a 15 minutes presentation of a research paper. Students will have to choose in the first weeks which paper the want to study and will have to present it during the oral exam session.
Written exam dates:
Tuesday 21.06.2022 (10-12h)
Tuesday 28.06.2022 (10-12h)
Oral exam date:
Tuesday 14.06.2022 (8-12h)
No major requirements but, knowledge in computer graphics, User Interfaces, Multimedia-Technology are advantageous. Inscription in the master studies is absolutely necessary!!!