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:

• Human sensory systems (vision, hearing, haptics…)
• Multisensory integration, and human perception-cognition-action loop
• Multimedia Hardware: Input & Output devices for stimulating sensory systems in 2d and 3d interactions (displays, tracking, sensors…)
• How to design an experiment to assess multimedia interfaces? (experimental protocol, hypothesis, user study, statistical analyses)
• Human factors in the design of Human Computer Interfaces, current and future challenges

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

3h oral exam seminar

2h written exam

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Lectures dates: See below to see the schedule

Zoom link to attend: 

https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/98249809083?pwd=TXkxbWRHUWtnOTNIOVovd0RSTGF1QT09

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 10 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.

No major requirements but, knowledge in computer graphics, User Interfaces, Multimedia-Technology are advantageous. Inscription in the master studies is absolutely necessary!!!