Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction

Seminar, SS 2009

Georg Essl, Michael Rohs

Date: Tuesday, starting April 21, 2009
Time: 10:00-12:00
Location: TEL Auditorium 1 (20th floor), Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin


Description:

In this seminar we will read and discuss current papers from top conferences and journals in the area of human-computer interaction, such as CHI, UIST, and MobileHCI. Here is a short 1-slide outline of each paper:

Paper overviews.

Each week we will have an in-depth discussion of one article. One participant will act as a shepherd of the article, which includes a short presentation (15 minutes) and the preparation of a few discussion questions. The presenter should also read the most important related work that is referenced in the paper. All participants are expected to have read the article before class and come up with at least two discussion questions.

A presentation template is provided here. The goal of the discussion is to identify the contribution of the paper, its significance to HCI, open issues, and ideas for future work. Students don't need to produce a writeup, but a short summary of the discussion.

The seminar is suitable for students with basic knowledge in human-computer interaction. Students will learn how to analyze conference and journal articles in order to understand the core idea and the contribution to the field, as well as to identify open questions and opportunities for future work.

Course discussion group


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Discussed Papers:

Date Paper Presenter Overview Discussion
Apr 21   Paper assignment Paper overviews  
Apr 28 1 Nicholas de Laczkovich PenLight PenLight
May 5 2, 14 Johannes Hange Dynamically Changeable Buttons Dynamically Changeable Buttons
May 12 3 Antonio Munoz Torres User-Defined Gestures User-Defined Gestures
May 19 4 Juliane Bürglen MicroRolls MicroRolls
May 26 5 Wajdi Almir SLAP Widgets SLAP Widgets
Jun 2 7 Hayri Bakici Back-of-Device Interaction Back-of-Device Interaction
Jun 9 8 Marlene Vogel Tilt Techniques  
Jun 16 9 Dmitri Wolowelsky Texture Displays Texture Displays
Jun 23 10 Stefan Schütz OctoPocus OctoPocus
Jun 30 11, 6 Nicolas Coradin Physics to the Surface Physics to the Surface
Jul 7 12 Ralph Bauer Scratch Input Scratch Input
Jul 7 13 Artjom Sajatz Second Light Second Light
Jul 14 16, 15 Karatzika Paraskevi 3D vs. 2D Mobile Map 3D vs. 2D Mobile Map

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References:

  1. Hyunyoung Song, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Françis Guimbretière, Azam Khan, Ramtin Attar, Gordon Kurtenbach. PenLight: Combining a Mobile Projector and a Digital Pen for Dynamic Visual Overlay. CHI 2009. Video.
  2. Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson. Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display. CHI 2009. Project page.
  3. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, Andrew D. Wilson. User-Defined Gestures for Surface Computing. CHI 2009.
  4. Anne Roudaut, Eric Lecolinet, Yves Guiard. MicroRolls: Expanding Touch-Screen Input Vocabulary by Distinguishing Rolls vs. Slides of the Thumb. CHI 2009. Video. Presentation.
  5. Malte Weiss, Julie Wagner, Yvonne Jansen, Roger Jennings, Ramsin Khoshabeh, James D. Hollan, and Jan Borchers. SLAP Widgets: Bridging the Gap Between Virtual and Physical Controls on Tabletops. CHI 2009. Project page.
  6. Minwoo Choi, Gerard Jounghyun Kim. "TouchBall": A Design and Evaluation of a Hand-held Trackball based Touch-Haptic Interface. CHI 2009, short paper.
  7. Patrick Baudisch, Gerry Chu. Back-of-Device Interaction Allows Creating Very Small Touch Devices. CHI 2009. Project page.
  8. Mahfuz Rahman, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Sriram Subramanian. Tilt Techniques: Investigating the Dexterity of Wrist-based Input. CHI 2009. Project page.
  9. Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson. Texture Displays: A Passive Approach to Tactile Presentation. CHI 2009. Project page.
  10. Olivier Bau, Wendy Mackay. OctoPocus: A Dynamic Guide for Learning Gesture-Based Command Sets. UIST 2008. Project page.
  11. Andrew Wilson, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, David Kirk. Bringing Physics to the Surface. UIST 2008. Video.
  12. Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson. Scratch Input: Creating Large, Inexpensive, Unpowered and Mobile Finger Input Surfaces. UIST 2008. Project page.
  13. Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Dan Rosenfeld, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler, Jonathan Westhues. Going Beyond the Display: A Surface Technology with an Electronically Switchable Diffuser. UIST 2008. Video.
  14. Dave Gallant, Andrew Seniuk, Roel Vertegaal. Towards More Paper-like Input: Flexible Input Devices for Foldable Interaction Styles. UIST 2008, short paper. Project page.
  15. Stephen A. Brewster, Jody Johnston. Multimodal Interfaces for Camera Phones. MobileHCI 2008, short paper.
  16. Antti Oulasvirta, Sara Estlander, Antti Nurminen. Embodied Interaction with a 3D versus 2D Mobile Map. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 13 (4). Special Issue on Mobile Spatial Interaction.

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