Schedule

September 4, 2013

  •  The first class of MAS834 Fall 2013: Welcome and introduction of Tangible Interfaces course (by Hiroshi Ishii)
  • Lecture: Vision-Driven Research: Seamless Media Design (by Hiroshi Ishii) ▶ slides (uploaded on 9/4/13)
  • Online Sign-up Sheet (Google Form) & Questionnaire for Selection (by Tony)
  • Enrollment decision and notification by September 6th (Friday)
  • Vision Videos:
  1. Apple Knowledge Navigator
  2. World Builder
  3. Seamless Media Design

September 11, 2013

  • Announcement of Solo Project 0: COLLABORATIVE IDEATION ▶ Due September 18. Presentation by individual student in Pecha-Kucha format on 09/18.
  • Lecture: Introduction of Visual Thinking (by Hiroshi Ishii)
  • Workshop 1: Sketching and physical prototyping for rapid Ideation (by Xiao Xiao, Ph.D. candidate of TMG) ▶ prototyping_slides (2013), prototyping_process_slides (2012)
  • Lecture: Introduction of TUI #1 (by Hiroshi Ishii) ▶ slides (2013)
  • Readings:
  1. “Seamless Media Design” by Hiroshi Ishii, Minoru Kobayashi and Kazuho Arita
  2. “Affordances of Media Spaces for Collaboration” by William W. Gaver
  3. “Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms” by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer
  4. “Tangible bits: beyond pixels” by Hiroshi Ishii

September 18, 2013

  • Presentation of Solo Project 0: COLLABORATIVE IDEATION including Self Introduction (by each student using Pecha-Kucha format to manage time)
  • Group forming toward Collaborative Project 1
  • Readings:
  1. Doug Engelbart (The Economist)
  2. Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse (New York Times)
  3. 1968 Demo of NLS by Doug Engelbart
  4. “The Computer for the 21st Century” by Mark Weiser

September 25, 2013

  • Announcement of Project 1:  3D TANGIBLES WITH DIGITAL SHADOWS
  • Lecture: Introduction of TUI #2 (by Hiroshi Ishii) ▶ slides (2013)
  • Guest Lecture by Dr. James Patten  on Explorations of Tabletop Tangible Interfaces and Beyond
  • Group forming and initial discussion on Project 1
  • Readings:
  1. “Bricks: laying the foundations for graspable user interfaces ” by Fitzmaurice, Ishii, and Buxton
  2. “Urp: a luminous-tangible workbench for urban planning and design.” by John Underkoffler and Hiroshi Ishii
  3. “Milliseconds Matter” by Gray and Boehm-Davis
  4. “The Intelligent Use of Space” by Kirsh

October 2, 2013

  1. An Observational Study of How Objects Support Engineering Design Thinking and Communication: Implications for the design of tangible media

October 9, 2013

  • Lecture: Exploring Adaptive Tangibles (by Tony)
  • Progress Review & Group working session for Project 1
  • Hiroshi and Jifei are absent (UIST 2014)
  • Readings:
  1. “Affordance, Conventions and Design” by Donald Norman
  2. “inFORM: Dynamic Physical Affordances and Constraints through Shape and Object Actuation” by Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Akimitsu Hogge and Hiroshi Ishii.
  3. “Shaping the future” by Tom Geller.

October 16, 2013

October 23, 2013

  • No Class because of the Media Lab Member’s Week

October 30, 2013

  • Guest Lecture by David Rose on “Designing Enchanted Objects”
  • Announcement of Project 2: PROGRAMMABLE MATERIAlLITY
  • Group working session for Project 2
  • Hiroshi and Jifei are absent (in Japan)
  • Readings:
  1. Readings: Radical Atoms_ACM_Interactions toward the Project

November 6, 2013

  • Guest Lecture by Dr. Rich Fletcher on “Design for Health“
  • Group working session for Project 2
  • Hiroshi and Jifei are absent (in Japan)
  • Readings:
  1. “Mind the Theoretical Gap: Interpreting, Using, and Developing Behavioral Theory in HCI Research” by Eric B. Hekler, Predrag Klasnja, Jon E. Froehlich, and Matthew P. Byman
  2. “Technologies for Global Health” by Peter Howitt et al.

November 13, 2013

  • Lecture:  “Beyond Tangible Bits, Toward Radical Atoms” (by Hiroshi Ishii) ▶ Slides 2013-11-13_MAS834_RadicalAtoms (2013)
  • Lecture: “Shape Display” (by Daniel Leithinger and Sean Follmer) ▶ inForm video
  • Guest Lecture by Prof. Neri Oxman on “The Eyes of the Skin“

November 20, 2013 

  • Guest Lecture by Dr. Amit Zoran on “Hybrids” (2:00-3:30)
  • Lecture: “Soft Transformable & Sensing Materials” (by Lining and Jifei) (3:40 – 4:50)
  • Readings:
  1. “PneUI: Pneumatically Actuated Soft Composite Materials for Shape Changing Interfaces” by Lining Yao, Ryuma Niiyama, Jifei Ou, Sean Follmer, Clark Della Silva, Hiroshi Ishii.
  2. “Hybrid Reassemblage: An Exploration of Craft, Digital Fabrication and Artifact Uniqueness” by Amit Zoran and Leah Buechley
  3. “Hybrid Basketry: Interweaving Digital Practice within Contemporary Craft” by Amit Zoran
  4. “Human-computer Interaction for Hybrid Carving” by Amit Zoran, Roy Shilkrot and Joseph Paradiso
  5. “A platform for manipulation and examination of the acoustic guitar:The Chameleon Guitar” by Amit Zoran, Stephen Welch and William D. Hunt

November 27, 2013

  • Guest Lecture by Prof. Skylar Tibbits on “Self-Assembly and Programmable Materials” (1:30 – 2:30)
  • Guest Lecture by Dr. Amanda Parkes & Corrie Van Sice on “Dynamic Materials” (2:30-3:40)
  • Group working session for Project 2 (3:50 – 4:50)
  • Readings
  1. “Beyond Biomimicry” by William Myers
  2. “Materializing Energy” by Pierce, J. and Paolos, E.
  3. “McLuhan and the Body as Medium” by Richard Cavall
  4. “Who’s Afraid of the In-between?” by Jens Hauser

December 4, 2013

  • Lecture: “Envision, Embody and Inspire” (by Hiroshi Ishii)
  • Progress Review & Group working session for Project 2
  • Readings

December 11, 2013  (Final Project Presentation)

  • Presentation of Project 2: PROGRAMMABLE MATERIALITY
  • Photo shooting
  • Final remarks