Class 1 – Orientation

September 14, 2016

• Lecture: Welcome and introduction of Tangible Interfaces course (by Hiroshi Ishii)
  • Presentation Slides: 2016-09-09_ArsElectronica_RadicalAtoms.pdf
• Lecture: Concept-Driven Research: Seamless Media Design (by Hiroshi Ishii) 
• Vision Videos (for further references):

1. Apple Knowledge Navigator   Classic Vision of the Future  1984
2. Seamless Media Design   Hiroshi Ishii’s Vision of Remote Collaboration Media (TeamWorkStation & ClearBoard) in 1994
3. TRANSFORM   TMG’s Radical Atoms Vision 2014

Readings for next class :

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1. “The Computer for the 21st Century” by Mark Weiser
2. “Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms” CHI ’97 by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer
3. “Tangible bits: beyond pixels” TEI ’08 by Hiroshi Ishii
4. Shape-Changing Interfaces: A Review of the Design Space and Open Research Questions – CHI2012

Assignment: 

• If you want to enroll in this class, fill this form by Thursday (Sept 15, 2016) at noon 
• Accepted students will be finalized on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 15, 2016) and notified on Friday morning (Sept. 16, 2016)
• We will form groups for you by next class

Class 2 – Interaction design workshop

September 21, 2016

• Lecture : Introduction to interaction design (Penny Webb) Presentation Slides: TI_Week2_Design_Workshop.pdf
• Workshop teaching interaction design methods and prototyping (by Penny Webb)

Readings for next class :

1. The mother of all demos by Doug Engelbart
2. As we may think by Vannevar Bush
3. The theory of affordances by James J. Gibson
4. Don Norman: Designing For People

Assignment (in-class): Work with a specific material based on the following design brief:

Take a specific material that interests you, observe its qualities: texture, behaviors, color, density etc. Think about what else this material could do if it had qualities beyond what are there; could it dance, sing, change shape, communicate with you? Design a system that allows a user to interact with your material that uses both the physical qualities of the tangible material and couple this with intangible qualities you are adding to it.

Class 3 – Technical workshop

September 28, 2016

• Lecture on Tangible Bits Framework by (20 min)  (postponed)
• Guest Lecture by Oksana Anilionyte (20 min)
• Technical Workshop: Arduino/Processing by Udayan and Dan (90 min). Lecture Slides.
• Announcement of Project 1 (5 min)
• Group forming for Project 1

Assignment (deadline October 2nd):

In your assigned groups, start brainstorming ideas for project 1 (see below), generate 5 concept sketches (approximately one each) for the class next week.

Look at examples such as:
MirrorFugue
PingPong++
BodyBeats

• 1PM – 2.10 PM Guest Lecture: Ryan Truby, Harvard Wyss Institute
  • “Soft Matter Machines for Programmable, Tangible Interfaces”
• 2.15PM – 2.45PM Guest Lecture: Prof John Hart from Mechanosynthesis Group
• 2:15pm-2:40pm Guest Lecture by Jifei Ou (TMG, Media Lab)
  • “aeroMorph”   http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/aeromorph/
• 2.45PM – 2.55PM Break
• 2.55PM – 3.25PM Project 2 Announcement

Assignment (deadline November 16, 2016 ):

In your assigned groups, start brainstorming ideas for project 2 (see below), generate 5 concept sketches (approximately one each) for the class next week.

Look at examples such as:

Sticky Actuators

ChainForm 

Biologic

Compass

Pneui

Jamsheets

Perfect Red