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):
- Apple Knowledge Navigator Classic Vision of the Future 1984
- Seamless Media Design Hiroshi Ishii’s Vision of Remote Collaboration Media (TeamWorkStation & ClearBoard) in 1994
- TRANSFORM TMG’s Radical Atoms Vision 2014
Readings for next class :
- “The Computer for the 21st Century” by Mark Weiser
- “Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms” CHI ’97 by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer
- “Tangible bits: beyond pixels” TEI ’08 by Hiroshi Ishii
- 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 :
- The mother of all demos by Doug Engelbart
- As we may think by Vannevar Bush
- The theory of affordances by James J. Gibson
- 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.
Project 1. (deadline November 2nd, 2016)
In your assigned groups, create a tool to connect two (or more) people who have a shared hobby or interest. Think about telepresence, or within the same proximity. Think carefully about the communication, affordance and the story you want your project to convey.
Look at examples such as:
MirrorFugue
PingPong++
BodyBeats
Class 4 – Tangible Bits Framework
October 05, 2016
- Lecture: Tangible Bits Framework by Hiroshi Ishii (20 min)
- Continuation of Technical Workshop: Arduino/Processing by Udayan and Dan (90 min).
- Project 1 Ideas (45 min)
Technical workshop: Introduction to Pneuiduino and quick presentation of Pressure Sensor based work.
Class 5 – Tangible Bits Framework
October 12, 2016
- 1PM- 2PM Guest Lecture: Marcelo Coelho
- 2.10PM – 3.10PM Guest Lecture: Jie Qi
- Project 1 quick update
Class 6 – Inter-material Interaction
October 19, 2016
- 1PM- 2.10PM Guest Lecture: Daniel Leithinger
- 2.20PM – 3PM Lecture: Udayan Umapathi
- Project 1 quick update
Class 7 – Project 1 presentation
November 02, 2016
- 10 minutes per presentation
- 5 minutes for feedback
- 20 minutes for demo and informal feedback
Class 8 – Vision for the future: Radical Atoms
November 09, 2016
- 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.
Project 2. (deadline December 7, 2016)
In your assigned groups make a “programmable material” that allows programmable behaviors or affordances in the physical world for productivity or expression.
Look at examples such as:
Class 9 – Modular Robots
November 16, 2016
- 1PM – 2.10 PM Guest Lecture: Modular robots for programmable matter by Ara Knaian
- 2:15pm-2:45pm Guest Lecture by Ken Nakagaki(TMG, Media Lab)
- 2.45PM – 2.55PM Break
- 2.55PM – 4 PM Project 2 Individual Ideas
Class 10 – Si-Fi Inspired Interfaces
November 23, 2016
- 1PM – 2PM Sci-Fi inspired interfaces: Lecture by Dan Novy
- 2PM – 2.15PM Break
- 2.15PM – 3PM In-class project discussion
- 3PM – 4PM Project 2 group work time
Links
- Hiroshi Ishii, Dávid Lakatos, Leonardo Bonanni, and Jean-Baptiste Labrune. 2012. Radical atoms: beyond tangible bits, toward transformable materials. interactions 19, 1 (January 2012), 38-51. DOI=10.1145/2065327.2065337 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2065327.2065337 | RadicalAtoms
- Ivan Sutherland, 1965. The Ultimate Display | Sutherland-The-Ultimate-Display
Class 11 – Radical Atoms Summary
November 30, 2016
- 1PM – 2PM Lecture from Hiroshi Ishii: Summary of Radical Atoms Vision
- 2PM – 2.15PM Break
- 2.15 – 4pm Group working time and TA feedback
Class 12 – Final Presentations
December 07, 2016
- 1pm – 2pm Guest lecture – Lining Yao
- 2pm – 4pm Presentations + feedback
- Report due Dec 14th 2016 CHI paper format: http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-paper-format-2016/view