Course 06651, Spring 2010

Human-Computer Interaction Advanced Course: Haptics Project

Instructor
Ki-Uk Kyung
 
Office: 501 Building 7, ETRI, Tel: 042-860-1703
Email: kyungku @ gmail.com
Web page:  http://kyungku.net/xe/course_Haptics2
Office Hours: Monday 16:00-19:00

Course Meeting
Wednesday 18:30~20:30
L-62A Building 7, ETRI Campus

Required Text
None

Optional Text
Burdea, Grigore,  Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality, Wiley-Interscience, 1996, ISBN:0471021415
Antonio Bicchi, Martin Buss, Marc O. Ernst, Angelika Peer (Ed), Sense of Touch and Its Rendering : Progress in Haptics Research, Springer-Verlag New York, LLC, 2008, BN-13: 9783540790341

Prerequisites
None.

Level
Primarily lectures for graduate students.  Several class sessions will be devoted to in-class design exercises.

Overview
This course surveys methods for designing human-system interaction interfaces. The 2 hours course meeting will be organized into a lecture, a project presentation and a group discussion. For projects, students will perform a system analysis, a design, an evaluation, a cognitive walkthrough, a usability test and a comparison study. Particularly, students should develop a haptic interaction system and will be required to prove its usability. Class meetings will also introduce, discuss and occasionally practice additional methods such as interface design, user modeling and questionnaires.

Goals
Acquire the essential knowledge and skills needed to create highly usable haptic interaction systems.
The primary goal is to learn how to design a haptic interaction interface as a new human-computer interaction skill. The course covers software and psychology issues as well as H/W design issue. This includes:
- Terms and Definitions
- Human Perception Issues
- Haptic Device Design
- Materials: Sensors and Actuators
- Haptic Rendering
- Stability Control
- Evaluations: Parametric Test, Usability Test
- Case Study
- System Development

Technical Support for Term Project
A student should develop his/her own haptic interaction system and evaluate it. However, if a student is not able to design any H/W mechanism, the instructor will support one of 4 types haptic devices such as handheld haptic device, haptic device for touch screen, desktop haptic device and wearable type haptic device.

Grade Determination
50% (40 points) 4 Week Projects  (10 points each)
50% (50 points) Term Project
10% (10 points) Individual contribution

Students receiving more than 85% of possible points are guaranteed at least an A-, more than 70% at least a B-, and more than 60% at least a C-.

Policies
There is no formal attendance requirements, but all students are expected to attend the live class. Some class activities require active student participation such as group brainstorming, presentation and projects.  Failure to participate in these course activities could result in reductions to the contribution score or respective project scores.
The early stage projects may be completed individually, but term projects will be recommended to organize teams of two to three students. Generally, each team member will receive the same score on each project. However, in some cases, additional credit may go to those who make an exceptional contribution to a project and reduced credit to those who contribute little to a project. 
Exams can only be made up with a serious documented excuse. A make-up exam must be arranged as soon as possible and always before the student attends the next class meeting. Arrangements involving other excuses require prior permission from the instructor.
Term presentations occur in the last week of class. Distance Learning students will create an online presentation.
All grade challenges must be submitted in writing and include an explanation why the given score or grade should be reconsidered. Auditors are welcome, but they should participate in all course activities.

Tentative Schedule