New Interaction Techniques

Uudet vuorovaikutustekniikat (3-5 ov)

Seminar Program on Thursday, May 17th

15.15 Roope Raisamo: overview

Conference papers:
15.20 Kaj Mäkelä & Esa-Pekka Salonen: Conducting a Wizard of Oz test on Ubiquitous Computing system Ovimies
15.35 Jukka Raisamo & Tommi Järvinen: ‘Space Alignment’ Tool: A Novel Manipulation Tool for Straight-line Graph editing
15.50 Marko Illi: Combined Voluntary Gaze Direction and Facial Muscle Activity as a New Hands-free Technique for Human-Computer Interaction
16.05 Elina Haapanen: Using a Mouse With Tactile Feedback

16.20 BREAK (30 min)

Projects:
16.50 Jiri Hlusi: Scrolling with Feet in 2 Dimensions
17.00 Sami Pekkola & Juha Jääskeläinen: Autocomplete in Text Input - A Comparison Between Finnish and English
17.10 Teemu Tanila: New Interaction Technique for Flexible Text Copying
17.20 June Miyazaki: Simple Email Composing System without a Keyboard and a Mouse
17.30 Paavo Arvola & Mikko Leponiemi: Foot-Operated Input Mode-Switching
17.40 Mikael Rinnetmäki: Wearable Email Client
17.50 seminar ends

Course Schedule

The course consists of lectures and seminar work. Participation in the seminar is required. Lectures are recommended. Every student should take part in at least 4 visiting lectures.

Lectures 18.1.2001-1.3.2001 (Roope Raisamo and the visiting lecturers)
Mondays 12-14 Pinni 1100 (Paavo Koli auditorium)
Thursdays, 15-17 Pinni 1100 (Paavo Koli auditorium)

Weekly Guidance in the programming projects and paper writing 6.3.2001-2.5.2001 (Poika Isokoski and Roope Raisamo)
Tuesdays 12-14 Pinninkatu 53B, rooms 430 and 425.
Wednesdays 10-12 Pinninkatu 53B, rooms 430 and 425.

Seminars 10.5.2001 and 17.5.2001 (Roope Raisamo)
Two dates have been allocated for the seminar: Thursday 10.5.2001 16-19 and Thursday 17.5.2001 15-18. The seminar will most likely be held in the Paavo Koli auditorium.

The length of the seminar will be decided based on the amount of students in the course. Participation in at least one seminar session is required.

Contact
Roope Raisamo <rr@cs.uta.fi>
Pinninkatu 53B/425, tel. (03) 215 7056

Lectures

18.1. (Thursday)
Roope Raisamo:
Organizing the course; requirements and the schedule. [ppt] [html]
Interaction devices, Interaction technologies, and Interaction techniques. [ppt] [html]

22.1. (Monday)
Roope Raisamo: Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction [ppt] [html]

no lectures: 25.1. (Thursday)

29.1. (Monday)
Roope Raisamo:
Guidance for the student projects [ppt] [html]
How to design an interaction technique?
How to construct novel user interfaces?
How to write research papers?

References and articles:

ACM

ACM Digital Library

ACM SIGCHI

SIGCHI Finland

VR-SIG Finland

IEEE Computer Society

IEEE CS Digital Library

IEEE Electronic Library

HCI Index

HCIRN

Conferences

HCIBIB

Bibliographies on HCI

HCI links
AltaVista

Google!

Upcoming conferences:

CHI 2001

Siggraph 2001

UIST 2001

no lectures: 1.2. (Thursday)

5.2. (Monday) Roope Raisamo (rr@cs.uta.fi) & Toni Pakkanen (toni@cs.uta.fi):
Interacting with Hands [ppt] [html] and Feet [ppt] [html]

8.2. (Thursday) Roope Raisamo (rr@cs.uta.fi):
Tactile User Interfaces [ppt] [html]

12.2. (Monday) Poika Isokoski (poika@cs.uta.fi):
Text input [ppt] [html] [project topics]

15.2. (Thursday) Veikko Surakka and Timo Partala (psvesu@uta.fi):
Affective computing [ppt1] [ppt2] [html1] [html2]

19.2. (Monday) Aulikki Hyrskykari (ah@cs.uta.fi):
Eye tracking [ppt] [html]

22.2.(Thursday) Markku Turunen (mturunen@cs.uta.fi):
Speech user interfaces [ppt] [harjoitustyöaiheita (in Finnish)]

26.2. (Monday) Ismo Rakkolainen, TUT/Signal Processing Laboratory (ira@cs.tut.fi):
VR Techniques [pdf]

1.3. (Thursday) Marja Salmimaa, Nokia Research Center (marja.salmimaa@nokia.com):
Wearable computing [pdf]

Ways of Passing the Course

The course can be taken in a normal (3 cu) or long (5 cu) format.
The normal course consists of writing a paper or constructing a program that includes a new interaction technique.
The long course consists of either writing a paper and constructing a program, or constructing a program and writing a conference paper on it. This kind of paper should include some kind of evaluation of the program.
In addition, active participation in the seminar is required.

Details of the different ways of passing the course:

Programming projects can be any kind of new interaction techniques implemented in any environment. A short paper, up to 2 pages in ACM UIST format, is also written to be included in the course publication. The paper is written in English. A project group may consist of one to three persons.

Papers must present a novel interaction technique. In addition, there must be a comprehensive survey of interaction technologies, specific interaction techniques, or other subjects directly related to the presented interaction technique. These full papers are up to 8 pages in ACM UIST format, and they are included in the course publication. The papers are written in English.

More detailed instructions for the programming projects and written papers will be given before that part of the course starts. The programming projects and papers may make use of any potential interaction techniques, devices and modalities. It is not required to write the actual implementation when writing a paper, but every paper should have a plan that is concrete enough to see whether it could be implemented.

Principles of Evaluation

There is no written examination in this course. The evaluation is based on the papers and programming projects.

Roope Raisamo <rr@cs.uta.fi>