91.550 Multi-Touch Computing - Spring 2011

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Announcements

• Welcome to Multi-Touch Computing!
• Projects from Fall 2009 class

Class Meetings

Thursdays, 4:00-6:30, Olsen 401

Office Hours

Tuesdays 8:30-11:30
and by appointment

TA Info

Eric McCann
Office hours: Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 and by appointment
E-mail address: On syllabus

Software

Installers for the class software
Eric's code examples from class on 2/3/2011

Handouts

2/24/2011:

• Final project information

2/10/2011:

• Lab 3, due 24 February 2011

2/3/2011:

• Lab 2, due 10 February 2011
• How Do I...?
• WPF Quick Start
• WPF Intro
• XNA Quick Start
• Eric's code examples from class

1/27/2011:

• Syllabus
• Assignment 1, due on 2/3/2011
• Lab 1, due on 2/3/2011
• Surface Intro Documentation, for Lab 1
• Recommendations for C# and WPF books

Readings

Week 11: Multi-touch for computer gaming and visualization
(Handed out on 4/7/2011, for class on 4/14/2011)

• Michael S. Horn, Matthew Tobiasz, and Chia Shen, Visualizing Biodiversity with Voronoi Treemaps, Proceedings of Sixth Annual International Symposium on Voroni Diagrams in Science and Engineering, June 23-26, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Maarten Cardinaels, Karel Frederix, Johan Nulens, Dieter Van Rijsselbergen, Maarten Verwaest, and Philippe Bekaert, A Multi-Touch 3D Set Modeler for Drama Production, Proceedings of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2008), p. 330-335, 2008.
• Daniel Stødle, Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, John Markus Bjørndalen, and Otto J. Anshus, Gesture-Based, Touch-Free Multi-User Gaming on Wall-Sized, High-Resolution Tiled Displays, Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, Volume 5, no.10, 2008.

Week 10: Pen/tablet computing and its relation to multi-touch
(Handed out on 3/31/2011, for class on 4/7/2011)

• Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Dan Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Peter Tandler, Benjamin Bederson, and Alex Zierlinger, Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: techniques for accessing remote screen content on touch- and pen-operated systems, In Proceedings of Interact 2003.
• Matthew Kam, Jingtao Wang, Alastair Iles, Eric Tse, Jane Chiu, Daniel Glaser, Orna Tarshish and John Canny, Livenotes: A System for Cooperative and Augmented Note-Taking in Lectures, CHI 2005, April 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• Joseph J. LaViola Jr. and Robert C. Zeleznik, MathPad2: A System for the Creation and Exploration of Mathematical Sketches, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004), 23(3):432-440, August 2004.

Week 9: Multi-touch for Disaster Response and Robot Control
(Handed out 3/24/2011, for class on 3/31/2011)

• Mark Micire, Evolution and Field Performance of a Rescue Robot, Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 25, Issue 1-2, p. 17-30, 2008.
• Mark Micire, Jill L. Drury, Brenden Keyes, and Holly Yanco, Multi-Touch Interaction for Robot Control, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sanibel Island, Florida, February 8–11, 2009.
• Bob Bever, Multi-touch Technology Enabler for Advanced Command and Control, 21st Annual Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC), April 20-23 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Daisuke Sakamoto, Koichiro Honda, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi, Sketch and Run: A Stroke-based Interface for Home Robots, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 04-09, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.

Week 8: Different Form Factors
(Handed out 3/10/2011, for class on 3/24/2011)

• Hrvoje Benko, Beyond Flat Surface Computing: Challenges of Depth-Aware and Curved Interfaces, MM’09, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China.

Week 7: NASA Multi-touch Redesign
(Handed out 3/3/2011, for class on 3/10/2011)
There are six papers to read for this week:

• first
• second,
• third,
• fourth,
• fifth, and
• sixth.

Week 6: Designing GUIs for multi-touch
(Handed out 2/24/2011, for class on 3/3/2011)

• Daniel Wigdor, Gerald Penn, Kathy Ryall, Alan Esenther, and Chia Shen, Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table, IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-computer Systems, October 2007.
• Stacey D. Scott, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, and Kori M. Inkpen, Territoriality in Collaborative Tabletop Workspaces, CSCW-04, November 6-10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois.
• Mark Hancock and Sheelagh Carpendale, Supporting Multiple Off-Axis Viewpoints at a Tabletop Display, Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '07), 2007.
• Yvonne Rogers and Sian Lindley. Collaborating Around Large Interactive Displays: Which Way Is Best To Meet?, Interacting with Computers, Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1133-1152, December 2004.

Week 5: Designing Gesture Sets
(Handed out 2/17/2011, for class on 2/24/2011)

• Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Andrew D. Wilson, User-Defined Gestures for Surface Computing, CHI 2009, Boston, MA, April 4-9, 2009.
• Mike Wu, Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines, and Ravin Balakrishnan, Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Reuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '06), 2006.
• Mark Micire, Munjal Desai, Amanda Courtemanche, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco, Analysis of Natural Gestures for Controlling Robot Teams on Multi-touch Tabletop Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, Banff, Alberta, November 23-25, 2009.
• Mark Micire, Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury, Eric McCann, Adam Norton, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco. Design and Validation of Two-Handed Multi-Touch Tabletop Controllers for Robot Teleoperation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Palo Alto, CA, February 13-16, 2011.

Week 4: Ergonomics and Usability
(Handed out 2/10/2011, for class on 2/17/2011)

• Ergonomics and Design: A Reference Guide, Compiled and Written by Scott Openshaw and Erin Taylor, Allsteel 2006.
• J. Nielsen, Iterative User Interface Design, IEEE Computer 26, 11 (November), 32-41, 2003.
• Michael Nielsen, Moritz Storring, Thomas B. Moeslund, and Erik Granum, A Procedure for Developing Intuitive and Ergonomic Gesture Interfaces for Man-Machine Interaction, Technical Report CVMT 03-01, ISSN 1601-3646, CVMT, Aalborg University, March, 2003

Week 3: Multi-Touch Technologies
(Handed out 2/3/2011, for class on 2/10/2011)

• Jefferson Y. Han, Low-Cost Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, UIST '05, October 23-27, 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Johannes Schoning, Peter Brandl, Florian Daiber, Florian Echtler, Otmar Hilliges, Jonathan Hook, Markus Lochtefeld, Nima Motamedi, Laurence Muller, Patrick Olivier, Tim Roth, and Ulrich von Zadow, Multi-Touch Surfaces: A Technical Guide, 2008.

Week 2: Usability and Feedback
(Handed out 1/27/2011, for class on 2/3/2011)

• Multi-Touch Systems that I have Known and Loved - Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research
• Daniel Wigdor, Sarah Williams, Michael Cronin, Robert Levy, Katie White, Maxim Mazeev, and Hrvoje Benko (2009). Ripples: Utilizing Per-Contact Visualization to Improve User Interaction with Touch Displays. In Proceedings of ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09), pp. 3-12.