Instructor

Professor: Bill Tomlinson

Email: wmt@uci.edu

Office: CS 430A

Office Phone: (949) 824-9333

Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00am-12:00pm in ACE Faculty Trailer

Course Web Site: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wmt/courses/Prog4IntF05/

Overview

The graduate course is designed to give students an accelerated introduction to computer programming and interaction design. The course will deal with broad themes of how to create interesting and effective interactions, and with the specific implementation details of a variety of input and output technologies (such as tangible user interfaces, graphical user interfaces, computer graphics and sound). Students will be expected to produce several functioning interactive projects over the duration of the course, to present a final project publicly at the end of the course, and to document this final project online.

Schedule

Week	Class Date	Topic	Readings Due	Assignments
1	Sept 27	Introduction
1	Sept 28	Java programming language	Stein A	Project 1 assignment distributed.
2	Oct 4	Real-time Graphics	Stein B
2	Oct 5	Presentation of Project 1. Development environments.	Dourish	Project 1 due. Project 2 assignment distributed.
3	Oct 11	Class optional due to SymbioticA Workshop. One-on-one programming help.	Reeves & Nass
3	Oct 12		VectorPark
4	Oct 18	Sound	Shafer
4	Oct 19	Presentation of Project 2. Debugging.	Sims	Project 2 due. Project 3 assignment distributed.
5	Oct 25	Input	Schechner
5	Oct 26	Presentation of Project 3. Programming resources.	Sodaplay	Project 3 due. Project 4 assignment distributed.
6	Nov 1	Networking	Reynolds
6	Nov 2	Presentation of Project 4. Programming in groups.	Dodgeball	Project 4 due. Final Project assignment distributed.
7	Nov 8	Learning new languages and tools	Grinter
7	Nov 9	Presentation of Final Project design specification.	Processing
8	Nov 15	Mobile devices	Klopfer
8	Nov 16	AI	Weizenbaum
9	Nov 22	Students present final project prototypes.		Final Project prototype due.
9	Nov 23	Students present final project prototypes.
10	Nov 29	Robots	Braitenberg
10	Nov 30	Games	Gamasutra
Exam Week	Dec 5-9 (TBD)			Final project due.

Readings

All readings are either linked below, or will be available at the following UCI Library URL:

http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/search/p?SEARCH=tomlinson&submit=Submit

Stein A: http://www.cs101.org/ipij/ Chapter 1-2

Stein B: http://www.cs101.org/ipij/ Chapter 3-7

Dourish: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/embodied/essay.pdf

Reeves & Nass: B. Reeves and C. Nass, The Media Equation. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1996. p. 19-35

VectorPark: http://www.vectorpark.com/ball.html

Shafer: R. Murray Shafer, The Tuning of the World. New York: Knopf, 1977. (Chapter TBD.)

Sims: http://www.genarts.com/karl/papers/siggraph91.html

Schechner: R. Schechner. “Rasaesthetics.” The Drama Review, Vol. 45 Num. 3. 2001. p.27-38

Sodaplay: http://www.sodaplay.com/

Reynolds: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dt/siggraph97-course/cwr87/

Dodgeball: http://www.dodgeball.com/

Grinter: http://www.grinter.org/ecscw01.pdf

Processing: http://processing.org/

Klopfer: http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/Handheld/Intro.htm

Weizenbaum: J. Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason," in New Media Reader, N. Wardrip-Fruin & N. Montfort, Eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976/2003. p.367-375

Braitenberg: V. Braitenberg, Vehicles. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. p. 1-19

Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010129/adams_01.htm

Grading

Four Assignments @ 10% = 40%

Final Project = 40%

Class Participation = 20%

Computer and Network Use Policy

When working on UCI systems, you are bound by the UCI Computer and Network Use Policy: http://www.policies.uci.edu/adm/pols/714-18.html

Add/Drop

Students will not be permitted to add or drop the course after the second week (Oct 7, 5:00pm).

Note

These are guidelines intended to help students plan their work in this course. However, the instructor reserves the right to make changes to this syllabus over the course of the quarter.