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Course Syllabus and Info


Date Lecture Description Readings Assignments Materials
1/10/11 Introduction to 3D User Interfaces
   -course mechanics
   -definitions
   -3D UI Applications
3DUI Book -- Chapter 1
New Directions in 3DUI
3DUI New Directions Survey

Lecture slides
1/12/11 3DUIs and Games 3DUI Book -- Chapter 2
3DUI,VR and Games

Lecture slides
1/17/11 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday


1/19/11 Unity 3D Creighton Assignment 1 Lecture Slides
Unity Resources
1/24/11 Wiimotes LaViola and Marks(2010)
Lecture Slides
Wiimote Client/Server
Unity Wiimote script
1/26/11

3DUI Hardware - Visual Displays
   -depth cues
   -display characteristics
   -display examples

3DUI Book -- Chapter 3, pp. 29-59

Lecture slides
1/31/11

3DUI Hardware - Audio/Haptic Displays
   - 3D spatial audio
   - audio/haptic cues
   - haptic devices

3DUI Book -- Chapter 3, pp. 59-86

Lecture slides
2/2/11

3DUI Hardware - Input Devices
   - input device characteristics
   - tracking devices
   - custom input devices

3DUI Book -- Chapter 4

Lecture slides
2/7/11

Selection and Manipulation
   - selection techniques
   - manipulation techniques
   - categories of selection

3DUI Book -- Chapter 5, pp. 139-168

Lecture slides
2/9/11

Non-isomorphic 3D interaction

3DUI Book -- Chapter 5, pp. 168-182


2/14/11 Navigation -- Travel 3DUI Book -- Chapter 6

Lecture slides
2/16/11 Navigation -- Wayfinding 3DUI Book -- Chapter 7
Assignment 2 out Lecture slides
2/21/11 Symbolic Input 3DUI Book -- Chapter 9

Lecture slides
2/23/11 System Control Technques 3DUI Book -- Chapter 8

Lecture slides
2/28/11 3DUI Design - Designing for Humans 3DUI Book -- Chapter 10, pp. 311-330

Lecture slides
3/2/11 Gaming Day


3/7/11 Spring Break


3/9/11 Spring Break
Assignment 2 due
Assignment 3 out

3/14/11 3DUI Design -- Inventing 3DUIs 3DUI Book -- Chapter 10, pp. 331-347

Lecture slides
3/16/11 3DUI Evaluation I - Basic concepts 3DUI Book -- Chapter 11, pp. 349-369

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3/21/11 3DUI Evaluation II -- Evaluation strategies 3DUI Book -- Chapter 11, pp. 369-384

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3/23/11 3DUI Evaluation III - Example studies

Lecture slides
3/28/11 3DUI in the Real World 3DUI Book -- Chapter 12

Lecture slides
3/30/11 Paper Presentations
  --Bo Kang
  --Zihang Zou
  --James Cobb
Choumane et al.(2010)
Song et al.(2011)
Chertoff et al.(2009)


4/4/11 Project Updates



4/6/11 Paper Presentations
   -- Paul Szerlip
   -- Mike Questo
   -- Alex Kachurin
Kopper et al.(2011)
Shotton et al.(2011)
Larsen et al.(2011)


4/11/11 Project Updates



4/13/11 Paper Presentations
   -- Brian Lynch
   -- Andrew DeVine
   -- Mark Wissmueller
Schroff et al.(2008)
Pan et al.(2010)
Ballendat et al.(2010)


4/18/11 Project Updates



4/20/11 Paper Presentations
   -- Jeff Cashion
   -- Kris Rivera
   -- Stephen Raabe
Burigat et al.(2007)
Rivera(2010)
Ashbrook et al.(2010)


4/25/11 Project Updates



4/27/11 Paper Presentations
   -- Jonathan Poock
   -- Zhengkai Wu
   -- Ed Cestona
Klein et al.(2007)
Oskiper et al.(2011)
Jacobs et al.(2011)


5/2/11 Final Project Demo Day!!