COMM-6965-01

Friday 10-12pm, 4304 Sage

COMM-6965: Topics in HCI: Daylight Design Tools

(courtesy M. Anderson)
Dr. Dan Glaser
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Language, Literature, and Communication

Dr. Barb Cutler
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science





Course Description:
Graduate and undergraduate students enrolling in this interdisciplinary seminar will engage in prototyping technologies for architectural lighting design. There are many aspects to designing a tool: aesthetics, efficiency, usability, scientific (building) relevance, its "fun-factor", and history, among others. Students in the course will learn about each from instructors with different disciplinary backgrounds and engage in a suitable, group project. For example these may be:

  • LL&C, EMAC and IT: designing and evaluating complex user interfaces.
  • Computer Science: using, studying, and extending existing software and algorithms for high-quality global illumination rendering and adapting these algorithms to graphics hardware.
  • Architecture: critical examination of studio tools, prototyping analytic or 'fun' artifacts, lighting design, green buildings
  • other students across campus.
There are no prerequisites for this course. (3 units)

Readings:

Week 2. Information Visualization



Card, S. K., Mackinlay, J. & Shneiderman, B. (Eds.): Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1999). Please only read pages 1-13 (stopping before Visualization Levels of Use)

(optional reading)
Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional vision. American Anthropologist, 96(3), 606--633

(optional reading)
The Value of Visualization. van Wijk, In: C. Silva, E. Groeller, H. Rushmeier (eds.), Proc. IEEE Visualization 2005, p. 79-86, 2005.

Week 3.
  Group Theory

Hollan, et. al., Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(2):174--196, June 2000.

(optional reading)
Christine Halverson Activity Theory and Distributed Cognition: Or What Does CSCW Need to DO with Theories? CSCW 11, 243-275.

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