CS 791 Multisensory Computing

Syllabus

Fall Semester, 2002

21 August 2002 version

Class meetings

4:00-7:00 Tuesdays

room 302 CERC/CRRB Building

Some sources of reading materials

Some reading assignments will be made from ICAD and PUG proceedings and from Joseph Kaye's thesis and related bibliography.

http://www.icad.org/

http://www.sensable.com/haptics/community/events.html

http://web.media.mit.edu/~jofish/thesis/reflist.html

Other papers may be assigned as well.

Instructor

Frances L. Van Scoy

fvanscoy@wvu.edu

304-293-LANEx4181

G11B CERC/CRRB (Concurrent Engineering Research Center / Chestnut Ridge Research Building 886 Chestnut Ridge Road)

Office hours: 7th floor student lounge ESB 1:00-1:45 Tuesdays and Thursdays

lobby of MER building 3:15-3:45 Thursdays

or by appointment

Grading

description

due date

grade %

one page "reflections"

each class August 27-November 19

24

annotated bibliography

September 24

6

term project/paper

November 19

25

oral presentation

December 3

5

midterm exam (take home)

October 22

20

final exam

December 11

20

 

Class Meetings

 

Date

Topic

Reading Assignment

Assignment Due

1.

August 20

Introduction to Multi-Sensory Computing

   

2.

August 27

Mathematics of Shapes; Physics of Colors

   

3.

September 3

Physiology and Psychology of Sight

   

4.

September 10

Vision-Based Modeling

   

5.

September 17

Music Theory; Physics of Sound

selected ICAD proceedings papers

 

6.

September 24

Physiology and Psychology of Sound

 

annotated bibliography

7.

October 1

Sound-Based Modeling

   

8.

October 8

Touch

selected PUG proceedings papers

 

9.

October 15

Physiology and Psychology of Touch

   

10.

October 22

Touch-Based Modeling

 

midterm exam (take home)

11.

October 29

Smell

Joseph Kaye's thesis

 

12.

November 5

Taste

   
 

November 12

no class - Election Day

   

13.

November 19

Immersive Environments

 

term project

 

November 26

no class - Thanksgiving Week

   

14.

December 3

Student presentations

 

oral presenetation

 

8am, Wednesday, December 11

Final Exam

 

final exam

 

Course Objectives

be able to build computer systems which provide multisensory stimuli

be able to design and evaluate a human factors experiment

know some open research questions in multisensory computing