This course is the Spring 2022 ver­sion of IAT 884, taught by Dr. Bernhard Riecke at Simon Fraser University.

 Topic

The course covers the his­tor­i­cal and cur­rent research agenda for a broad­ly defined class of com­pu­ta­tion­al sys­tems, known as Tangible Computing or TEI (Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction), that include user inter­faces, inter­ac­tion approach­es and com­pu­ta­tion­al sys­tems that empha­size the tan­gi­bil­i­ty and mate­ri­al­i­ty of the inter­face, phys­i­cal embod­i­ment of data, hands-on and/or whole body inter­ac­tion, and the embed­ding of com­pu­ta­tion in real spaces, objects and con­texts. Tangible com­put­ing spans a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines includ­ing human-com­put­er inter­ac­tion and inter­ac­tion design, and uti­lizes inter­ac­tive tech­nolo­gies includ­ing sens­ing sys­tems, actu­a­tors, micro­con­trollers and/or hybrid phys­i­cal-dig­i­tal and/or mul­ti­modal displays.

The course is designed as a con­tent area course for stu­dents inter­est­ed in the design, pro­to­typ­ing and eval­u­a­tion of tan­gi­ble com­put­ing sys­tems. It will not cover mobile devices or large dis­play environments.

Aims
The course has two main aims:

1. To famil­iar­ize stu­dents with and help them crit­i­cal­ly ana­lyze the his­to­ry, foun­da­tions, agen­das, issues, research meth­ods and cur­rent and crit­i­cal research projects and papers in the broad­ly defined area of tan­gi­ble, embod­ied and embed­ded computing.
2. To pro­vide the oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op hands-on tech­ni­cal skills in pro­to­typ­ing simple sensor, actu­at­ed or camera vision based tan­gi­ble com­put­ing sys­tems in order to explore simple, top­i­cal research questions.

see here and here for more details about the course in general.

Student Projects

Below are videos of the amaz­ing projects the stu­dents cre­at­ed this semester: