Schedule Up To Midterm Break

Date	Lecture	Reading	Labs/Assignments/Exams
9/15, Mon. First Class	Overview of Class Interface Introduction (after Bill Verplank) Design of Input Devices (by Zhai) Fitts' Law (the one theory in HCI??)	<--Notes and Fitts 1954	Assignment 1, Due Mon., Sept. 22th Working with computers: Observe, Sketch, Think, Improve, Write-Up
9/17, Wed.	CASE STUDY: THE MOUSE How it Works More about MEECE and the Optical Mouse A nice interview with Doug Engelbart Verplank, Oliver on Mouse Useability Design	<--Notes	Lab #1: Input Devices: Human Factors Due Monday, September 29 (Read about a good lab report here)
9/22, Mon.	Basic Physics Overview/Intro Basic Electronics Intro/Overview Ohm's Law (REALLY a Law)	<--Notes	Assignment 1 due
9/24, Wed.	Principles of Sensors, Resistors, Capacitors, More Capacitance Law (Faraday) Inductance Law (Faraday, Henry (Princeton))	<--Notes	Lab #2: Input Devices: Resistive Sensors Due Monday, October 6
9/29, Mon.	Principles of Sensors, Resistors, Capacitors, More	<--Notes	Lab 1 Due Today
10/1, Wed.	CASE STUDIES: THEREMIN, BIOMUSE & RADIO BATON Theremin Video BioMuse Video Radio Baton Video George Miller's Magical Number of 7 +/- 2 Signal Conditioning / Preprocessing / Data Acquisition	<--Notes and Miller 1956	Assignment 2, 7 +/- 2 Due Monday, October 13
10/6 Mon.	SPECIAL:: Shaping the Future with Technology Craig Mundie, CRSO Microsoft	Dodds, Robertson 1:00-2:00	Lab #3: Piezo and Capacitive Sensors Due Wednesday, October 15
10/8, Wed.	User input via Eye Tracking Some on Faces in General The World of BioMetrics	<--Notes	*** Lab 2 Due ***
10/13, Mon.	Isometric/Isotonic/Rate/Velocity control mapping Muscle Groups, 6-DOF Input Control Psychophysical Measurements: Weber's Law, Fechner's Law, Steven's Law	<--Notes and Zhai 1998	*** Assignment 2 Due ***
10/15, Wed.	Haptics at the User Interface Steering and Steering with Haptics Sensory Substitution	<--Notes	*** Lab 3 Due *** Assignment 3 Due Wednesday October 22
10/20, Mon.	CASE STUDY: MIDI Serial I/O, MIDI Auditory Display	<--Notes	.
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10/22, Wed.	Sound Synthesis 3-D Audio ... Kemar ... HEAD ... MTB	<--Notes	*** Assignment 3 Due *** Initial Project Proposal/Ideas!! Due November 5
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