Lecture Advanced Topics of HCI

Lecturer: Prof. Florian Alt
Hours per week: 2 Lecture + 2 Project
ECTS credits: 6 (Lecture + Project)
Modul e : Vertiefende Themen der Medieninformatik und Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion für Master
Target Group: Medieninformatik (Master), Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (Master)

• Dates and Locations
• News
• Course Overview
• Final Presentation
• Submission
• Course Material
  • Templates
  • Readings
• Lecture (tentative)
• Projects
  • Presentation Day

Dates and Locations

• Lecture:
  Date: Wednesday, 16-18h
  Location: Amalienstrasse 73A, Room 211
• Final Presentation:
  Date: 04 August 2017, 10-12h
  Location: Room A105 (Amalienstrasse 17)
• Final Paper Submission: 31 August 2017

News

• 18.05.2017: There's an (unofficial) channel on Slack for this course: #ath-ss17.
• 08.03.2017: Applications for the lecture are possible until 13th April via UniWorX. Note that the number of participants in this course will be limited.

Course Overview

The course "Advanced Topics in HCI" introduces foundations and current trends from different research areas in Human-Computer Interaction. Topics covered in the course include, but are not limited to, interactive surfaces, usable privacy and security, e-learning, brain-computer interfaces, eye tracking, and interaction with mobile devices (see below for the complete agenda).

The course consists of two parts:

• Lextures: All lectures will be held by the scientific staff of the LFE Medieninformatik. During these lectures, participants will receive an introduction to active research areas in HCI as well as to ongoing research projects in the department. The lectures also serve as a basis for the adjoint research project.
• Research Project: In parallel to the lecture, participants will work on scientific projects in groups of two (appr. 2 weeks full time commitment). The scientific staff will provide topics and supervise participants during the project work. All projects include a concept phase as well as an implementation and/or evaluation phase. Projects may also include data analysis. The outcome of each project will be documented in the form of a scientific paper. There will be no regular sessions for the project work - rather participants are expected to meet with their supervisors on a regular basis. All participants are expected to present their projects during a seminar at the end of the term. Presentations will be in the form of posters.

Final Presentation

The final presentation will be held in the form of a poster presentation. There will be two sessions, lasting 60 minutes each. In each session, half of the teams will present their work while the other course participants will take the role of the audience and engage in discussion with the presenting teams about their projects.

Each session will start with a 1-minute madness, where each group will pitch their project in 60 seconds (hard time limit!). Groups are expected to design one slide that needs to be submitted via Uniworx until 01.08.2017 and that will be shown during the madness slot. You can use the template below or use your own design. As for the presentation: be creative! The goal is to make as many people be interested in your work as possible.

Following the madness session, there will be approximately 45 minutes of poster presentations. Posters are expected to be in DIN A1 portrait format (examples in the slides and under "Course Material") and need to be setup prior to the madness session (poster walls will be provided). The poster should support the discussion of the project and outcomes with other course members and the invited staff of the LFE Medieninformatik. Posters are expected to be uploaded through Uniworx on or before 01.08.2017. We will take care of printing your posters.

Submission

Reports on your research projects need to be submitted using either of two templates - the SIGCHI Proceedings format (4 pages excl. references) or the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (6 pages excl. references). Please check back with your supervisor, which format to use! Templates in LaTeX or Word can be downloaded below.

Course Material

Templates

The following templates are to be used for the project.

• Template for scientific paper (SIGCHI Proceedings Format): Word, LaTeX
• Template for scientific paper (SIGCHI Extended Abstract Format): Word, LaTeX
• Template for madness poster: Powerpoint / Keynote
• Example for a poster: poster_sample1.pdf, poster_sample2.pdf

Readings

Participation in the course requires a basic understanding of scientific working. Optimally, students attended the course "Scientific Working and Teaching (SWAL)" .

• "How to present scientific work"
• "How to write a scientific paper" (slides from SWAL)
• "How to give a scientific presentation" (slides from SWAL)
• "How to review a scientific paper" (slides from SWAL)
• Oates, Briony J. Researching information systems and computing. Sage, 2005.

Lecture (tentative)

Date	Presenter	Topic	Slides
26.04.2017	Florian Alt	Introduction / Distributing Topics	slides
17.05.2017	Tobias Seitz	Making Passwords More Usable	slides
24.05.2017	Mohamed Khamis	Usable Gaze-based Interaction	slides
31.05.2017	Bastian Pfleging	Automotive User Interfaces	slides
07.06.2017	Axel Hösl	Understanding and Designing for Control in Camera Operation	slides
14.06.2017	Daniel Ullrich	Human-Robot Interaction	slides
21.06.2017	Ceenu George / Christian Mai / Martin Rademacher, Sylvia Rothe	Virtual Reality	slides
28.06.2017	Florian Alt	Pervasive Displays - Understanding the Future of Digital Signage	slides
05.07.2017	Maria Fysaraki	Computer supported collaborative learning: the case of learning management systems	slides
12.07.2017	Daniel Buschek	Computational Mobile HCI	slides
19.07.2017	Mariam Hassib	Brain-Computer Interfaces	slides
26.07.2017	Malin Eiband	The Past, Present and Future of AI	slides

Projects

Presentation Day

Time	Event
09:45-10:00	Group 1: Hang up posters System-to-User Communication (Maximilian Meyer, Sabine Kaupp, Zhan Yifei) WatchOut - A Road Safety Extension for Pedestrians on a Public Windshield Display (Matthias Geiger, Changkun Ou, Cedric Quintes) Prototyping in VR: Are 3D better suited than 2D Storyboards when prototyping for VR applications? (Patrik Goncalves, Maximilian Rettinger) Persuasive Patterns in Password Managers (Anabelle Bockwoldt, Dimitri Reisler, Julia Speckmeier) Robots as Role Models for Human Behavior (Martin Kraft, Maurice Rang, Daniel Mihaila) Password Blur - A user-friendly approach for secure password input (Alice Nguyen, Leonhard Mertl, Mario Schneller, Li Zhe)
10:00-10:10	Group 1: One-Minute Madness
10:10-10:45	Group 1: Poster Presentations
10:45-11:00	Break / Group 2: Hang up posters Hidden Pursuits - Detecting Pursuits when gazing at Objects with Partially Hidden Trajectories (Thomas Mattusch, Mahsa Mirzamohammad) Mental Models of Personalization (Sophia Cook, Vanessa Niedermeier, Roman Schader, Cara Storath) Collaborative Facilities in Learning Management Systems (Fuad Philip Soudah) Can you trust me? (Sandro Gauss, Sarah Muser, Daniela Paulescu, Barbara Schindler) You can observe, but you cannot see - shoulder surfing attacks in virtual reality (David Heuss, Philipp Janssen, Nicole Lippner, Katharina Schwarz) Brain@Work using Muse (Judith Mosandl, Kübra Ipekcioglu, Maria-Lena Bittl, Veronika Fuchsberger)
11:00-11:10	Group 2: One-Minute Madness
11:10-11:45	Group 2: Poster Presentations