Practical Course Media Design

Lecturers: Prof. Butz
Person in Charge:Jingyi Li, Sarah Theres Völkel
Hours per week: 4
ECTS credits: 3 (BSc)
Modul:Projektkompetenz Multimedia (BSc)

Dates and Locations

• Date: Wednesday, 12:00 - 14:00 c.t.
• Location: virtual courses (and possibly at Frauenlobstr. 7a for implementation)

Contents

In this course, students will learn about information visualisation (IV) and automotive ambient IV concepts in academia and industry. Participants will work in groups, develop IV concepts of vehicle states, and implement in automotive user interfaces (UIs). The course topic focuses on the question of how to use ambient visualizations to subtly communicate various vehicle states to drivers or passengers and alleviate motion sickness at the same time?

The course is expected to mainly take place online for the concept phase in the year 2020. The following implementation phase in the year 2021, only if the COVID-19 circumstance allows them and students want to, might take place physically at Frauenlobstr. 7a. Accepted students will work on the following tasks (tentative):
1) analyse and select one design pattern for IV concepts;
2) creating IV concepts of vehicle states based on the selected design pattern;
3) and implementing the concept with arduino, projection, virtual reality, etc.
More information will be announced and confirmed soon. Please check this page regularly for updates.

This PMG course is designed to hold around 5 groups and each group consists of 4-5 students. Accepted students will form the group at the beginning. Each group will work on its own different design pattern within the area described above.

Preliminary Schedule

Please note that this is a preliminary schedule and there will be further changes of course content and format.

• 04.11.2020: Course Introduction at LMU
• 11.11.2020: Concept Development: Design Thinking & Brainstorming
• 18.11.2020: Tutorial: Information Visualisation I
• Tutorial I Material
  
• 25.11.2020: Tutorial: Information Visualisation II
• Tutorial II Material
  
• 02.12.2020: Guest Talk: Concept Process Breakdown of Automotive Ambient IV
• 09.12.2020: Meeting with Tutor: Group Discussion
• 16.12.2020: Concept Presentation
• 23.12.2020: Meeting with Tutor: Optional Supervision & Discussion (Christmas Theme)
• 13.01.2021: Guest Talk: Implementation Process Breakdown of Automotive Ambient IV
• 20.01.2021: VR Tutorial
• 27.01.2021: Meeting with Tutor: Setup Testing
• 03.02.2021: Meeting with Tutor: Setup Testing
• 10.02.2021: Final Presentation
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  *** Final documentation must be handed in via Uni2Work before 17.02.2021.
  

Interested Bachelor students can apply for this practical course via the Uni2Work central registration process until 01.11.2020. Applications have to include the following information:

• Describe relevant expertise, for example from previous courses, jobs and other projects, if any, that demonstrate your skills in one or more of the following areas: IV, UI design, interaction design, 3D modeling, video editing, programming. Please also self-rate your knowledge in each of these areas on a scale from 1 (no prior knowledge) to 5 (expert knowledge).
• Briefly describe your motivation for participation in this course.

Participants will be selected based on this information, and not based on time of application. Nevertheless, if interested, please apply as early as possible!