Designing For Multimodality

Course News

The deadline for the final report has been extended to Tuesday 4th January at 4.30pm These should be submitted to either Murray (murray.crease@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) or Jo (jo.lumsden@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) or handed in at the front desk of the NRC building. This differs from the original handout which stipulated a deadline of Monday 3rd January.

Course Outline – Fall Term 2004

Course Objective: At the end of this course students should have a good understanding of the many different issues that are related to the design of multimodal systems. A multimodal system is an interactive system that allows a user to interact using different input and/or output techniques (or modalities). Examples of such modalities are gesture input and haptic feedback. Topics covered include the fundamental concepts behind multimodal interaction; context and its impact on multimodal systems; user interface architectures; knowledge elicitation and modelling; multimodal design and experimental design.

Time M, W 10:00 – 12:00

Room NRC Training Room, 46 Dineen Drive

Instructor Dr. Murray Crease & Dr. Jo Lumsden

Office NRC 257 & NRC 229

Office Hours By appointment via email.

E-mail murray.crease@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca, jo.lumsden@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Course Web Site http://www.humanweb.ca/teaching/cs6905

Prerequisites Instructor discretion. Student numbers limited to 12.

Textbook(s) No prescribed course text. Course materials will be made available on the course website.

Marking Scheme Team Assessments 20%

Student Presentations 20%

Practical 30%

Final Report 30%

Project(s) The course will require the submission of 4 team assignments on different stages in the construction of a multimodal system. The mark achieved for each assignment will not, however, depend upon the quality of any previous assignment. A final, individual report will also have to be submitted. This report should summarise the work undertaken on the four assignments and, in particular, should describe what improvements could be made based – in part - on the feedback given by the instructors regarding the team assignments and the course material.

Each student will also be required to make a short presentation – with associated written material – to the class. These presentations will be in the form of mini-lectures with time set aside for questions. Marks will be awarded for the quality of presentation, quality of written report, knowledge of topic and interaction during other student’s presentations.

A practical session will take place on the week of 25^th October. This session will enable students to undertake a heuristic evaluation of a system provided by the instructors. Students will be expected to fill in a log with their findings and generate a short report summarising these findings.

Lab(s) There are no scheduled labs.

Tutorial N/A

Participation Although attendance is not monitored, poor attendance may impact negatively on your final grade. If you need to miss class for medical or other significant reasons, please let one of the instructors know.

Schedule An ongoing, in-depth schedule for the course is available at the course website.

Please Note: This schedule will be revised and updated as the term progresses. All information contained therein is subject to change. Students are advised to check the schedule at frequent intervals.

Teaching Schedule

Week Beg. (#)	Monday 10:00am – 12:00pm	Wednesday 10:00am – 12:00pm	Assignment : Hand Out Date, Hand In Date Return Date
27^th Sept (1)	General Introduction (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	Definitions/Scenarios (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts] Assignment [doc \| html]	Scenario: 29^th Sep, 13^th Oct, 18^th Oct.
4^th Oct (2)	User Interface Architectures (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	Low Level Context (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]
11^th Oct (3)	Interaction Paradigms (JL) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	High-Level User-Focused Context of Use (JL) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]
18^th Oct (4)	Knowledge Elicitation & Evaluation Techniques (JL) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts] Assignment [doc \| html]	Modelling and Architectures for Context Sensitivity and Multimodality (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	Architecture Design: 18^th Oct, 1^st Nov 8^th Nov
25^th Oct (5)	Practical [doc \| html]	No Class
1^st Nov (6)	Designing the Front End – A Concrete Example (JL) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts] Assignment [doc \| html]	Design Guidelines (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	Front End Design: 1^st Nov, 10^th Nov, 15^th Nov.
8^th Nov (7)	Experimental Design (JL) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	Toolkit Design (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts] Presentation Topics [doc \| html]	Presentation Topics
15^th Nov (8)	Multimodality Guidelines (JL) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts] Assignment [doc \| html]	Toolkit Design II – Input (MC) PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts]	Evaluation Design: 15^th Nov, 24^th Nov, 29^th Nov.
22^nd Nov (9)	Student Presentations 10.00 - Audio Interaction (Zheng ) 10.30 - Context Acquisition (Bernard)	Student Presentations 10.00 - Gestural Interaction (Weiwei) 10.30 - High Level Context (Megan) 11.00 - Transfer of Displays (Danny)	Full Schedule
29^th Nov (10)	Student Presentations 10.00 - Large, Public Displays (Beika) 10.30 - Evaluation Techniques (Aaron)	Question & Answer Session PowerPoint Slides PDF [colour \| printable \| handouts] Final Report [doc \| html]	Final Report: 1^st Dec, 4^th Jan 17^th Jan

Teaching Schedule

Toolkit Design (MC)