SPRING 2005
CS377A: Mobile Interaction
Tuesdays 1:30-4:00, Wallenberg 124
Scott
Klemmer, 384 Gates
Office Hours: Fridays 2:00-3:00PM
TA: Brian Lee,
396 Gates
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-2:00PM, and by appointment
Course Email: cs377a-mobile at cs dot stanford dot edu
Course Newsgroup: su.class.cs377a
Projects · See abstracts and results of the student course projects. |
In five to seven years, mobile "phones" will have gigahertz processors and a gigabyte of memory. First and foremost, mobile devices are for communication. The original "killer app" for small, mobile devices was telephony. Text messaging has become the second killer app. Smartphones are beginning to take off, mobile applications have been demonstrated in research and are beginning to appear commericially. However, even with Moore's law, conservation of matter still holds. A mobile device--even a gigahertz one--must be able to fit in a pocket. This provides an intrinsic constraint on the amount of real estate available for controls and displays. This course will address social science research on mobility, novel input and display techniques, multimodal interaction, location and context computing, infrastructural support, and mobile-appropriate techniques for user observation and experimentation. Students will be graded primarily on a quarter-long project of their own choosing (there are no exams). I strongly encourage students to work in pairs, and to choose projects that are related to their own research. The final paper should be four pages long in the CHI format. Students in this course are encouraged to attend CS547, the HCI seminar, on Fridays from 12:30 - 2:00.
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