Course Learning Outcomes

• Engage in collaborative and discursive research practices within the field of human-centered computing.
• Develop a deep understanding of state-of-the-art research in various HCI topics, including access computing, physical computing, haptics, Human-AI interaction, and more.
• Critically evaluate the contributions, limitations, and gaps in current research and articulate their findings through class presentations.
• Collaborate with peers to select, study, and present research papers relevant to technical HCI domains, and deliver a clear, persuasive oral presentation of their research proposal, effectively pitching their vision to the class.
• Identify compelling research questions and justify their significance in the context of the course themes and the broader HCI field.
• Explore and understand the design principles, challenges, and societal implications of human-centered computing, such as mobile computing, AR/VR/XR, assistive technology, and privacy/security.
• Develop skills in technical writing and academic communication, and produce well-structured research proposals.

Class Schedule, Lecture Slides, Reading

Week 1: Course Intro
Week 2: Snow day. No class.

Week 3: Interaction Design & Prototyping

• Forming interactivity: a tool for rapid prototyping of physical interactive products (2002). Avrahami & Hudson. [link]
• Reflective Physical Prototyping through Integrated Design, Test, and Analysis (2006). Hartmann et al. [link]
• Making Multiple Uses of the Obscura 1C Digital Camera: Reflecting on the Design, Production, Packaging and Distribution of a Counterfunctional Device. (2015). Pierce & Paulos [link]
• *Additional readings:
  SmartSkin: An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulation on Interactive Surfaces (2002) [link]
  
  

• Phidgets: Easy Development of Physical Interfaces through Physical Widgets (2001). Greenberg & Fitchett. [link]
• Crafting Technology: Reimagining the Processes, Materials, and Cultures of Electronics (2012). Buechley and Perner-Wilson. [link]
• Sprayable User Interfaces: Prototyping Large-Scale Interactive Surfaces with Sensors and Displays. (2020). Wessely et al. [link]

• The Design of Eco-Feedback Technology (2010). Froehlich et al. [link]
• E3D: Harvesting Energy from Everyday Kinetic Interactions Using 3D Printed Attachment Mechanisms. (2023). Arabi et al. [link]
• InteractOut: Leveraging Interaction Proxies as Input Manipulation Strategies for Reducing Smartphone Overuse. (2024). Lu et al. [link]

• OmniTouch: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere. (2011). Harrison et al. [link]
• Wearability Factors for Skin Interfaces (2016). Liu et al. [link]
• FaceBit: Smart Face Masks Platform. (2020). Hofmann et al. [link]
• *Additional readings: Synthetic Sensors: Towards General-Purpose Sensing (2017). Latput et al. [link]

• SpaceSense: Representing Geographical Information to Visually Impaired People Using Spatial Tactile Feedback. (2012). Yatani et al. [link]
• Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design (2023). Hoffman et al. [link]
• GenAssist: Making Image Generation Accessible (2023). Huh et al. [link]
• *Additional readings: Situationally Aware Mobile Devices for Overcoming Situational Impairments (2019). Jacob O. Wobbrock [link]

• The World Through the Computer: Computer Augmented Interaction with Real World Environments. (1995). Rekimoto and Nagao. [link]
• XRtic: A Prototyping Toolkit for XR Applications using Cloth Deformation (2022). Muthukumarana et al. [link]
• Hand Interfaces: Using Hands to Imitate Objects in AR/VR for Expressive Interactions. (2022). Pei et al. [link]

• Impacto: Simulating Physical Impact by Combining Tactile Stimulation with Electrical Muscle Stimulation. (2015). Lopes et al. [link]
• Grabity: A Wearable Haptic Interface for Simulating Weight and Grasping in Virtual Reality (2017). Choi et al. [link]
• Tacttoo: A Thin and Feel-Through Tattoo for On-Skin Tactile Output. (2018). Withana et al. [link]

• Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden. (2008) Consolvo et al. [link]
• Touch & Activate: Adding Interactivity to Existing Objects using Active Acoustic Sensing. (2013) Ono et al. [link]
• SeamPose: Repurposing Seams as Capacitive Sensors in a Shirt for Upper-Body Pose Tracking (2024). Yu et al. [link]
• Duet: Exploring Joint Interactions on a Smart Phone and a Smart Watch (2014). Chen et al. [link]
• Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments (2024). Liu et al. [link]
• Elastica: Adaptive Live Augmented Presentations with Elastic Mappings Across Modalities. (2024). Cao et al. [link]

• The Effect of Social Influence on Security Sensitivity. (2014). Das et al. [link]
• The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design. (2018). Gray et al. [link]
• What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review. (2023). Zhang et al. [link]
• *Additional Reading: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks (2025). Lee at al. [link]

• You Are Where You Tweet: A Content-Based Approach to Geo-locating Twitter Users. (2010). Cheng et al. [link]
• Modeling and Understanding Human Routine Behavior. (2016) Banovic et al. [link]
• Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (2023). Park et al. [link]

• VizWiz: Nearly Real-time Answers to Visual Questions. (2010). Bigham et al. [link]
• How Video Production Affects Student Engagement: An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos. (2014). Guo et al. [link]
• Who Broke Amazon Mechanical Turk? An Analysis of Crowdsourcing Data Quality over Time (2023). Marshall et al. [link]