Syllabus

 WEEK 1
25 Aug Material as Technology, Technology as Material
Lecture: Introduction to DET
Activity: Design Matrix + Time Capsule
Assignment: FA01: Hack This Assignment (due 30 aug)

 WEEK 2
30 Aug ENCOUNTERING Vision
Lecture: Encountering Perception as a Creative Material
Critique: FA01
Readings

Qian Yang, Aaron Steinfeld, Carolyn Rosé, and John Zimmerman. 2020. Re-examining Whether, Why, and How Human-AI Interaction Is Uniquely Difficult to Design. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13.

Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable (Introduction pages 1–8 and Chapter 2 Cognifying pages 29–41)

Caroline Chan Shiry Ginosar Tinghui Zhou and Alexei A. Efros Everybody Dance Now, ArXiv preprint, 2018. (more info)

Reed Albergotti, "He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?" Washington Post, 12 August 2021. (optional)

01 Sep ENCOUNTERING Vision
Expert: Dr. Shiry Ginosar
Assignment: FA02: Encountering Paik (due 13 sep)
Field Trip: Friday 3 Sept @ 2 PM to SFMOMA • Nam June Paik

 WEEK 3
06 Sep  Labor Day
No Class

08 Sep MATERIALIZING Vision
Lecture: Intro to Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Vision and OpenCV with Python
Assignment: Provocation 01 (due 22 sep)

 WEEK 4
13 Sep DESIGNING Vision
Critique: FA02
Worksession

15 Sep DESIGNING Vision
Lecture: How to Present
Worksession

 WEEK 5
20 Sep DESIGNING Vision
Worksession

22 Sep CRITIQUING Vision
Critique: Provocation 01

 WEEK 6
27 Sep ENCOUNTERING Augmentation
Lecture: Encountering Augmentation as a Creative Material: Haptics, Sensory Feedback, and Designing XR Experiences
Assignment: FA03 Public (due 4 oct)
Readings:

Lev Manovich. 2006. The poetics of augmented space. Visual Communication 5, 2 (2006), 219–240.

Jaron Lanier. 2017. Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality (1st ed.). Henry Holt, New York, NY, USA. (Chapter 15 Be Your Own Pyramidion (About Visual Displays for VR), pp. 192–208.)

Carl DiSalvo, Jonathan Lukens, Thomas Lodato, Tom Jenkins, and Tanyoung Kim. 2014. Making public things: how HCI design can express matters of concern. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2397–2406

Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Gabriella Giannachi, Brendan Walker, Joe Marshall, and Tom Rodden. 2012. Uncomfortable interactions. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2005–2014.

29 Sep ENCOUNTERING Augmentation
Expert: Vedant Saran, AR/VR Applications Engineer,  Apple

 WEEK 7
04 Oct MATERIALIZING Augmentation
Lecture: Introduction to Unity and Augmented Technologies
Assignment: Provocation 02 (due 27 oct)

06 Oct MATERIALIZING Augmentation
Lecture: Introduction to Unity and Augmented Technologies (Part 2)

 WEEK 8
11 Oct DESIGNING Augmentation
Worksession

13 Oct DESIGNING Augmentation
Worksession

 WEEK 9
18 Oct DESIGNING Augmentation
Worksession

20 Oct DESIGNING Augmentation
Worksession

 WEEK 10
25 Oct DESIGNING Augmentation
Worksession

27 Oct DESIGNING Augmentation
Worksession

 WEEK 11
01 Oct CRITIQUING Augmentation
Critique: Provocation 02

03 Nov ENCOUNTERING The Body
Lecture: Encountering The Body as Material

 WEEK 12
08 Nov ENCOUNTERING The Body
Readings:

van Dongen, Pauline & Wakkary, Ron & Tomico, Oscar & Wensveen, Stephen. (2019). Towards a Postphenomenological Approach to Wearable Technology through Design Journeys. 10.17028/rd.lboro.9724649.v1.

Maas Goudswaard, Abel Abraham, Bruna Goveia da Rocha, Kristina Andersen, and Rong-Hao Liang. 2020. FabriClick: Interweaving Pushbuttons into Fabrics Using 3D Printing and Digital Embroidery. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 379–393. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395569 

Ling, Y., An, T., Yap, L. W., Zhu, B., Gong, S., & Cheng, W. (2020). Disruptive, soft, wearable sensors. Advanced Materials, 32(18), 1904664.

Laura Devendorf, Joanne Lo, Noura Howell, Jung Lin Lee, Nan-Wei Gong, M. Emre Karagozler, Shiho Fukuhara, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, and Kimiko Ryokai. 2016. "I don't Want to Wear a Screen": Probing Perceptions of and Possibilities for Dynamic Displays on Clothing. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 6028–6039.

10 Nov DESIGNING The Body
Worksession

 WEEK 13
15 Nov DESIGNING The Body
Worksession
17 Nov DESIGNING The Body
Worksession

 WEEK 14
22 Nov DESIGNING The Body
Worksession

24 Nov THANKSGIVING
No Class

 WEEK 15
29 Nov DESIGNING The Body
Worksession
01 Dec DESIGNING The Body
Worksession

 FINAL CRITIQUE
07 Dec Tue of RRR Week • FINAL CRITIQUE
Final Presentations location TBA
10 Dec Fri of RRR Week • MDES SHOWCASE
Final materials due on 15 Dec by 11:59pm
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