Engineering Interactive Systems

Course Description: Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing systems allow users new ways to interact with computing devices beyond the traditional terminal, keyboard, and mouse. Often referred to as the third wave of computing, people are no longer using a single computer but instead are continuously interacting with multiple devices that are carried on their person and embedded throughout the environment. This interdisciplinary field focuses on creating novel interaction modalities, new ways of displaying information, and interactive sensing techniques that enable computers to detect, understand, and respond to users. This course focuses on both reviewing the state-of-the-art of interactive computing systems and the underlying technologies that enable them, as well as learning the skills necessary to build research prototypes.