Master | Course | Jan ’21 – Apr ’21
Designing User Interfaces with Emerging Technologies
Type
Elective
Given by
Rong-Hao Liang
Team
Huizhong Ye
Daan Noordman
IN SHORT
This course introduced emerging user interface technologies that might impact the future generations of human-computer interaction (HCI) design. This elective offered a skillset of technical HCI research through design. Through a series of lectures and workshops, I got an overview of the emerging paradigms of natural user interface technologies in the ubiquitous computing era.
Through a series of assignments and lectures, we explored different emerging technologies and found new applications for them to impact society in a positive way. While doing this, we were challenged to think about the user perspective and hence think of a suitable interface to operate the technology. As final project of the course, we chose one emerging technology, researched and designed a new application for it and wrote a paper on it. This paper was published at TEI ‘22.
In this paper, we explored the application of NURBS forms as a possibility for remote co-creation and physical prototyping.
LEARNINGS
One of my learning goals going into this course was learning about different possibilities and applications for user interfaces, and how to evaluate them. By having this goal, I want to challenge myself to start using different methods besides visuals to communicate and explore UI’s in the design process.
The hands-on lab exercises allow me to build a solid basic technology and provide me with the confidence to start exploring the technology and finding new applications for it.
