Practical Course: Advanced Tangible Light

Lecturers: Prof. Hussmann
Persons in Charge: Amy Yanhong Li, Thomas Weber, Beat Rossmy
Hours per week: 2
Language: English
ECTS-Credits: 3 (BSc) / 6 (MSc)
Modul: Projektkompetenz Multimedia (BSc) / Gruppenpraktikum (MSc)

• Dates and Locations
• Contents
• Application
• Schedule

Dates and Locations

• Dates: Monday, 2 pm - 4 pm
• Location : TBD

Contents

In this course, participants will develop a tangible light to facilitate the group process (discussion and collaboration) in the classroom. We have opened the "Practical Course Tangible light" in the Summer Semester 2020 and got good feedback from students. "Advanced Tangible Light" will build on top of the prototypes from that semester. We will provide some ideas for group process you might want to support with your solution, such as peer instruction, community-supported worksheets, community problem creation, participatory problems or other patterns. However, you can build on your own idea as well.

Accepted students will work on the following tasks:

1. understand the above group process ideas in the classroom,
2. create conceptual ideas about how tangible light can be designed to support these group processes,
3. design and implement the design concept as a physical prototype (we will provide all necessary tools and materials).

This class will have about 5 groups and each group consists of 4 students. Accepted students will form the group at the beginning. Cooperation between students from different majors is recommended. All groups will work on these group process ideas.

Application

Interested Master students can apply for this practical course via the Uni2Work central registration process until October 25^th 2020. Interested KUMM students can apply for this practical course via email until October 20^th 2020.

Applicants have to include the following information:

• Briefly describe your motivation for participation in this course.
• Describe relevant expertise, for example from previous courses, research projects or jobs. If possible, please also demonstrate your skills in tangible interaction design and computer programming. In the meantime, it will be helpful to self-rate your knowledge in these areas on a scale from 1 (no prior knowledge) to 5 (expert knowledge).

Participants will be selected based on this information, and not based on the time of application. Nevertheless, if interested, please apply as early as possible! We will send a confirm email to you as soon as possible.

Schedule

Please note that this is a preliminary schedule and there will be further regular meetings besides the ones listed below! The majority of meetings will be held online via Zoom.

• Nov. 9^th 2020: Kick-Off
• Nov. 16^th 2020: Concept Introduction
• Nov. 23^rd 2020: Technology Tutorial
• Nov. 30^th 2020: Meeting with Tutor: Analysis of Design Ideas
• Dec. 21^st 2020: Concept Presentation
• Early Jan. 2020: Meeting with Tutor: Implementation Progress
• Jan. 11^th 2021: Intermediate Presentation
• Jan. 25^th 2021: Meeting with Tutor: Prototype Improvement
• Feb. 8^th 2021: Final presentation