Exercise 1 - Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion 1 (MMI 1)
Wintersemester 2008/09

Exercise 1 - MMI 1

Topic: Researching

1. Lecture

a) Summary

Write a short summary of the lecture on Motivation / History of HCI research as held by Prof. Hußmann in the winter term 2006/07. The summary should be between 100 and 200 words. Focus on the core topics.

b) Further questions (~100 words)

1. What is the problem with the elevator buttons at the DFKI? How would you arrange the button panel for the Empire State Building? (Optional: How are they actually arranged?)
2. Often it takes many years for university research to reach our everyday lives. What do you think are the reasons?

2. Researching

Scientific research is subject to fashions. Pick one of the following topics:

Usability - Multi-Touch Interfaces - Virtual Reality - Augmented Reality - Context Awareness - Multi-Modal User Interfaces - Haptic/Tactile User Interfaces - Multi-Display Environments - Text Entry - Touch Screens

... and do the following research:

• Write a short description of the topic (~5 sentences)
  
• When was the topic first mentioned in scientific research?
• How did scientific interest change over time?
• How did popular interest change over time?
• Mention two or three very influential publications and summarize them (~ 5 sentences each)
  

Write a short report of about 2-4 pages. It should contain aggregated data, a short analysis, and a description of the methods you used to collect the data. Illustrate your findings with graphs. Additionally, document all the sources you used and the raw data of your graphs in separate text files. You might have to present your report in the next tutorial.

Submission

Submit your solution via UniWorx.
Unless otherwise specified, all files have to be either Adobe PDF or UTF-8 plain text. All other files will be automatically deleted.
Please put all files concerning one task into a sub-folder inside the ZIP file.

Schema/Example:

./
     1/
          a/
                  summary.txt
         b/
                  further_questions.txt
       2/
          report.pdf
          raw_data.txt

Do not use any other directory layout.

Deadline: Monday, 20.10.2008, 09:00 (UTC+2)