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bos.gifMedia Lab, Room 395
bos.gifDepartment of Media
bos.gifSchool of Art and Design
bos.gifAalto University


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Physical Interaction Design course aims to familiarize students with practices that provide designing new ways of interactions between humans through digital environments. This course makes it possible for students to experience experimental interaction with sensor technologies where the data is achieved throughout the participant's natural expressive gestures and processed through computer.

PID course introduces physical interaction design in New Media works with microcontroller and sensor technologies. The course explores multimodal interaction practices where they adapt physical interaction to daily life applications and contemporary art works. The course also introduces artistic strategies, structures and methodologies for the creation of interactive installations, physical media/image/sound projects and for the creation of experimental musical instruments. Course will be taught using the Pure Data and Arduino open-source environments. Physical Interaction Design course is a project-based course. At the end of the course, students will submit and present their projects. If it will be possible with the schedule, there will be also a public performance organized for the students to perform and exhibit their course works

The course consists of lectures, exercises and group/individual project works.

 
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bos.gif23 - 26.11.2010

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bos.gifCourse overview
bos.gifwhat is Interaction?
bos.gifPhysical Interaction
bos.gifEmbodied Interaction
bos.gifFeature Extraction
bos.gifSensing the world
bos.gifElectronics for sensors
bos.gifhands on PureData + Arduino exercises




bos.gif30.11 - 03.12.2010

bos.gifturning real world data into something
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bos.gifObjects and Connections
bos.gifpduino and physical
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bos.gifAudio Analysis
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bos.gif07-10.12.2010

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GRADING

20% class participation/reading

10% assignments

70% project

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SOFTWARE

You can download Pd-extended from http://puredata.info/downloads Pd-vanilla from http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html and Arduino software http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

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READINGS - Text Book

Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative applications and Devices
by Dan Saffer

Designing Sound by Andy Farnell

Machine Musicianship by Robert Rowe

Handmade Electronic Music:The art of Hardware Hacking
by Nicolas Collins

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STUDENT LIST

Niinimäki Matti Tapani

Iyer Anusha

Aro Vuokko Saara Anniina

Hinomizu Satoko

Magica Reina

Dromey Benjamin Liam

Menon Ranjit Gopakumar

Knappe Niko Kristoffer

Jalanka Helena Maria

Santasalo Juho Tapani

Mukhopadhyay Palash

Sonawane Dipti

Sillanpää Heikki Pentti Eemil

Lai Chi-Hsia

Sen Ferhat