IFD:MasterprojectSS17

Projektmodul
Title (alt): Advanced Mobile Interfaces
Lecturer(s): Michael Markert
Credits/SWS: 18 ECTS, 12 SWS
Maximum Number of Participants: 20
Course Language: English
Course Reading Schedule: VLVZ Eintrag
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, R104
First meeting: Do, 13. April 2017
Date:

• Thursdays, 9:15 to 12:00 h and
  
• Thursdays, 13:30 to ~18:00 h for Excursions (not every week, mandatory to all!)
  
• Tuesdays, 13:30 to 18:00 h for individual 30 min consultations
  

Description (EN)

Geolocalized Interfaces

We'll be working on interactions and interfaces that are related to specific places and locations, static or in movement.

You can either work on your own geolocalized project or join the Datenschleuder / Experimental Television team for an installation for ICE train passengers traveling from Jena to Naumburg.

In any case, we'll be looking at geolocalized interfaces and things that will only work if you or they are at a specific location.

Please note: because of the nature of the second part of our course with various field trips, the ending time will vary. We might also use the train and leave Weimar; sometimes we might only return in the evenings. Please do not enroll in this course if you have other appointments or obligations on Thursday afternoons. I will not accept students asking to join just one part of this project!

Description (DE)

Der Kurs findet auf Englisch statt, für weitere Informationen beachten Sie bitte den englischen Text.

Topics

• Mobile Networked Technologies, Connected Devices and the Internet of Things
• Location Based Data & Mobile User Interfaces
• Augmented Spaces
• Smartphone Sensors
• Spatial information, quality and organization of space
• Temporal aspects of space
• Navigation / Routing / Means of Transport
• Dérive and Getting Lost
• ...
• Mobile Web Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• Server-Side Technologies: PHP, Node.js, Websockets
• Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, OSC
• About Webapps, Hybrid Apps and Native Apps
• ...

Registration procedure / Anmeldung

Unfortunately, this project was not listed on the project election on April 4th due to an error in the course reading schedule. If you would like to visit, please register by E-Mail with michael (dot) markert (ät) uni-weimar (dot) de and come to the first meeting. Please send your name, faculty/study program and a short statement why you want to be in this course. If there are more than 18 students at the first meeting, there might be a kickoff evaluation with an acceptance based on the registration by E-Mail, the relevancy of your project and your engagement with other courses of the chair of Interface Design.

Evaluation / Geforderte Prüfungsleistung zur Erlangung eines Leistungsnachweises

1. Active participation (no more than two missed classes!)
2. At least two individual consultations (Tuesday afternoons)
3. Midterm assignment (required, even though the midterm grade is just for your information)
4. Presentation at the end of the lecture period, this includes presentations at our Interface Design ShowReel and during the Summaery
5. Final assignment at the end of the semester including documentation: Artistic examination (see Examination Regulations!)
6. Uploading your work in progress in our project collaboration tool, respecting deadlines

Eligible participants / Zielgruppe

Master students enrolled in the Faculties of Art and Design, Architecture, Media

Syllabus

1. 13.04.2017: First Meeting (subject to change!), Intro
2. 20:04.2017: Janet Cardiff, Cospeda
3. 27.04.2017: Exp Radio: Audio Walks, Ingress and Pokémon Go Erfurt
4. 04.05.2017: Location Technologies
5. 11.05.2017: no class
6. 18.05.2017: tba
7. 25.05.2017: no class, public holiday
8. 01.06.2017: Midterm Presentations
9. 08.06.2017: tba
10. 15.06.2017: tba
11. 22.06.2017: tba
12. 29.06.2017: tba
13. 06.07.2017: tba
14. 31.07.2017: Final Assignments

Literature

• Raumtheorie: Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, Jörg Dünne und Stephan Günzel (eds), Suhrkamp 2006, ISBN 9783518294000
  • René Descartes: Über die Prinzipien der Materiellen Dinge (1644)
  • Albert Einstein: Raum, Äther und Feld in der Physik (1930)
  • Martin Heidegger: Die Räumlichkeit des Daseins (1927)
  • Jacques Lacan: Die Topik des Imaginären (1954)
  • Vilém Flusser: Räume (1991)
  • Henri Lefebvre: Die Produktion des Raums (1974)
  • Michel de Certeau: Praktiken im Raum (1980)
  • Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari: Das Glatte und das Gekerbte (1980)
• Die Heterotopien, Michel Foucault, Suhrkamp 2005, ISBN 3518584286
• The Poetics of Augmented Space, Lev Manovich, Sage 2006 (first published 2002), http://www.alice.id.tue.nl/references/manovich-2006.pdf
• Theory of the Dérive, Guy Debord, Internationale Situationniste #2, 1958, http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/theory.html
• Space Oddity - Raumtheorie nach dem Spatial Turn, Martina Löw, 2015, http://www.sozialraum.de/space-oddity-raumtheorie-nach-dem-spatial-turn.php
• Topologie: Zur Raumbeschreibung in den Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften, Stephan Günzel (eds), transcript 2007, ISBN 9783899427103
• Media City: Situations, Practices and Encounters, Frank Eckardt (eds), Frank & Timme 2008, ISBN 9783865961822
  • Katharine Willis: Wayfinding Situations (2010)
• Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics, M. Foth (eds), Information Science Reference 2008
  • Katharine Willis & Jens Geelhaar: Information Places - Navigating Interfaces Between Physical and Digital Space
• Navi essen Orientierungssinn auf, Passig, K., 2014 ZEIT Online. Available at: http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2014-05/kathrin-passig-gps-navigationssystem/komplettansicht [Accessed July 4, 2014].
• Wegzeiger: zur Kulturgeschichte des Verirrens und Wegfindend, Martin Scharfe, Jonas-Verlag 1998, ISBN 3894452307
• Warum ist Landschaft schön? - Die Spaziergangswissenschaft (Promenadologie), Lucius Burkhardt, Schmitz 2006, ISBN 978-3927795426
  • Why is Landscape Beautiful? - The Science of Strollology, Lucius Burkhardt, Schmitz 2006, ISBN 978-3035604078,