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Course Catalog 2012-2013
YHTTAY-7196 Haptic User Interfaces, 5-8 cr |
Additional information
This course is organized as a part of IHTE unit at the Tampere University of Technology and TAUCHI Unit at University of Tampere Teaching Co-operation. The responsible unit is for the course is School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Tampere. Follow instructions on course registrations given by the University of Tampere, see more information at http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/studies/studying/JOO.html
Person responsible
Jarmo Palviainen, Teija Vainio
Requirements
Exam, assignments, and a paper or documented project work.
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
The course is an introduction to haptic user interface technology and haptic research in general. The topics of the course contain an introduction to human sense of touch, relation of touch, vision and hearing, haptics as a communication modality, haptic technologies, haptics in human-computer interaction, and haptic interfaces for the visually impaired. The course is based on the latest research on multimodal interfaces involving haptics.
Learning outcomes
The course gives a comprehensive overview in the research on haptics. After this course the student knows of potentials of the haptic modality and how it can be applied in both unimodal and multimodal contexts.
Study material
Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
Other online content | English |
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Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses