Interactive Systems

Dear Students,

I would like to let you know that instead of a lecture, we offer an Open Lab this Thursday, 10th of July, at 14:15. This gives you the opportunity to see the HCI Lab, get to know its facilities for developing interactive system, and to experience some of our recent research on interactive systems. You can also meet and discuss with the members of the team.

The event will take place at the HCI Lab in Building E1.7 on the 2nd floor, at the usual lecture time starting 14:15.

Best,

Ashwin

Hi all,

The final project presentation will be held in the respective tutorials on the following dates:

Tutorial 2 - July 1, 10.00 -11.30

Tutorial 3 - July 2, 16.30 -18.00 (updated)

Tutorial 4 - July 4, 12.00 - 13.30

Tutorial 1 - July 7, 14.30 - 16.00

For the presentation you need to bring the poster and present your project.

The deadline for submission of Milestone 3 has been extended to July 4th 23.59

Best,

Ashwin

 

 

A quick poll in yesterday's lecture showed that students would rather watch the video recording than an additional replacement lecture for last week's canceled lecture. Be sure to familiarize yourself with all the videos of the Touch Interfaces lecture. Touch-part1/2/3 were covered live in class. Touch-part4 and Touch-part6 are the additional content you need to watch to prepare for the exam. Touch-part5 (software pipeline) will *not* be covered this year; you do not need to prepare this part.

I will be offering an additional office hour next Tuesday, June 17th, 13:00-14:00 in my office (Bld. E1.7 Room 2.23) to answer questions you may have about the Touch lecture. Just drop by any time during this hour if you have any questions.

Juergen Steimle

Hi all,

1. The deadline for team registration has been extended until Friday (25th April). If you have not registered your team, please do so by this date. No more extensions will be provided after this.

2. You will receive your hardware kits during your tutorials this week. Some kits have new microcontrollers in packets with unsoldered pins. If this is the case, please check with other groups that have two soldered microcontrollers (those not in a packet), and get one from them. After this, each group will have one pre-soldered microcontroller to begin with for their projects.

As a reminder, you are not allowed to solder or glue the components on your own. If your project requires additional soldered microcontrollers, please approach your tutor and we will arrange one for you. Alternatively if your project does not require microcontrollers/HW, you may return it to back to your tutor. 

Best,

Ashwin

 

 

Hi all, 

A few points to note about the tutorials.

1. The venue for the tutorials on Tuesday is E1-3, SR015. There was a typo on the organisational slides that has been corrected.
2. The tutorial for Monday (21st) is rescheduled to Thursday (24th April) 4-6 pm. Venue: continued in lecture hall
3. Also, repeating the message from the previous post: The tutorial for Friday (18th) is rescheduled to Thursday (17th April) 4-6 pm. Venue: continued in lecture hall

Best,

Ashwin

Dear students,

Tutorial Assignment 

All of you should now be assigned to a tutorial based on the preferences you had indicated. Please read the following points below for tutorial swapping - only if you absolutely cannot attend the assigned tutorial !

1. If you (or the group you expected to form) find yourselves in a tutorial slot that you absolutely cannot attend, please use the CMS forum to arrange a swap with another person or group. We’ve set up a "Tutorial Swap" category in the forum for this purpose. If you or your group is theoretically available in multiple tutorial slots, please be considerate of those requests from students with more limited availability!
2. Once you've found a swap partner or group, send an email to ias25(at)cs.uni-saarland.de with your names and group numbers. We will make the necessary changes.
3. If you have consulted the CMS forum but haven’t been able to find someone to switch with by Monday (14th April) 11:59 PM, please send us an email on Tuesday morning.

Next Steps

1. The first Tutorial session starts on Monday (14th April). You will form teams for your projects in this session, so it is important to attend. Based on internal discussion, we have revised the team size to 3 members per group.
2. Once you form a team, you should register your team in CMS (under Teams header). One member can create the team and share the generated team code to the other members to let them join. This must be completed by Friday (18th April) 6:00 pm. 
3. If you are unable to find a team by the end of this period, please send an email to ias25(at)cs.uni-saarland.de

Shift of Tutorial on Friday (18th April)

Finally, since this Friday (18th April) is a holiday, the tutorial has been shifted to Thursday (17th April) after the lecture, from 4-6 pm. It will continue in lecture hall. 

We will inform you about the Tutorial on Monday (21st) soon.

Best,

Ashwin