Interactive Systems

Dear students,

we now opened the registration for the re-exam inspection on 29.09.2021 in Lecture Hall 2 in E2.5 (Math Building) in CMS.

Important:
We recognized there was an old registration slot and some students registered for it already.
We needed to delete this slot as the room and time for the inspection changed.

Everyone interested in taking part in the re-exam inspection (even those, who were registered before) must register with one of the new slots until 21.09.2021.

The grades will be released within the next two weeks.

Best,
Your Interactive Systems Team

 

Please note that it is necessary for you to bring your medical mouth-nose protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) with you.

 

A negative PoC antigen test not older than 24 hours or vaccination or recovery is recommended, but not required.

 

If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam. If you provide a doctor’s certificate to the examination office later on, the examination attempt will be cancelled and will not count.

Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days?

Do you have any of the following symptoms?

▪ Cough / Husten

▪ Sore throat / Halsschmerzen

▪ Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen

▪ Diarrhoea /Durchfall

▪ Fever /Fieber

▪ Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen

▪ Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust

▪ Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust

Dear students,

please make sure to register in CMS and LSF (if applicable) until August 25th, 2021 (23:59PM) if you want to participate in the re-exam. Otherwise, you will NOT be eligible to take part. 

Please also return the hardware at the re-exam! We are still missing kits! 

Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation. 

Your Interactive Systems Team 

Dear students,

we released the results from the main exam this morning. You should be able to see them in CMS.

The inspection will take place at E1.3 HS002 on Thursday, 5th of August, 2021, starting at 1PM.

It is required that you register for the inspection in CMS (we offer different time slots). We will only bring exams to the inspection from those students who are registered! 

Be aware that registration closes on Monday, 2th of August 2021. Afterwards, we need to inform the University about how many people will attend the exam inspection. Hence, late registration is NOT possible!

 

Thank you very much.

Your Interactive Systems Team

Please note that it is necessary for you to bring your medical mouth-nose protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) with you.

 

A negative PoC antigen test not older than 24 hours or vaccination or recovery is recommended, but not required”.

 

If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam. If you provide a doctor’s certificate to the examination office later on, the examination attempt will be cancelled and will not count.

Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days?

Do you have any of the following symptoms?

 

▪ Cough / Husten

▪ Sore throat / Halsschmerzen

▪ Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen

▪ Diarrhoea /Durchfall

▪ Fever /Fieber

▪ Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen

▪ Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust

▪ Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust”

Dear students,

Please carefully read the information below.

The project presentations will happen next week on Wednesday, 21st of August 2021 starting at 12PM.

 

We will be using Teams meetings:

Tutorial 1: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzRhZTUxZmMtOGUxMS00NGZmLWE1ODUtZTg5NjFkNTZmOGE5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267610027-1ac3-49b6-8641-ccd83ce1b01f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b005948-e83b-4ef9-9e85-b1cbb5fc848e%22%7d

Tutorial 2: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MzU2NjEyNWUtOTI0YS00NWM5LWFhM2YtZDRiYjA1MmM4YzQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267610027-1ac3-49b6-8641-ccd83ce1b01f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229b4d8eeb-9de0-4e90-a8c9-823ef34a7d8c%22%7d

Tutorial 3: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YWZiZmYxMGItMjdlMy00N2I1LTlmOWItYmVmYjA0ZDAyNzQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267610027-1ac3-49b6-8641-ccd83ce1b01f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225fc0e7f7-6ce4-4900-817a-099ce40c405e%22%7d

Tutorial 4: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTlkYzVmMGQtOTMxOS00NjBkLWI4ZTgtNjYxNDJhY2U3ZmZh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2261a9f1bd-7ea0-4068-b231-bb4a6bfcb700%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220c915cfd-c2af-48a6-ba78-16adc4667113%22%7d

 

*Important*

Please stick to the 5min presentations! It is required that you submit your project in CMS until Tuesday 20th, 23:59PM. If you do not submit your project, you will fail the project; thus, you will not be admitted to the exam! Please see exercise sheet 07 on what/how to submit.

 

If you are having an exam on the same day, you have the option to present your project one day earlier (Tuesday 20th). Send me and e-mail including your group´s id, your names, your student id, and the conflicting exam that (at least) one of you is registered for.

 

All the best,

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

In the previous live session, there was a question regarding answering exam questions in German. After careful considerations, we came to the conclusion that the official exam language remains English (dictionary is allowed); thus, answers will only be accepted in English.

If you feel like this causes a lot of issues for you, please get in touch with me immediately.

Your Interactive-System Team

Dear students,

please find the Teams link for our additional exam preparation office hour. It will take place on Wednesday, July 14th, 12:15PM.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWM3NzUxNGEtOGI3OC00ZTllLWEzZGEtNzUyNGM4ZjdkMmI3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2261a9f1bd-7ea0-4068-b231-bb4a6bfcb700%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220c915cfd-c2af-48a6-ba78-16adc4667113%22%7d

This will be a Q&A session; there is no specific program planned for the day. 

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

please find the word for your morse-to-hex project pipeline presentation below:

 

Word (2 characters) -> "IS"

 

Please be aware that your system still needs to able to decode/encode other words (which we will check).

 

All the best,

Your Interactive System Team

Dear students,

It is time for the evaluation =) 

We kindly asked you to evaluate/provide feedback on the lecture and the tutorials. This helps us to better understand which aspects worked well and what we have to improve. It should only take 5 minutes of your time, and you can do this until July 15th.

 

Interactive Systems: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=129644&p=3l4zyz

Interactive Systems: (Tutorials): https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=1296441&p=buchu4

 

We greatly appreciate any feedback (positive and negative)!

Thank you very much =)

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

Please read the following information carefully, if you want/plan to take the exam!

 

1)     Each student MUST register in CMS. (https://cms.sic.saarland/is_sose21/registration_items)

2)     Each student MUST register for the exam/re-exam in LSF. Please note, that students from certain subjects will not be able to register in LSF – for everyone else, it is required to register in order to take the exam! If you cannot register in LSF, the registration in CMS is sufficient. 

 

Registration is now open in CMS and LSF. The deadline for de-/registering is one week before the exam (July 21st, 23:59PM) - there will be no exceptions! 

 

All the best for the upcoming weeks,

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

Below you can find more information about the exam.

 

What it relevant for the exam?

The exam will cover the content discussed in the lecture. That means the following topics are relevant:

• Microcontrollers and Basic Electronics
• Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Context and Positioning
• Wearable Computing
• Touch
• Digital Fabrication
• Robotics

 

What it NOT relevant for the exam?

• There will be no questions about the Electronic Textiles lecture (Week 5: 05-p2-Wearable Computing).
• There will be no questions about Unity3D.

 

Exam preparation:

• We have uploaded a practice exam to CMS (materials section). This should help you to prepare for the exam. Notice, that this is a shorter version of an exam. Usually, there will be at least one exercise per topic. 
• Prof. Krüger will go through the practice exam during his Live Rehearsal & Questions lecture on June 30th. Afterwards, you can ask lecture specific questions.
• We have also reserved three tutorials, where you can ask questions about lecture topics (or you can still seek advise for your project).
• In addition, we may also offer an office-hour in case you find this helpful.

 

 

Best of luck for the upcoming weeks!

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

we just released ex07 which tells you how to prepare yourself and your project for the final presentations. Please carefully go through the document. In case something is unclear, do not hesitate to contact us!

The final project presentations will be held on July 21st, 2021 – starting at 12pm. Please stick to the presentation time! We asked you to submit your project (as a group) one day prior to the live presentations in CMS, July 20th, 2021, 23:59PM.

On July 21, you can simply join the Teams channel (from your tutorial). We will create breakout rooms for the final presentations.

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

We just approved the concept reports. You should be able to see it in CMS. We were genuinely surprised about the different solutions you came-up with, and we saw some very creative things in the bonus points sections – well done! We are looking forward to seeing these solutions implemented.

Once again, if you have any questions about the exercise/lecture or your project, please come to the tutorials and ask your tutor. You can also reach out via e-mail or on Discord. We are more than happy to help.

This week marks the final lecture week. That means, from now on you can work on your project full time. In the next couple of weeks, we will also provide more details regarding the final exam, and how to prepare for it. In addition, we may offer an office-hour specifically for questions about the exam/lecture (in case you find this helpful) besides the regular tutorials.

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

by now, all of you should have received feedback on your concept document in CMS.

• In case everything was okay, you can start implementing your project (if you have not already).
• In case we ask you to clarify/revise parts of your concept document, please do so, and re-submit it until Monday, June 7th 23:39PM.

 

If you have not received feedback in CMS, please contact your tutor immediately.

 

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

 

due to organizational reasons, we have to move the Live "Rehearsal and Questions" lecture to June 30th. 

 

Join: https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/95254963926?pwd=YjRVcDBXcVlqRGlMNDlHTnRTeC9Udz09

Meeting-ID: 952 5496 3926

Code: 226567

 

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

just as a reminder, the concept presentation this week (at least one of the team members need to attend) is mandatory! If your team does not show-up, you will fail the course!

 

Based on the questions we received, we added further explanations to the passing requirements and bonus points sheets to avoid confusion. Please carefully read them!!

https://cms.sic.saarland/is_sose21/dl/4/Passing_Requirements.pdf

https://cms.sic.saarland/is_sose21/dl/2/Bonus_Points.pdf

 

In the concept presentations this week, you will also receive concrete feedback from your tutor.

 

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear Students,

this week we have the concept presentations and submissions:

 

1)     Please prepare a 2min talk (e.g., slides, concept sketch, ...) that you present as a group in your tutorial this week. You can decide to present it together or only one person represents the team. That is up to you.

2)     The presentation is mandatory, but not grated!

3)     Briefly explain what you want to implement (not details – stick to the 2mins!).

4)     Based on the feedback you receive (from your tutor and other students in your tutorial) you can revise your concept document before submitting it (Deadline: May 30th).  

 

We do this to make this course more interactive and furthermore, to help you getting started early on. Further, this will ensure that your project goals are not too ambitious. We will check the concept documents and provide feedback on your execution plan.

 

All upcoming project work will be executed/presented and submitted as a group! One submission per group in CMS.

 

Your Interactive-Systems Team

Dear students,

 

We are currently running two user studies about the perception of grasping and manipulating objects in Virtual Reality.

The system was implemented using Unity3D and Arduino, so quite related to the course =)

Since we are looking for participants, we wanted to ask if you would like to participate?

Please carefully read the information below. In case you are interested, you can book your preferred day and time under: https://calendly.com/martin-feick/graspinginvr
 

The study has been approved from the DFKI Krisenstab and complies to all regulation.

 

Thank you very much for your help, we greatly appreciate it.

Kind regards,

Martin

 

-------------------------------------------------------Information-----------------------------------------------------------

 

*Topic:*

Grasping and Manipulating Objects in Virtual Reality

 

*Duration:*

1 hour per participant.

 

*Requirements:*

Participants need to be *right-handed* with normal or corrected-to-normal vision.

 

*Place:*

Meeting point: DFKI main entrance

The study will take place in *Turing 1* *at the DFKI.

 

*Time:*

The study will take start on Monday 17.05.

To make scheduling easier, there are 4 slots available per day:

 * Slot #1: 10:00 – 11:00

 * Slot #2: 12:00 – 13:00

 * Slot #3: 14:00 – 15:00

 * Slot #4: 16:00 – 17:00

 

*Compensation:*

10 € (people who are not affiliated with DFKI) + candy for everyone.

 

*Prerequisites:*

Negative COVID-19 test (can be done at DFKI for time slot #1 and #2)

If you plan to do a COVID-19 test at DFKI, please show-up 30min before your study appointment to allow enough time for the test. You can also bring a valid Covid-19 test yourself (no older than 24hours). You can do a test on campus for free: https://test-saarland.de/uds.. Fully vaccinated people can participate without a test but are required to provide proof (e.g., vaccination record/pass).

Students who want to transfer the project/assignments from SoSe 2020 (Prof. Steimle), please send an e-mail to martin.feick@dfki.de including your full name and student id. I will double-check your data and enter it into the system. If you passed the project/assignments in SoSe 2020, you can write the exam/re-exam without doing the project work again. 

Please do this before May 30^th.

Thank you very much for your understanding.

Dear Students,

in case you still have not found a partner, please get in touch with your tutor immediately! 

Make sure to register your team in CMS. We still see people who registered individually which is NOT allowed.

You can also look for a partner in a different tutorial slot.

 

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

First of all, we are very happy to announce that we can provide a hardware kit for all students on the waiting list!

Below, you can find the final instructions for the hardware pickup on Monday, May 3rd. Please read them carefully.

 

1. If you missed submitting the rental agreement, you can still participate in the course by purchasing the hardware yourselves. Late submissions are NOT possible due to organizational reasons.
2. If you show-up to the hardware pickup but you haven’t submitted the rental agreement you will NOT be given a kit.
3. Please come to the hardware pickup in your time slot (see Kick-off slides). We do not expect much waiting time.
4. Please have your student ID card at hand.
5. Please wait at the square in front of Mensa (keep distance). The tutor will indicate that she is ready for the next student. Show your ID card to the tutor, she will double-check your name with our list. Then you may collect a kit. The entire process will be executed contact free.
6. Please avoid queuing-up or waiting in groups. Leave the area as soon as you received your hardware kit. 
7. You must wear a mask!

 

Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.

Your Interactive-Systems Team

Dear students,

based on your feedback and many questions we received, we decided to slightly modify the hardware rental program.

 

Students who are eligible (no changes):

Only students from the following subjects are (by default) eligible for the hardware rental:

1) Media informatics (B.Sc.) since it is a mandatory (core) lecture for them.

2) BSc/MSc Computer Science (Advanced Lecture)

3) MSc Embedded Systems (Advanced Lecture)

4) MSc Entrep. Cypersecurity (Advanced Lecture)

5) Media informatics (M.Sc.). If you have not taken it as part of your B.Sc. (either because you have been at another university, or you were enrolled in a B.Sc. program other than Media Informatics). (Advanced Lecture)

 

If you want to rent the hardware, and you belong to one of the above-mentioned subjects, it is required that you submit the rental agreement until April 30th.

 

Students who are not eligible (updates):

There is a chance that we have some hardware kits left over. We will distribute them to the remaining students on a random basis.

If you want to sign-up for this, please submit the rental agreement to the “Waiting List” submission category in CMS until April 30th. On May 1st, we will inform you about whether we have a spare kit for you.

Please be aware that you are not guaranteed a hardware kit, and in case you still need to purchase it afterwards, you will most likely get the hardware too late for ex. 2 and the “Introduction to Arduino” course. Therefore, we recommend buying one yourselves or at least having one kit per project team, so that you can follow along. 

 

 

We apologize for any inconvenience caused, but we were honestly surprised by the number of students who registered for the course. That being said, we are very happy that so many people are interested in the topic, and we’ll try to support you in any way possible.

Best,

Your Interactive Systems Team

Dear students,

we assigned you to the different tutorial slots. We tried our best to avoid conflicts; however, please check whether the date/time works for you. In case there is something wrong, please get in touch with your respective tutor.

1. You can now also register your project team in CMS. If you have difficulties finding a project partner, check out the discord server. Registration due May 3rd.
2. Students who want to rent the course hardware from us can now download and submit the rental agreement in CMS (due April 30th). Please verify if you are eligible for the hardware rental i.e., the lecture is either mandatory or counts as an advanced lecture for you (see Kick-off slides). In doubt? – Please see your curriculum or talk to your examination office. In case you can use this lecture as free credits, we unfortunately cannot provide the course hardware. Thus, do not submit the agreement.

 

Welcome to the Interactive Systems lecture in SoSe 2021! We are very happy that you join us under these special circumstances. The first "LIVE" lecture will be given on April 14th 12:00 - 14:00 in Zoom. Please find the login data below. We are looking forward to seeing you. 

 

Link: https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/95020326418?pwd=WDlKWTB3TEtqSW9yRXE2WGp5dDlCQT09

Meeting-ID: 950 2032 6418

Code: 438846