Schedule for January 2005 (tentative)

• Round robin introductions
  • name, why 581
  • past experiences art/music/related creative areas/work...

Tell students about

• course notes on line at www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/581/
• Developers cookbook www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab/cookbook/ 
• bring in $10.00 photocopying
• Get email/web site from then
• give them handouts
• ask them about Vis Studio / C# exprience

Lecture

• Introduction to 581:
  • go through slides, and along the way go through details of handouts
• Sketching
• Single Display Groupware (part 1)

Demonstrations

• Single Display Groupware application (a couple)

Tutorial

• Hello World
  • make sure students can run Visual Studio

Exercise 1

• Give out exercise on SDG, tell them about readings
• Worth of assignment: 20%

• official course info sheet
• Your sketchbook
• Your portfolio
• Prototyping
• Exercise: Designing SDG

Homework:

• buy sketchbook, supplies, etc.
• read assignment 1
• do sketches of exercise 1 for show and discussion
• try to log onto computer
  • run Visual studio / C#
  • download and try SDG cookbook examples

• Get good intro chapters to C# and Visual Studio for them
• Show the visual summary
• Show the demo

• course sheet from office
• sketchbook
• portfolio case
• rubber bands (8)
• mice / keyboards
• speakers
• student accounts

• Sketches: each student photographs best idea and presents it
• Each one talks about their best one for a minute.
• others critique it / copy ideas to sketchbook
• Saul: records if they have done it.

Assignment 1 deliverables

• go through specific deliverables of Assignment 1

Tutorial

• SDG Toolkit Tutorial (Edward Tse)
  • go through few slides
  • walk through demo  with them doing it
  • Simple Sketch and Tic Tac Toe (SDG Widget)

Tell students about

• due date: demo button + all deliverables including online web, paper summary
• Readings on SDG
• How to get Visual Studio (details on C# Cookbook site)
• Monday lab: build a simple ActiveX control, work on assignment, advanced questions, etc.
• If they work at home, must bring code to labs

• Check out readings on SDG website
• do all tutorial
• elaborate / revise your ideas / new sketches
• start coding Assignment 1
• Be prepared to  show what you have done in assignment 1 so far in lab next week

• SDG presentation: Part 2 (videos). Use sketchbook to record ideas!
• Portfolio
  • bring samples to class
  • discuss what makes a professional/learning portfolio
  • website requirements (summary, index, src, exe, visual description)
  • portfolio case: sample
  • Visual summaries - some variations:
    • storyboards
    • books
    • flip books
    • video
    • binding/paper quality/be creative
    • on line versions - gifs/animated gifs/video

Tutorial

• SDG Toolkit: Part 2
  • SimpleText
  • Simple Spline
  • SDG Button

Demonstrations

• Single Display Groupware applications - look at remaining ones
  • SDG Pong Game - Nicolai Marquardt
  • SDG Mind Bender Game - Petra Neumann
  • SDG Puzzle Game - Kimberly Tee
  • SDG Candy Game - Stephanie Smale S
  • SDG Math Game - Robert Morgan
  • SDG Widgets - Rob Diaz-Marino

Tell students about

• 581 website: create basic page
• Sketchbook. How many  ideas? Minimum: 10 breadth, 10 variations
• due date: Wednesday, Jan 25th
  • in class: demo, web site walk through, pass around poster summary
  • on web: online visual summary including visual overview, src, execs, docs,

• give out keyboards
• tutorials

Homework:

• continue coding exercise 1

Supplies / Prep

• Philips table on line

Tutorial

• Split into groups of 3, and have each member show/discuss/critique sketches and work in progress with each other. Rob/Saul to walk around while this is happening.
• SDG Toolkit: Part 2
  • System mouse vs SDG Mouse
  • floating widgets,
• C# (briefly)
  • GDI+
  • WMV
  • Midi

Practice

• work on button in lab for remaining time (TA there to help)

Homework:

• continue coding exercise 1,
• start other assignment deliverables

Tutorial

• Work on project, Saul/Rob answer questions

Homework:

• continue coding exercise 1,
• paper and web portfolio

• Each student demonstrates their SDG project
• says what design is based on
• demos the project
• demos the online visual summary
• Other students critique, sketch good ideas into their sketchbook

Due

• SDG Project -all componets

Lecture

• Walk through Assignment 2
• CB talk (Group)
• Prototyping supplies: lay them out on the table and discuss

• Exercise 2 Notifications
• Exercise 2 readings
• NC Tutorial

Homework:

• sketch out media item ideas
• use the CB
• Download/try CB Tutorial

• Exercise 2 CB Media Items
• Exercise 2 readings
• CB Tutorial

Homework:

• sketches of media items

• Notifications
• The Community Bar (by Gregor McEwan)

Activity

• Sketchbook: design a media item for teenagers to share live music
• After completion, choose a partner (preferably opposite sex), explain your idea and intermix them to create a new design

• Sketch out 8 different ideas
• Show your best one on Wednesday
• Try Community Bar with your friends

Handouts

• Exercise 2 media items
• Grades

• Sketches: each student photographs best idea and presents it
• Each one talks about their best one for a minute.
• others critique it / copy ideas to sketchbook
• Saul: records if they have done it.

Lecture

• The Media Item Architecture (presenation by Gregor)

Tutorial

• How to code Media Items (tutorial by Gregor)

Activity

• design exercise-partner critiques / helps develop other person's sketch

• sketches: 8 detailed variations of your chosen project
• start coding assignment 2

• .Networking (tutorial by Rob)
• Collabrary Photo Manipulation (Saul)
• Drag and drop
• Student problems / offerings

Other events

• Rob films SDG Projects

• continue coding assignment 2

• Student problems / offerings
• show student SDG videos so far

• continue coding assignment 2

Lecture

• CRAP - Graphical design
• show student SDG videos so far

Tutorial:

• reminder about paper booklets
• Student problems / offerings

Homework:

• continue coding assignment 2

• Each student demonstrates their Media item project
• says what design is based on
• demos the project
• demos the online visual summary
• Other students critique, sketch good ideas into their sketchbook

Lecture

• Physical User Interfaces

• Sketch out 8 different ideas
• Show your best one on Wednesday
• remind about .Networking, etc.

• Sketches: each student photographs best idea and presents it
• Each one talks about their best one for a minute.
• others critique it / copy ideas to sketchbook
• Saul: records if they have done it.

Lecture

• Programming with Phidgets

Tutorial

• How to code Phidgets
• description of Calendar, MSN

Activity

• design exercise-partner critiques / helps develop other person's sketch

Materials

• give out basic phidget set to students

• sketches: 8 detailed variations of your chosen project
• start coding assignment 2
• request additional phidgets from TA

• Student problems / offerings
• Coding the calendar
• Coding MSN

Hand in Sketchbook

• linking public spaces
• 5 minutes (group) to produce initial design
• 1 minute pitch
• 1 minute group discussion
• 15 sec/person group critique
• 1 minute discussion
• 45 second rebuttal

Video editing

• How to do video editing on Premiere

• Introduction to MSI
  • walk through simple demo
• Prototyping supplies: lay them out on the table and discuss