Invisible Media by David Merrill and Pattie Maes of the MIT Media Lab. (Image by Prof. Patricia Maes.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Patricia Maes
MIT Course Number
MAS.961
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course will provide an overview of a new vision for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in which people are surrounded by intelligent and intuitive interfaces embedded in the everyday objects around them. It will focus on understanding enabling technologies and studying applications and experiments, and, to a lesser extent, it will address the socio-cultural impact. Students will read and discuss the most relevant articles in related areas: smart environments, smart networked objects, augmented and mixed realities, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, tangible computing, intelligent interfaces and wearable computing. Finally, they will be asked to come up with new ideas and start innovative projects in this area.