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INFO
SCHEDULE
LITERATURE
PROJECTS
HOME EXAM
RESOURCES
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Individual Home Exam
The individual home exam is intended to
have two
functions: (1) a motivation and check-up to ensure that all students
have read and
reflected upon the literature presented and discussed during the
course, (2) to provide opportunity for expressing individual
reflections concerning ubiquitous computing and interaction design.
The home exam must be handed in on 19th
January
2009 at the latest, by
sending an email to the course e-mail (a gmail). The
questions to be answered are available on-line on 1st December 2008. It is strongly
recommended to have read all literature by this date to be able to
provide proper answers to the questions. Expect that about 5 pages of
text will be required for the answers.
Grading
The home assigment will be included in
the grading process. A very good
home assignment could result in an individual final grade that is
higher than the project grade, as well as lower. Not passing the home
assignment means that you do not pass the course. To pass, all 5
answered questions must be judged as
passable.
This means that it should be obvious
that you have read and reflected
upon the literature and made a serious effort to produce a
comprehensible answer.
Exam Questions
Answer 5 of the following 8 questions:
- Describe
how the interaction between humans and computational technology has
evolved from the time of the first computers until now.
- What are the main challenges of
designing for interaction with
ubiquitous domestic environments and how can they be tackled? How may
these
challenges have developed under the past 2 decades and what new
opportunities
have come up?
- What is the
significance of everyday routines in the design of
ubiquitous computing? How can the technology possibly disturb them and
how
could you design to avoid this?
- Explain what is meant by Affordances
and how the notion can be useful for the design of IT-artefacts.
Further, summarise the paper How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for
Interaction Design. Discuss if there are any connections between
the mentioned papers.
- Weiser introduced the notion of Calm Computing.
Explain what this means and its implications for design of ubiquitous
computing systems. Further, present the idea of Engaging UbiComp
Experiences, what it could be and why Yvonne Rogers has introduced
it. Reflect on the idea of pro-active vs. engaging computing.
- Privacy is an important issue in ubiquitous
computing. Discuss what kind of problems developers should be aware of
and how they can be handled.
- Discuss the difference between space, place and
context in terms of how it can affect the design and use of ubiquitous
computing systems.
- Describe the essence of Ubiquitous
Computing,
what is it really about? Why is it important or why not? How will it
affect us in the future? What do you believe are interesting or
important questions for the future? Is Mark Weiser's vision already
here, or will it never come. If so, why not? In short, this is an
opportunity to state your own thoughts about ubiquitous computing, past
present and future. However, your statements should be supported by the
literature where applicable.
Guidelines for Answers
- Each answer should
be roughly one page long, or at most about 600 words.
- Where applicable,
statements should be supported by reference to the course literature
(paper X, page Y).
- You are not allowed to hand in answers to more than 5
questions.
On Cheating and Plagiarism
Here are some rules to follow in order to avoid plagiarism: [PDF]
Reading Help
See advices about how to read an article + an example here, under
"Reading Help": [link]
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