- CLASS SPECIFICS
- Grading and Deliverables
- Student Projects Blog
- Project # 1 (Individual): Simple Data 15%
- Project # 2 (Individual): Structured Data 20%
- Project # 3 (Team): Control Flow 25%
- Project # 4 (Team): Data Flow 25%
- Team Talk (on Projects # 3 or 4): 10%
- Participation (Team Talk Attendance and Blog Feedback): 5%
- Instructor: (Dr. Paul Fishwick) Web, Email and Teaching Assistant: (Zachary Ezzell) Zach Ezzell, Email
- Office Hours: Fishwick, 332 CSE (M 3-4:30PM,W 3-4:00PM); Ezzell 309 CSE (T3-5PM, Th 3-5PM)
- News group + list, To join, request membership, To Post
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- Aesthetic Computing Main Area
- Pop culture connections:
- Tron for its visual rendition of abstract software elements - CPU, networking, data transfer and storage.
- Myst for its surreal environment, and machines similar to the models of software (that affect the narrative). One needs to understand how a machine operates (i.e. semantics) by understanding its structure (i.e., syntax). Detail on a machine within Exile.
- Events in Class: SL Exhibits, Lectures, In World Tutorials
- Related Books (not required for class): Aesthetic Computing Create Your World Scripting Your World
- Material from invited speakers:
- Douglas: Schemas
- Taylor: Games/Narrative
- Lok: Mixed Reality Media Equation Reality Continuum
- Park: LibSecondLife
- Philosophy of course, and its purpose
- Introduction to Multi-user Virtual Environments (MUVEs)
- Second Life Introduction and Architecture
- Second Life Viewer interface
- Opensim Introduction: Reference
- Second Life geometry and object manipulation: beginning and advanced In-world: Ivory Tower of Prims
- Second Life scripting: beginning and advanced Reference In-world: Bromley College College of Scripting, Music, and Science
- Representation
- Guidelines for Mapping value and graph
- Representation Tutorial Draft (Fishwick, P. "Customized Visual Computing: The Aesthetic Computing Method" in Visual Languages for Interactive Computing, Fernando Ferri, Ed., IGI Global, pp. 425-435)
- Semiotics
- Creativity Mapping: General (Sir Ken Robinson) Analogy Memory Theatre Bead Game
- Grading and Deliverables