aesthetic computing (cap 4403, cap 6402)

Goal: To study the application of design and the arts to the interactive representation of web information

This is a seminar class where we will investigate the bridge connecting information on the web (unstructured, structured, located in a data repository or obtainable through an API) to the human. Connections to the human are achieved through a variety of approaches from 2D and 3D to cellular phones and microcomputer sensing.

Spring 2011

Course Location: MWF 7th (1:55-2:45PM), CSE 222
No books required. Optional data sets may require expense
Grading and Deliverables
- 20%: Team Presentation and Report (topics) and presentations to date
- 15%: Quizzes on Presentations
- 65%: Student Projects P1: 8%, P2: 12%, P3: 20%, P4: 25%
Instructor: (Dr. Paul Fishwick) Web, Email TA 1: (Zachary Ezzell) Web, Email and TA 2: (Hesam Salehian) Email
Office Hours: Fishwick, 332 CSE (M 3-4:30,W 3-4PM); Ezzell 356 CSE (T, Th 3-5PM); Salehian 309 CSE (T,Th 10:40-11:45AM)
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Syllabus
- Introduction to class: goals and objectives
- History of the class, past project examples
- 3 Key Steps: Information Mining, Filtering and Semantics, Representation
- Step 1: Information mining
- Step 2: Filtering and Linkage
  - Statistics and Machine Learning: R, Weka
  - Text Handling: GATE, Stanford Parser
  - Lexical Nets: WordNet, FrameNet, VerbNet
  - Workflows: Kepler
- Step 3: Representation
  - Approaches and philosophy and examples
  - Introduction to Processing
  - Second Life and OpenSim with examples
  - Arduino, Android and iOS
- Examples: Processing Second Life Content-Based Image Retrieval
- Ethics and legal issues
- Giving an effective presentation, student team talks, and invited speakers
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