Topic #1: Interaction Styles

1.

The word "haptic" means "of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch". A haptic interface is a device which allows a user to interact with a computer by receiving tactile feed back. These devices can be used by people with disabilities or people who learn best through tactile or kinesthetic experiences. In this problem, you are asked to work on the following.

a)      Perform a literature survey on haptic devices and learn more about it.

b)      Name at least 5 commercially available haptic products (you must provide references along with the products).

c)      Assume a situation where you are asked to design a haptic device for a specific web based application, say “web-enable home appliances” (not limited to). Propose a scheme for the interaction. Your proposal should contain (1) the problem statement (2) device and system description (3) tasks and (4) the dialogue specification.

Note: “Web-enable home appliances” basically controlling the appliances like TV, AC, Computer, Fridge, Fan, Lights etc. in an office or home. Assume that these appliances are well connected to the Internet (if you need any special connectivity, you should mention those.)

Team:

Major Vinay Gupta (06EC6423) and R. Rajendra Prasath (06CS6033)

2.

Presently, most of the operating systems (Windows, Linux etc.) support GUI based direct manipulation based interaction style. There are medium like audio (like speech, music, heptic (like touch, smell, pressure, temperature etc.) and other human qualities (like  is also possibilities. We can term an interaction style as multi-modal, if we consider two or more of the these things in an interface, then it is called multi-modal interface.

Make a detail survey on multi-modal user interface. Identify the pros and lacuna in it.

Based on your survey, plan for a future OS.

(You should clear consider user’s profile into an account.)

Team:

Amit Parashar (06IT6002) and Ajit Gupta (06IT6001)

Topic #2: HCI Applications

3.

A PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) is an digital device (also called Pocket PC) and in fact claim as more than what computer can do. If you are new to PDAs then do a survey and have the preliminaries on it.  Prepare a consolidated survey  highlighting the following.

Present state-of-the art of PDA technology and its usefulness.

Issues and challenges ahead.

Your approach to address those issues and challenges.

PDAs in future.

Team:

Sqn Ldr C. S. Krishna Das (06EC6424) and Arindam Dasgupta (07IT7001)

4.

It is felt to prepare embedded book (we can call it as eBook). It is called embedded because both hardware and software are embedded into the design using the principle of augmented reality and of course it looks physically alike a paper-based book.

Identify the scope and need of eBook technology.

Plan different features that you may consider in the design of eBook from the following perspectives

User

Task

Interface

Team:

Kashis Shukla (06IT6018) and Pantha Kanti Nath (06IT6021)

Topic #3: Adaptive User Interface

5.

Same user sees the same interface differently as he grows. How you can make your system grow with user as well? This is the one challenging area in HCI and popularly called AUI design.

Get sufficient preliminaries on AUI design.

Identify challenges to be overcame.

Identify all parameters you should consider towards the AUI design.

Illustrate your proposed approach on AUI with a case study.

Team:

Jitendra Singhal (06IT6005) and Jaswan Singh (06IT6004)

6.

Cyber India for India is as follows.

78% people are digitally illiterate.

Internet accesses are only confined to urban areas. Rural pointes are remotely located and in some places low bandwidth connections are visible. Government utmost attempted or trying   to connect them in cyber world by providing wireless satellite communication etc. but in coming decade it is not wise to expect a much progress unless there is breakthrough.

Rural peoples are illiterate, but intelligently comparable to that of their urban counterparts. However, they are reluctant to any foreign languages, rather they prefer to have everything in their mother languages.

As an HCI engineer it is a task for you to reshape the Cyber India.

Report your proposal.

Team:

Major G. N. Juneja (06EE6312) and D. Rath (06EE6313)

Topic #4: Evaluation of Interactive Systems

7.

User evaluation of interactive systems sometimes becomes problematic or even impossible. Model based automatic evaluation of interactive systems is used to overcome this problem.

Review the following models (not limited to) and assess their  applicability in the automatic evaluation of interactive systems.

Model Human Process

Keystroke Level Model (KLM)

GOMS and its family

Fitt’s Model

Based on your survey propose your approach of automatic interface evaluation.

Team:

B. V. V. Krishna Raju (06IT6014) and L. Kalyan (06IT6006)

8.

So far expert analysis based HCI evaluation is concerned, we have noticed a sufficient development. However, evaluating with  users remains open. Identify the problems with user-based evaluation and a tentative solution against each problem you have identified. Support your solution with sufficient comments/justifications

Team:

Major Samresh Malhotra (06IT6021) and Lt. Cdr. Ajay Kumar S (06IT6016)

Topic #5: HCI  Design

9.

If you are knew to soft keyboard (also called virtual keyboard) learn the preliminaries on it. Then report on the following.

What are the varieties in soft keyboard reported so far?

What are the applications of such keyboard?

What things you should consider to enhance their performance? (You should give your idea of evaluating a soft keyboard, in general).

Team:

Major Santosh Prasad (06EC6037) and B. Satish (06CS6006)

10.

Soft keyboard and scanning are two buzz words in the context of developing interface for quadriplegic people.

You are to review the state-of-the-arts in this domain with acute criticism for each.

Team:

Naga Vidya G (06IT6008) and G. D. K. Viswanath Reddy (06CS6009)

11.

Web page is in fact an interface to Internet. It is not so worth to mention that Internet becomes an integral part in our life.  A number of works reported in recent literature to make a good web page. You are asked to study existing approaches and include those in your report. In addition to that you may consider of your own idea  for the same. Justify your idea with a case study.

Team:

Major Heemanshu Jha (06EC6422) and Majr D. S. Ranade (06CS6028)