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PE-1 Feed your mood to a mobile music player
This
project is for
someone interested in musical interfaces and AI. Lifiting up poeple's mood while they are
feeling down or calming them down if they are anxious or aggresive is a fun and
exciting project. This research has started in 2008-2009 in the FIT lab and
there are still many questions need to be answered about people's mood.
This project has strong potentials to be applied to healthcare, wellbeing and
crowd mood detection.
PE-2 Which
one fits into musical space: Fitts' law
or Hick-Hyman law?
This
project is for
someone interested in musical interfaces. In such interfaces as musical
targets
are invisible it is interesting to see how people perceive and locate
targets,
which are located randomly in the space. There has been some work done
in this
area and some people have looked at Fitts' Law in continuous auditory
interfaces but let us see if we can beat Fitts' Law, or use other
predictive
models in musical interfaces, e.g., Hick-Hyman Law.
PE-3 Analog
interaction for better or for worse?
In-car gadegts rely mostly on push buttons for interaction. Would analog
interaction such as knobs, sliders, touch, acceleration etc. be safer than push
buttons? This project is for someone interested in in-car gadgetry such as
radios, CD players and navigators. Car industries could potentially be
interested in this research and there is a real chance of making a practical and
positive difference. Strong skills in programming and patience with running user
studies are essential for this project. There are also other projects about
in-car gadgetry if you are interested.
PE-4 Excite, Scroll, and Feel
Can we feel information while we are scrolling through documents, web pages, etc.
using audio or haptic feedback? This project investigates the efficiency of
tilt-controlled scrolling in mobile situations and the effect of audio/haptic
in the interaction.
PE-5 Discrete,
or Continuous: that is the question
Current handheld computing devices offer a range of interaction techniques from discrete
(e.g. push button) to continuous (e.g. gesture) interaction and from manually
controlled (e.g. menu) applications to automated ones (e.g. automatic power
control). This project is for someone interested in designing non-intrusive
interaction with adjustable degree of automation on mobile computing devices.
PE-6 Efficient
Thumbnails in Photo browsers
This
project is for
someone interested in image processing and designing photo browsers on
small
computing devices. Many people use photo thumbnails in their mobile
phone due
to small screen size. This interface allows people to see a glimpse
(thumbnails)
of important information in images as they scroll through and if they
become
interested in details it gradually stretches relevant information. If
you like
to do some fun with images on small computing devices this is a nice
project to
do.
PE-7 Engage
both hands in the
interaction (Bimanual interaction)
This
project is for
someone interested in game control! Flight and car simulators have been
around for a long time and particularly they are being used for flight crew
training or car race training. The questions are, does human performance change when they use their two
hands rather than one hand? Can we improve human training using the
continuous
control? And plenty of interesting scopes to discover.y of interesting scopes to discover.
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