CSE165W2015
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CSE165: 3D User Interaction
Description
Course Schedule
Click here for the course schedule.
It lists lecture dates, homework due dates, and recommended reading.
Announcements
- 2015-01-06 Welcome to the course web site!
Topics
- Introduction to 3D interaction
- Application domains
- Output hardware
- Input hardware
- Selection and Manipulation
- Navigation (Travel and Wayfinding)
- System Control
- Symbolic Input
- 3D user interface design
- Evaluation of 3D User Interfaces
- Augmented Reality Interfaces
Prerequisites
- CSE167 (Introduction to Computer Graphics) or equivalent
- Experience programming in C++
- Experience with OpenGL graphics programming
Format
- Instructor: Dr. Jürgen Schulze
- Instructor's office hour: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm, Atkinson Hall, Room 2125
- Number of Units: 4
- Section IDs: 828327 and 828328
- Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00pm-3:20pm at WLH 2206
- First lecture: Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
- Homework: programming assignments
- Research paper presentation
- Designated computer lab for this course: CSE 220
- TA: Dylan McCarthy (demccart at ucsd.edu), Office hours: Tue+Thu 12:30-2pm, Wed 5-6pm (CSE lab 220)
- Tutor: Rex West (rwest at ucsd.edu), Office hours: Thu+Thu 5:30-7pm (CSE lab 220)
Grading
Assignment 1 (group) | 15% |
Assignment 2 (group) | 15% |
Assignment 3 (group) | 15% |
Assignment 4 (group) | 15% |
Paper Presentation (individual) | 15% |
Assignment 5 (group) | 25% |
You will find your scores on Ted. Please verify a few days after after every due date that your score has been recorded correctly and inform your grader if it has not.
If your weighted average score across all assignments is 100 points or more, you will get a grade of A+.
Final Project
There will not be a final exam, but the last programming project will be presented to the entire class during our final exam slot on Thursday, March 19th between 3 and 6pm.
Textbook
The textbook is recommended, but not mandatory as the lecture slides will be made available after each lecture and there will not be reading assignments.
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Bowman, Kruijff, LaViola, Poupyrev 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. Redwood City, CA, USA 2004 ISBN: 0201758679 |
Homework Assignments
All homework assignments are due at 1:00pm on the due date and have to be demonstrated to the instructor, TA or tutor in one of the CSE labs during grading time (Fridays 1pm-2:50pm). If someone absolutely cannot present on the due date, they need to arrange for early grading with the TA or tutor by email.