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− | Reports regarding “the senses” assigned. | + | 2. Reports regarding “the senses” assigned. |
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+ | Reporting requirements: Each of you has chosen a sensory mode. For our next class meeting, | ||
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+ | bring a 5 page PowerPoint or KeyNote slide set. Be concise -- the words we see should only | ||
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+ | be touchstones that help you recall your recently acquired knowledge. | ||
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+ | Slide 1: (large) the name of the sensory mode (small) your name, IAT881: Bioaffective Computing, Spring 2011. | ||
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+ | Slide 2: An articulation of how the sensory mode works in physiological terms. | ||
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+ | Think about how the sensory mode you are covering might relate to other sensory modes. For instance, | ||
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+ | touch requires proximity and presence, but vision does not. | ||
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+ | Go beyond general assumptions. | ||
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+ | For example, many may assume that vision just requires a set of eyes, but the brain is also crucial. | ||
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+ | Viscera is very complex, so whomever has this one should probably focus on the enteric system. | ||
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+ | We will know if whomever covers taste has done their homework if they tell us that we have taste buds | ||
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+ | that recognize 4 (not 5) basic kinds of taste. Images, sound, animations, diagrams and videoclips are | ||
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+ | okay, but be sure you include proper citations/attributions in small text. | ||
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+ | Slide 3: Historical considerations. For vision, for example, some ancient Greeks believed that our eyes | ||
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+ | emitted rays. (Note: this slide may likely have some overlap with the subsequent slide.) | ||
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+ | Slide 4: Cultural considerations. How was or is your sensory mode considered in diverse cultures | ||
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+ | (evil eye, eyes are the windows to our souls)? What role does your sensory mode have in one or | ||
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+ | more cultures? (It is argued that some centuries in Western cultures were dominated by | ||
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+ | visual or so-called scopic regimes -- what does that mean?) | ||
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+ | a) Conduct Ypres-like research about that sensory mode. For exteroceptive senses, a good place to start is to | ||
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+ | refer to Diane Ackerman's book ''A Natural History of the Senses.'' For interoceptive senses, a good place to | ||
+ | |||
+ | start is to refer to Drew Leder's ''The Absent Body.'' You will be confronted with a seemingly insurmountable | ||
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+ | task -- to find and plow through an immense amount of information, and to make sense of it in a concise | ||
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+ | but not dumbed-down manner. My advice is to maintain a hard-core, laser-like focus. Find the information | ||
+ | |||
+ | you need in the burning building, grab it, and get the heck out. One aspect of this assignment is for you to | ||
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+ | figure out ways to quickly locate the best, most up-to-date knowledge from diverse domains, to determine | ||
+ | |||
+ | who the major players (theorists, scientists) are, what the main issues are, where exemplary works of | ||
+ | |||
+ | art, design, media or computing are, how to digest it all, and how to brainstorm ideas about that sense modality. | ||
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+ | These are incredibly important skills. | ||
Revision as of 13:03, 13 January 2011
IAT881: BioAffective Computing & Interactive Media
Spring 2011
Dr. Diane Gromala
Structure of class meetings
In each class meeting, unless otherwise noted, we will have:
topics for discussion & readings, assignments, reports, examples (artifacts) and discussion of methods.
Topics
Topics for discussion will be informed by the assigned readings.
I will assume that everyone has a thorough understanding of the readings (or quizzes may result).
We will discuss each topic by traditional means: discussion and textual responses.
For each reading, one of you will be assigned to address the topic by non-traditional, non-textual means.
This may be a video, performance, prank, interactive artwork, computer application, game, sound,
or any other legal means you come up with.
Assignments
Some assignments will simply be turned in, but most will be addressed in class.
Reports
Reports are presentations of issues assigned to you. Examples are a sensory mode,
a technology, an example (artifact, such as an application or interactive artwork)
and ideas for your project. Most should be no longer than 5 to 7 minutes, with 10-15 minutes of discussion or demos.
Basic suggestions for these reports will be provided, but you are encouraged to be creative and experimental.
For instance, perhaps the person who is assigned to report on the sense of hearing may bring in
things to listen to, things that might modify the way we hear, or design a sonic demo.
Similarly, whomever is assigned, say, the biofeedback technology of GSR might set
up a scenario using the technology, and show videoclips from the Millgram experiment.
Week One January 12: Introductions to affective computing, course requirements and each other.
Readings for next week:
The Emotional Self, Deborah Lupton: Introduction, Chapter 1 & Chapter 3
Affective Computing, Rosalind Picard, Introduction & Chapter 1
Assignments:
1. Add information about yourself and your interests + ideas you’d like to explore to this wiki, in the Community Portal section.
2. Reports regarding “the senses” assigned.
Reporting requirements: Each of you has chosen a sensory mode. For our next class meeting,
bring a 5 page PowerPoint or KeyNote slide set. Be concise -- the words we see should only
be touchstones that help you recall your recently acquired knowledge.
Slide 1: (large) the name of the sensory mode (small) your name, IAT881: Bioaffective Computing, Spring 2011.
Slide 2: An articulation of how the sensory mode works in physiological terms.
Think about how the sensory mode you are covering might relate to other sensory modes. For instance,
touch requires proximity and presence, but vision does not.
Go beyond general assumptions.
For example, many may assume that vision just requires a set of eyes, but the brain is also crucial.
Viscera is very complex, so whomever has this one should probably focus on the enteric system.
We will know if whomever covers taste has done their homework if they tell us that we have taste buds
that recognize 4 (not 5) basic kinds of taste. Images, sound, animations, diagrams and videoclips are
okay, but be sure you include proper citations/attributions in small text.
Slide 3: Historical considerations. For vision, for example, some ancient Greeks believed that our eyes
emitted rays. (Note: this slide may likely have some overlap with the subsequent slide.)
Slide 4: Cultural considerations. How was or is your sensory mode considered in diverse cultures
(evil eye, eyes are the windows to our souls)? What role does your sensory mode have in one or
more cultures? (It is argued that some centuries in Western cultures were dominated by
visual or so-called scopic regimes -- what does that mean?)
a) Conduct Ypres-like research about that sensory mode. For exteroceptive senses, a good place to start is to
refer to Diane Ackerman's book A Natural History of the Senses. For interoceptive senses, a good place to
start is to refer to Drew Leder's The Absent Body. You will be confronted with a seemingly insurmountable
task -- to find and plow through an immense amount of information, and to make sense of it in a concise
but not dumbed-down manner. My advice is to maintain a hard-core, laser-like focus. Find the information
you need in the burning building, grab it, and get the heck out. One aspect of this assignment is for you to
figure out ways to quickly locate the best, most up-to-date knowledge from diverse domains, to determine
who the major players (theorists, scientists) are, what the main issues are, where exemplary works of
art, design, media or computing are, how to digest it all, and how to brainstorm ideas about that sense modality.
These are incredibly important skills.
Week Two January 19: The Substrate of Sensory Experience: Intero- and Exteroception
Topics for discussion:
Exteroception (Seeing, Tasting, Touching, Hearing, Smelling) and
Interoception (Proprioception, Temperature, Pain, Orientation, Kinesthetic Sense, Visceral Sense)
Technologies related to affective computing: biofeedback, GPS, accelerometers
Readings for next week:
Barnes’ reading Art or Humanities paper: Scientific paper:
Assignment:
Conduct an “autopsy” of one Art or Humanities paper and one scientific paper (see readings above).
Bring the results of your autopsy in a form that can be easily shared with the rest of your colleagues in class.
Directions for conducting an autopsy:
Week Three January 26x: The Substrates of Perceptual Illusions and Neuroplasticity
Guest lecturer: Dr. Steven Barnes, nueroscientist & artist, UBC/SFU
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Week One January 12: Introductions to affective computing, course requirements and each other.
Readings for next week: The Emotional Self, Deborah Lupton: Introduction, Chapter 1 & Chapter 3 Affective Computing, Rosalind Picard, Introduction & Chapter 1
Assignments:
Add information about yourself and your interests + ideas you’d like to explore on class wiki.
Reports regarding “the senses” assigned. Refer to wiki for reporting requirements.
--- Week Two January 19: The Substrate of Sensory Experience: Intero- and Exteroception
Topics for discussion:
Basics of perceptual illusions and neuroplasticity. Technologies related to affective computing: mirrors, electrical stimuli, VR
Readings for next week: Affective Computing, Rosalind Picard Karon MacLean’s Creature
Assignment: locate an example of a perceptual illusion: a work of art, design or media (or cultural phenomenon). Create a 3 page slideshow: page 1, cite the work & include an image or sound from it; page 2, your analysis; page 3, articulate an idea for a work you would want to create, relating to perceptual illusions or neuroplasticity.
Suggested Readings for the course.
Affective Computing, Rosalind Picard http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1876254 (Full text available online)
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2461966
Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling . . . , Tom Igoe and Dan O'Sullivan http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b3872653 (Full text available online)
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, Brian Massumi http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2483710 (Full text available online)
The Absent Body, Drew Leder http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1465856
Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, Elizabeth A. Wilson http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b3617961 (Full text available online)
The Affect Theory Reader, Melissa Gregg & Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b5532632
The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward . . . B. ALan Wallace http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2137665 (Full text available online)
The emotional self : a sociocultural exploration, Deborah Lupton http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1904667