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IAT881: BioAffective Computing & Interactive Media

Spring 2011

Dr. Diane Gromala

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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.

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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:

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Week Three January 26x: The Substrates of Perceptual Illusions and Neuroplasticity

Guest lecturer: Dr. Steven Barnes, nueroscientist & artist, UBC/SFU

--- 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.

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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