From HIT Lab Australia
21 January – 1 February 2008
KXH112 Unit Overview
This unit will explore the exciting field of mixed reality and the advanced concepts and technologies for interfacing humans to complex machines. The course will focus on virtual interfaces and their potential impact on the way we think about computers and the way we think with them. Interface design principles will be reviewed from human factors and technological perspectives. Hardware, software and mindware aspects of virtual interfaces and virtual environments will be investigated and applications postulated and designed in the fields of medicine, education, design and entertainment. This unit is a companion unit to the Fundamentals of Interactive Entertainment (Digital Games and Animated Film). Both units are precursors to a new cross-disciplinary program in Human Interface Technology and Experience Engineering that is being started at the (proposed) HIT Lab Australia. The new major is an instructional companion to the organization of the Tasmania Research Centre of Human Interface Technology Laboratory in Australia. This Laboratory is linked to the HIT Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA and the HIT Lab NZ, located at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ and will promote the development of advanced human interfaces and media technologies.
This unit is offered by the HIT Lab Australia. The unit will be taught by staff members from the HIT Lab Australia as well as selected international experts from the Human Interface Technology Laboratories in New Zealand and the USA. Notable international authorities and staff from various UTAS schools, especially from the School of Computing, will also be
invited for lectures.
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