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Classes in Human-Computer Interaction at Hasso Plattner Institute
Welcome to the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute, led by Prof. Dr. Patrick Baudisch. To use it register yourself using your HPI user name as login and register with your HPI email address. Read the lab manifesto (and shop addendum), practice wiki editing using the wiki's preview function, then edit whatever you can make better. Here is a place to upload and share. For questions regarding this wiki contact Martin Taraz.
HCI Classes for Bachelor and Masters
Pandemic notice: all of our teaching activities _will_ take place. See the respective pages for
- 2024 Summer
- Lecture: Building Interactive Systems (Bachelors)
- 2023 Winter
- Lecture: Building Interactive Devices (Bachelors)
- Lecture: Algorithmic Folding (Masters)
- 2023 Summer
- Lecture: Building Interactive Systems (Bachelors)
- 2022 Winter
- Lecture: Building Interactive Devices (Bachelors)
- Lecture: Algorithmic Folding (Masters)
Available Master theses topics
- very raw collection of topics we are thinking about
Hardware Prototyping Tools
VR & tracking
- Oculus Rifts VR gear to experience 360° visual feedback
- Optitrack tracking system allows you to track object and people in space
- iOS devices iOS devices to test mobile applications
- vive-tracker Vive Markers can do 6DoF Tracking easy and quickly
Fabrication machines
- Laser cutter allows you to make boxes, gears and many other assemblies from acrylic quickly
- Glowforge Pro laser cutter smaller 19.5”-width consumer-level laser cutter that can be used in enclosed rooms
- LaOS Open Source Laser cutter smaller A4 laser cutter that uses the LaOS board for real-time commands
- How to build a projector-tripod-setup from acrylic
- Ultimaker 2+ & 3 Printer allows you to make 3D parts from different materials and is usually reliable.
- Ender 3 3D printer. It's cheap ($200), hackable and reliable.
- MakerBot 3D Printer allows you to make 3D parts. Is Open Source and thus hackable.
- Dimension 3D Printer allows you to make 3D parts. While slower and more expensive than the laser, it can do more
- Titan1 DLP/SLA 3D Printer allows you to make 3D parts. It uses liquid resin and is based on stereolithography. For high-resolution parts.
- Cricut Vinyl Cutter gives you a computer controllable knife that you can use to cut out stickers, score cardboard or fabric.
- Milling Machine open source 3-axis milling machine for subtractive fabrication
- Robotic Arm ABB IRB 120 6-axis Robotic Arm
Touch-sensitive surfaces
- MultitoeFloor here is how to maintain the projector and other components
- Fiberio here is how to setup and calibrate fiberio
- surface here is how to maintain the Microsoft Surface
- Gadgeteer inventory list
Software Infrastructure
- How to run Mac OS X on a Windows 7 machine, allows you to develop iPhone apps on your PC
- How to setup Kinect on Windows
- How to access Q:/ on laptop at HPI or elsewhere
- How to access Q:/ from home via a SSH tunnel or VPN
- How to schedule a meeting using Outlook Web Access (OWA)
- How to update the wiki wiki++
- How to access advanced compute resources (cluster, GPUs, RAM, …)
- Computer Vision allows you to extract information from video, e.g. for object detection and tracking
Know-how for PhD students and Guests
- How to organize Conference Travel
- How to prepare ACM-compliant camera-ready PDF using Word for Mac
