Grading:

• Direct assessment
  • Class participation (10%)
    • Students will take part in lecture discussion, seminar presentation, and design workshop 
  • Assignment (10%)
    • Students will complete various writing tasks such as individual project proposals, AR/VR experience design, social implication analysis  
  • Two individual mini-projects (30%)
    • Students will complete two individual mini-projects, one on AR and one on VR, based on provided tutorial and guidance, and add at least one new feature for either visualization or interaction  
  • Mid-term group project (10%)
  • Final Project: 40% + 10% bonus
    • Low-fidelity prototype (3%): Use everyday materials such as paper, plastic film, glasses to illustrate and experiment with the design intent. Include the design rationale (why choose this particular design) and at least 3 different user scenarios (e.g. reveal social information, navigate in unfamiliar scenes)
      • Design of three distinct user scenario (e.g. in an online shopping website, user scenarios may include search product, compare product, add to cart, check out)
    • Working prototype (16%+6% bonus): Implement at least two user scenarios from the low-fidelity prototype:
      • Visual implementation (4% for each user scenario)
      • Interaction implementation (4% for each user scenario)
    • Bonus:
      • 2% extra for each additional user scenario (up to 6% extra in total)
    • Evaluation (3%)
      • Evaluate the working prototype with users outside of the team
    • Final oral presentation (5%) 12/5
      • Clear project presentation:
        • Project revisited (1%): problem statement, project goal, storyboard, team member work allocation
        • Low-fidelity prototype (1%)
        • Working prototype (1%)
      • Insightful discussion:
        • Main findings and future work (1%)
        • Appropriate reference in APA style (1%)
    • Final poster presentation (3%) 12/10
      • Content (2%): align with the oral presentation and final report
      • Presentation publicly at CS atrium (1%)
    • Project report (5% + 4% bonus): submit by midnight 12/14
      • Content: Extend the mid-term report with:
        • Design and implementation of low-fidelity prototype (2%)
        • Design and implementation of working prototypes (2%)
        • Main findings, implications, future work and conclusion (1%)
      • Bonus
        • Report in a conference template – e.g. ACM SIGCHI paper (1%)
        • Frameless demo (abstract submission 1%, demo 2%)
    • Media (5%): submit by midnight 12/14
      • Website (2%): An interactive media platform to archive and share your project work.
      • Video (3%): 2-3 minute video to showcase your project. The video should include a title slide, team member, date, project goal, low-fidelity and working prototype demonstration. Showcase video examples can be found here
  • (Optional) Students are encouraged to submit their work as a poster or work-in-progress paper to AR/VR related peer-reviewed conferences, or local, regional or national student research consortiums 
• Indirect assessment
  • Collect mid-term and end-term student surveys to evaluate students’ self-efficacy in fulfilling the learning objectives, and feedback on course content, instruction and projects

Class culture:

• Student-centered, inquiry-driven, collaborative
• Only use electronic devices (e.g. cell phone, laptop) for note-taking purposes

Attendance:

• If a student cannot attend the class due to a planned event (e.g. travel), s/he has to notify the instructor one week ahead of time. For unforeseen reasons (e.g. illness, family emergency), the student should let the instructor know before 9am on the day of the class. 
• If the student misses more than two classes, s/he should contact the instructor to discuss course make-up

Students with special needs:

• Set up a meeting with the student disability service office and meet with the course instructor to discuss necessary accommodation within the first two weeks

Academic honesty: 

All assignments and activities associated with this course must be performed in accordance with the University of Rochester's Academic Honesty Policy. More information is available at: www.rochester.edu/college/honesty

• For individual course assignments, students can discuss with classmates for questions related to the assignments. However, all written reports and coding for individual projects must be done independently, represent your own work and not be completed in collaboration with others. 
• For the group project, students are permitted and encouraged to share project materials with group members, and write the report as a group effort. Therefore it is important to understand that you are responsible for the academic integrity of the entire report, including contributions of other group members. To avoid potential problems with academic honesty (and to more fully engage in the project), you should be involved in various aspects of writing the report, and you should verify that citations are correct and that all text is accurately cited and not plagiarized. At the end of the project report, you are required to provide a clear statement of the contributions of each member of your group to the group activities. If you feel that problems are developing in your group project, you should come to see the instructor early, so that I can provide general guidance to group members to set your activities on the right course. As you are responsible for the entire assignment, it is incumbent upon each of you to ensure the integrity of the project.

Materials: 

• Class lending: 1 Oculus Rift, 2 Samsung Galaxy S8, 2 Samsung Galaxy Tab S4
• Library lending: Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard

Course technology:

• Course website: for updated syllabus
• Blackboard: assignment announcement, assignment (blog), forum discussion (assignment and project related discussion)
• Zoom: remote teaching sessions

Example course projects: