Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Courses

Codestrates - Literate Computing with Webstrates

Explore literate computing with Codestrates, blending prose and live computation for collaborative notebooks, extensible functionality, and reprogrammable applications built on Webstrates.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Qoom - An Interactive Omnidirectional Ball Display

Innovative spherical display system allowing interactive touch, rotation, and throwing. Explores applications in daily life, utilizing unique advantages of ball-shaped interfaces.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Interactive Room Capture on 3D-Aware Mobile Devices

Explore a novel system for interactive 3D room modeling using mobile devices, combining object recognition and augmented reality for quick, accurate, and effortless indoor space capture.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ImAxes - Immersive Axes as Embodied Affordances for Interactive Multivariate Data Visualisation

Explore ImAxes, an innovative immersive system for multivariate data visualization using embodied data axes. Learn about its fluid interaction, composability, and emergent visualizations for enhanced data analysis.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Fooling Your Senses - Super-Natural User Interfaces for the Ultimate Display

Explore perceptually-inspired interfaces and their potential to create immersive virtual experiences, challenging our understanding of reality and human-computer interaction.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Stylo and Handifact - Modulating Haptic Perception through Visualisations for Posture Training in Augmented Reality

Explore Stylo-Handifact, a visuo-haptic interface for posture training in AR. Learn about its design, effectiveness, and impact on haptic perception through experimental results and practical applications.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Analysing the Effect of Tangible User Interfaces on Spatial Memory

Explore how tangible user interfaces enhance spatial memory accuracy by 24.5% compared to touch-based GUIs, despite users' perceptions, in a study on interactive tabletops for building placement tasks.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Taking Haptic Design from Research to Practice

Exploring haptic design's transition from research to practice, focusing on tactile interactions, design languages, and tools for creating physical communication in various applications.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Gesture Elicitation Study on How to Opt-in & Opt-out from Interactions with Public Displays

Explore gesture-based interactions for opting in/out of public displays. Study reveals preferences, patterns, and implications for designing user-friendly and ethical interactive systems.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Personas and Behavioral Theories - A Case Study Using Self-Determination Theory to Construct Overweight Personas

Explore how Self-Determination Theory enhances persona creation for designing a digital weight loss coach, offering insights into user motivation and behavior change.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Seeing, Sensing and Recognizing Laban Movement Qualities

Explore computational models of expressive movement using Laban Movement Analysis, combining multimodal sensors and expert knowledge to recognize and characterize movement qualities for interactive applications.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Float - One-Handed and Touch-Free Target Selection on Smartwatches

Innovative wrist-to-finger input method for smartwatches enabling one-handed, touch-free target selection with high efficiency and precision using built-in sensors. Improves accuracy and usability in various contexts.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Investigating Tilt-based Gesture Keyboard Entry for Single-Handed Text Entry on Large Devices

Innovative tilt-based text entry method for single-handed use on large mobile devices. Achieves 15 WPM for novices, up to 32 WPM with practice. Offers alternative to typing when one hand is unavailable.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Synthetic Sensors - Towards General-Purpose Sensing

Explore general-purpose sensing with Synthetic Sensors, a versatile approach for monitoring diverse environmental aspects using a single enhanced sensor, offering cost-effective and unobtrusive IoT solutions.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Social Printers - A Physical Social Network for Political Debates

Explore how physical devices create pseudonymous social networks during televised political debates, encouraging viewer engagement and personal social experiences.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk