The Project's Goals

The Big Picture

Currently, this institution insulates its students from, to quote our faculty advisor William G. Griswold, "the amazing things that go on here." The goal of Campus of the Future is to bring to light the research that goes on every day in a unique, exciting way.

The Campus of the Future project focuses on UCSD's very own Computer Science and Engineering Department. The TIES team will use technology to create a more social and knowledgeable environment. People within and around the UCSD community know little of what is going on at the university. If important research or discoveries are occurring, many people would not know, evey within UCSD. Thus, the project hopes to use technology to share this information with the students, staff, faculty, and the community to make everyone feel like they are part of the amazing things that occur here.

To do this, a TIES team will help create a number of Interactive Public Displays (IPD) which will convey to students what goes on behind department walls. The CSE department will be the testing grounds for this project.

Concept Art

Actual Displays

Spring 2008 Goals

• Research the target audience - What do they want to see on the IPD? How will they perceive it?
• Interviews with CSE students and faculty
• Observations of Interaction with Displays
• Research software aesthetics
• Createing the user input - What's the best most feasible method of interaction?
• Web cam
• S.O.A.P Mouse
• Wii Pen
• Create and refine software - What kind of applications best help promote social interaction?
• Displaying media
• Refining the software

Winter 2008 Goals

• Research the target audience - What do they want to see on the IPD?
• Surveys
• Interviews
• Observe
• Establish model for user input - What's the best way for users to interact with the IPD?
• Web cam
• Gyroscopic mouse
• Noise canceling microphone array
• Propose software solutions - What kind of software solution are we thinking about?
• Displaying media
• Getting media onto the displays

This page last updated: May 21, 2008 1:00 AM