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

Fall 2009 Goals

• Motion Detection Software - Human Computer Interaction
• Get Motion detection code
• Flash and Actionscript3.0
• iPhone Application: Class Calendar
• Create application for UCSD classes and events
• Creating 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

This page last updated: October 22, 2009 1:00 AM