Students will form small multi-disciplinary groups that will conduct one research
project throughout the semester. While there will be 3 project checkpoints
during the semester, only the final version of the project will be graded.
At each checkpoint, the current status of the projects will presented and
discussed in class. The goal of the project is for you to produce a
research paper suitable for submission to a conference.
Schedule (due dates):
Possible Projects
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Better mouse for kids. Current mouse at not well
adapted to kid hands. They are also too sensitive which make it
difficult for kids to keep the mouse still while clicking on the mouse
button. What can be done to fix this problem?
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Better mouse for the older users. What will be
the perfect mouse for older users, who might move the mouse slower than
other users, have difficulty with buttons and be impedes by small
tremors?
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Better document navigation for Tablet PCs. How
one can improve digital document navigation on a Tablet PC. Can we go
beyond the page-up, page-down buttons (For example see
this paper on
manipulative interface)?
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A digital drawing table. Using
this study on how
people draw as a starting point, is it possible to design a better
digital drawing table?
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Better text input mechanisms for small devices.
How can we improve text entry for our cell phones, PDAs and pocket PCs?
Example of
projects with the correct scope
Send your project idea(s) to
francois@cs.umd.edu!
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