Wendy Ju is an associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the information science field at Cornell University. She is also on the faculty at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on “The Design of Implicit Interactions” was published in 2015.
Designing Advanced Interactive DevicesCornell Course
Course Overview
In this course you will start to use the Raspberry Pi for the first time. The Raspberry Pi is like a small version of a regular computer except that you can choose all the components that you want to use with it. You can connect your self-built circuits to it in much the same way that you do with the Arduino.
In this course you will learn how it is possible to add other devices such as microphones, speakers, displays to the Raspberry Pi. When adding external devices, it is important to find and incorporate the associated software to drive them, so you will learn how to do this through a series of practical exercises. In the project you will design your own interactive device using both the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino.
Due to the applied nature of this program, you will be sent a kit of electrical components and microcontrollers before the start of your course.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Designing a Simple Interactive System
- Expanding Interactive Systems With Devices and Libraries
- Designing Complex Sensing and Functions in Interactive Systems
- Building Actuated Interactive Devices
Key Course Takeaways
- Initialize your Raspberry Pi and configure the device to communicate via a network connection
- Use the Raspberry Pi with a display or with a connection to a laptop or desktop computer
- Establish connectivity between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino
- Incorporate open-source libraries to extend the functionality of a basic RPi system
- Conduct modular debugging of a complex system in order to find and resolve issues
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Who Should Enroll
- Engineers
- Research and design professionals
- Product designers and developers
- Software engineers
- Electronics hobbyists
- Designers/artists with the appropriate background
- Entrepreneurs
- Career starters
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