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 Complex Sensing and Functions in Interactive SystemsCornell Course
Course Overview
In this course you will explore how to use complex sensing and display components with your microcontroller board. You will continue to become acquainted with some of the exciting sensors and other components available to you when you want to design a new system.
Another main theme in this course is designing interactive behaviors using state diagrams. Behind every great user interface, there is a well-conceived and well-implemented diagram that describes what states the system gets into and how the system transitions from one state to another as the user interacts with the device.
In the course project, you will explore a variety of sensors and a graphical display. Hand in hand with this, you will develop greater fluency in the use of software- and hardware-based modules, which will enable you to approach new components that come onto the market and understand how to use them and their associated software.
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
Key Course Takeaways
- Use a variety of complex sensing and output components
- Use timing and communication functions of a microcontroller
- Design simple behaviors and states for interactive systems
- Use state diagrams that define complex system behaviors
- Capture, store, and display data
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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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