PV160
HCI Lab + Visit Lab
List of topics, spring 2021
Spectatorship Experience
Spectating other people playing games has become
a mass phenomenon over the last years
This can range from small gatherings around the
family table following a card or board game to large
e-sport events attracting up to millions of viewers
This raises new design challenges for HCI:
● How can spectator experiences be facilitated in order to
pro-actively involve spectators instead of being passive
observers?
● How can an approach look like to make games more
accessible for the audience, to spark interest, and to
stimulate a feeling of togetherness?
• https://seegamesws.wordpress.com/
• https://esportshci.wordpress.com/
Contact - Simone
In-Game Visualization
Visualizations in games become more and more important in
order to give feedback and as UI element
The Game UI Database was developed as a free resource for
UI/UX designers in the games industry with the goal
● to discovery new inspiration
● to provide reference materials
Goal:
● To analyze the Game UI database regarding visualizations
which are used as part of game interfaces
● The different games and screenshots in the database
should be categorized according to the used visualizations
● The visualizations should be analyzed with respect to
different criteria such as purpose, genre, tasks, year, and
others
● This is part of an open master topic “In-Game Visualization
Browser“
Contact - Simone
Contact - Simone
User Interface for Virtual Reality
● Universal UI for VR Apps
● Interactive:
○ “Physically” & via pointer
● Unity
Contact: Vojta
Interactable Trajectory Visualization
in Virtual Reality
● Be able to create
and edit at runtime
● Unity
Contact: Vojta
Objects Grouping and Highlighting
in VRdeo
● Group and ungroup objects
● Highlight in 3D
● Unity
Contact: Vojta
Custom Interactive Models
of Virtual Reality Controllers
● Highlight individual buttons
● Labels (“Tutorial”)
● Unity
Contact: Vojta
VR Paraglide
a) simple “physics” of paraglide
b) “flythrough” - log, analysis, ...
+ Basic controls in VR
Suitable for bachelor thesis
Contact: Jirka, Vojta
Collaborative VR
● Various topics related to networking and VR
○ Related to voice chat, e.g. speaker highlighting
○ ...
Contact: Jirka, Vojta
E-Learning
● System for automatic correction of short PB009
programming assignments
● Suitable for bachelor/master thesis
Contact: Jan
Selection Schemes for CAVER Analyst
● Reimplementation of techniques presented in
○ MolFind – Integrated Multi-Selection Schemes for Complex Molecular
Structures
Contact: Jan
Filtering UI
● Implementation of UI for filtering panels in
CAVER Analyst
Contact: Jan
Custom Editor for Prefabricator in UE4
● Edit Prefabricator assets in a separate window
○ experience how tools programming in gamedev works
○ sadly no documentation
○ good understanding of C++ required
○ https://prefabricator.dev/
Contact: Jan
Ball-and-stick billboarding in Unity URP
● Task: Implement billboarded ball-and-stick model for
real-time rendering of large molecules
● Technology: Unity, Universal Render Pipeline
● Deliverables:
○ Unity project presenting an extensible & well-documented algorithm(s)
able to render a large molecule with a ball-and-stick model:
■ using a 3D geometry,
● Can be unoptimized, primarily for reference.
■ using billboards / imposter rendering.
● Should have a good performance.
Contact: David
Exploring VR on the web
● Task: Examine WebXR standard and relevant frameworks for
development of web-based VR apps
● Technology: JavaScript
● Deliverables:
○ Document / mind map summarizing existing frameworks, which can
provide some kind of VR experience via a web browser
○ Each framework above will be accompanied by a description of its
capabilities, links to useful tutorials or documentation
○ A working example of a web-based VR scene allowing the user to move
around and interact with some of the things in the scene
Contact: David
Vivern: extending the capabilities
● Task: Extend Vivern (VR application for DNA origami
modeling) with new features
○ Exact features to be agreed on with the supervisor
○ Suggestions:
■ Inter-lattice connections
■ Scaffold routing / auto stapling
■ Cadnano export
● Technology: Unity, C# [# sign in this font is really bad :D]
● Deliverables:
○ Vivern application with selected features implemented
Contact: David
Modeling a hillclimb road course / race track for
Assetto Corsa racing simulator
● Task: Create a playable race track for Assetto Corsa game
○ Real-world inspired course is preferred
○ In case of selecting hillclimb road course suggested by supervisor,
GPS recordings and real photos can be provided
● Technology: any 3D graphics editor, official game editor
● Deliverables:
○ 3D model of a racetrack and surroundings
○ Racetrack data which can be directly imported into the game and
played without major issues
Contact: David
Creating a fully playable Left 4 Dead 2 level
● Task: Create a playable level/mission for Left 4 Dead 2
○ Covers all tasks from assembling a level (from own or existing
assets), through placement of enemies and items up to enriching the
level with custom music
● Technology: Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools
● Deliverables:
○ Mission (and relevant data) which can be imported into the game and
played
Contact: David
(Alpha)numeric input in VR
● Task: Design and implement several approaches for
(alpha)numeric input in VR
● Technology: Unity
● Deliverables:
○ Results of research of existing approaches
○ Unity VR project with a simple scene containing a text field for the
user input
○ At least 5 different ways how to input purely numeric values
■ Numeric VR keyboard, touchpad-controlled “menu”, ???
○ At least 5 different ways how to input alphanumeric values
■ VR keyboard, speech-to-text, ???
○ Physical keyboard of the computer does not count :-)
Contact: David
Components for visualization of MRI data
● Implement one of the following:
○ Rulers and orientation tools
○ Selection interface
○ Image enhancement interface
● Technology: Three.js
Contact: Tomáš
Visualization of complex-valued images
● Task:
○ Explore possibilities of
visualization of complex-valued
images
● Technology: Three.js
Contact: Tomáš
Medical data visualization using Electron
● Task: Create desktop apps out of some
of Three.js examples and evaluate
performance
● Technology: Electron, Three.js
● Deliverables:
○ Compiled applications
○ Performance report
Contact: Tomáš
Tracking user interactions in AMI
● Task: Implement a system to log
information about user interaction in
the Three.js library
● Technology: AMI, Three.js
Contact: Tomáš
Import radiotherapy data in DICOM
● Task: Import of medical data in DICOM
format into visual analytics
application for radiotherapy:
○ organ segmentations (contours to volumes)
○ radiotherapy plan
○ CTs
● Technology: Java,
https://medevel.com/dicom-frameworks-libraries/
● Deliverables: Import module + GUI
Contact: Katka
Visualization of differences in soft tissue vs. bony
registration
● Task: Visualization of differences in detected positional
changes when using different rigid registration methods
○ Data preprocessing (bone segmentation, e.g., in MeVisLab)
○ Visualization of registration method impact on treatment planning
● Technology: Java
Contact: Katka
Deformable organ registration
● Task: Implement a registration method for detection of
patient organ deformations in time
○ Generation of control points on organ surfaces
○ Registration
○ Motion visualization
● Technology: Java, possibly OpenCV
Contact: Katka
Visualization for radiotherapy patient education
● Task: Design and implement methods for communication with
and education of radiotherapy patients
● Technology: Up to you
Contact: Katka
Map visualization of measurement sites in
Antarctica
● Task: Create map visualization of
snow height measurement sites at
Mendel Polar Station in Antarctica
● Technology: Vue.js, Two.js, D3.js
● Deliverables:
○ Vue.js component
Contact: Matěj
Minimap for long charts
● Task: Create minimap for time
series charts, showing current
view
● Technology: Vue.js, Two.js
● Deliverables:
○ Vue.js component
Contact: Matěj
3D view in the Loop Grafter
● Background: Interactive visual
support for novel protein
design method
● Task: The current protein 3D
visualization is lacking.
Refactor current implementation
to use the Mol* library and
implement basic interactions
Contact: Kiraa
Loop Grafter 2: The Loop Graftest
● Background: Interactive
visual support for novel
protein design method
● Task: Adapt the existing
Loop Grafter tool for
alternative workflow
● Suitable as Bc/Mgr thesis
Contact: Kiraa
Contacts:
● David = David Kuťák, kutak@mail.muni.cz
● Jan = Jan Byška, byska@mail.muni.cz
● Jirka = Jiří Chmelík, jchmelik@mail.muni.cz
● Palko = Pavol Ulbrich, palko@mail.muni.cz
● Simone = Simone Kriglstein, kriglstein@mail.muni.cz
● Tomáš = Tomáš Pšorn, psorn@mail.muni.cz
● Vojta = Vojtěch Brůža, bruza@mail.muni.cz
● Kiraa = Filip Opálený, kiraa@mail.muni.cz
● Katka = Katarína Furmanová furmanova@mail.muni.cz