PV160
HCI Lab + Visit Lab
Semester Kickoff Meeting,
Spring 2024
Course Basics
● Individual or team work on research projects related to
HCI or Visit labs
● Each student has a “supervisor” to consult with
● Evaluation based on mid-semester and end-semester
presentations of your work
● No fixed teaching schedule, individual/team consultations
● Possible basis for long term cooperation - Bachelor,
Master theses
The LAB
● This room (A421)
● Opened 24/7, shared google calendar
● Equipment:
○ Stereoscopic projection screen
○ Motion Capture system
○ VR headsets: HTC Vive, Oculus/FB/Meta Quest, Pico Neo
○ 3D printer
○ Force Feedback devices
Goal of Today’s Meeting
● From the list of topics, select the one(s) of your
interest and discuss it (them) with the corresponding
supervisor(s).
● Today or in the following days (until Friday, March 1),
agree with a supervisor on your topic and discuss the
time schedule.
● After agreeing on the topic, you will be finally enrolled
in the course (you need to ask for permission through
information system).
Possible Topics
● List of prepared topics, will be presented by their
supervisors.
● You can come with your own idea for the project, we will
discuss them individually after the presentation today.
● Now take a notebook and mark titles and supervisors of
interesting topics…
(long) list of topics...
Hybrid Game
Hybrid events are playing an increasingly
important role. Conferences are organized where
participants can be present on site or online.
An essential part of this is networking,
exchanging ideas with others.
The idea is developing a game where offline and
online persons play together to solve puzzles in
a room or location. Only together they can solve
it. The idea is that they play it pairwise at
the same time - one online and one person who is
on site, e.g. by wearing the online buddy as a
necklace via smartphone.
PhotobyvisualsonUnsplash
Contact: Simone
PhotobyAntennaonUnsplash
Evaluation of Spectatorship Experience
Spectating other people playing games has become a mass phenomenon over
the last years
However, to the best of our knowledge, there exists less research on how
such approaches can be evaluated to assess if they provide a positive
spectatorship experience
We will focus on interactive possibilities for live streaming as first
step. We identified four use cases depending on the level of
disruption/involvement: 1) Viewing, 2) Chat interaction, 3) Stream
overlays/interaction, and 4) In-game interaction
Goal:
● Analyze already existing questionnaires (e.g., for player
experience) to identify which ones can be interesting for the
evaluation of spectatorship experience and how the identified
objective metrics and subjective metrics can correspond with them
● And if not how such questionnaires can look like
Contact: Simone
Evaluation of Gameplay Visualization Tool
Rose diagrams are useful for visualizing both magnitude and
direction values at the same time. As such they can also serve
as a valuable visualization for level designers to, for
instance, visualize the amount of hits coming from a
particular direction. Insights gained can then, in turn,
inform the design of a level.
The goal of this project is to evaluate an existing tool that
uses such rose diagrams with game designers, ideally level
designers.
Tasks thus include preparing the data for the study
● developing a study protocol
● recruiting around 10 level/game designers
● conducting interviews with them
The interviews should consist of predefined tasks and
open-ended questions to understand performance and gather
feedback on usefulness, benefits, and drawbacks as well as
insights gained.
Contact: Simone
Quantified self at work and digital humanism
Quantified-self technologies (QSTs) "those technologies that help
people collect personally relevant information for the purpose of
self-reflection and gaining self-knowledge" (Li et al., 2010)
Aim and task: Development of a self-tracking tool to improve
productivity at work. Integrate a set of design (gamification)
elements into it and test the acceptance of these elements.
Investigate the extend to which these elements create "conditions
of worth" or support "self-reflection".
Relevant work:
● Choe, E. K., Lee, N. B., Lee, B., Pratt, W., & Kientz, J. A. (2014). Understanding quantified-selfers'
practices in collecting and exploring personal data. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems, 1143–1152. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557372
● Avrahami, D., Williams, K., Lee, M. L., Tokunaga, N., Tjahjadi, Y., & Marlow, J. (2020). Celebrating
Everyday Success: Improving Engagement and Motivation using a System for Recording Daily Highlights.
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376369
● Sailer, M., Hense, J. U., Mayr, S. K., & Mandl, H. (2017). How gamification motivates: An experimental
study of the effects of specific game design elements on psychological need satisfaction. Computers in
Human Behavior, 69, 371–380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.033
● Feng, S., Mäntymäki, M., Dhir, A., & Salmela, H. (2021). How Self-tracking and the Quantified Self Promote
Health and Well-being: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(9), e25171.
https://doi.org/10.2196/25171
Photo by Pixabay
Contact: Simone
Mini Game for Esports Training
E-Sport players need to practice the skills
necessary for optimal performance. We are
already looking at mental health and
teamwork. But do you have any other brilliant
ideas?
Your task would be working with us to design and develop
a minigame oriented around training some important life
skill for esports players. We also need to develop means
of reliably accessing the data from this minigame for
research purposes and to track skill development. We can
discuss VR as an option as well.
Photo: Yan Krukov from Pexels
https://www.pexels.com/photo/gaming-setup-for-competit
ive-esports-9072394/
Contact: Simone + Danielle
Mobile Augmented Reality Mini Games
Mobile augmented reality games have gained
significant popularity due to their ability
to blend virtual experiences with the real
world, creating immersive gaming
environments.
Aim and task: Design and development of an Mobile
augmented reality (MAR) mini-game. We will also evaluate
and analyse existing MAR games to create a repository
for comparison of different HCI principles like
interaction, usability, interface design etc.
Photo: Mika Baumeister on Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/photos/person-holding-silver-ipho
ne-6-sWVAxoLmIzY
Contact: Vinaya
Game-based Learning APP for Arithmetic (Unity)
A demonstrator for an Adaptive Learning Technology called ADLETE
Dyscalculia is a learning disability in mathematics: Children might
display deficits in accurate or fluent calculation and many others[1]
Contact: Flo
[1] Luoni, C., Scorza, M., Stefanelli, S., Fagiolini, B., & Termine, C. (2023). A Neuropsychological Profile of Developmental Dyscalculia: The
Role of Comorbidity. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 56(4), 310–323. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222194221102925
[2] Athlete Adaptive Learning Engine Available From: https://gitlab.com/adaptive-learning-engine/arithmetic-demo
● Summarise current
examples of
Dyscalculia Apps.
● Develop a game-based
learning App in Unity
● Creating basic
Exercise Types
● Connect with the
ADLETE Framework.[2]
2 + 3
5 6 4
Aphasia Rehabilitation APP (Web-App)
A demonstrator for an Adaptive Learning Technology called ADLETE
Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or
comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write.[1]
Contact: Flo
[1] National Aphasia Association [online]. [visited on 2022-11-09]. Available from: https://www.aphasia.org/.
[2] Athlete Adaptive Learning Engine Available From: https://gitlab.com/adaptive-learning-engine/arithmetic-demo
Speech Therapist Service Layer
Bachelor's Thesis
PETER GREGUS
User Interface for Patients in
Speech Therapist
Bachelor's Thesis
MAREK JUSKO
Extend Project by:
● Think about what
difficulty means
in this context?
● Creating new
Exercise Types
● Connect with the
ADLETE Framework.
(PHD-Project by
Flo [2])
● Background: Blender is an open-source
3D modelling tool. Polygoniq
● Task: Implement one of our suggestions
or your own idea.
○ Make a procedural animation of a growing
tree/flower out of a botaniq asset
○ Make an addon for "visual diff" mesh
comparison (two meshes, highlights the
difference, take inspiration in MeshGit)
○ Figure out how to serialize .blend files into
text
● Possibly suitable as Bc./Mgr. Thesis
● Possible collab with polygoniq :)
Blender addon implementing [idea]
Contact: Filip
Player Dynamics
How can playing together affect relationships?
Bonding in online communities, live-streams,
etc.
● Design a multiplayer game with variants of
the main mechanics:
○ Cooperative
○ Competitive
○ One against the rest
○ One leading the rest…
● Implement in Godot using existing framework
● (Future work) Compare the effects of the
variants on relationships in the community
Contact:
Tomáš
From https://youtu.be/qvHRbKL6Fds
Audience Avatars in Live-Streams
Background: Make streams hybrid events closer to
offline events by representing the participants
using animated avatars.
Task:
● Design various animated avatars and
evaluate how they look in a crowd, OR
● Design/Program ways of grouping or
abstracting large crowds of avatars, OR
● Program ways to control the avatars, OR
● Program atmospheric elements such as
background color or aggregate sound effects
based on audience mood
Contact:
Tomáš
ImGUI Builder
1. XML based integration
for ImGUI
○ Bc./Mgr. theses possible
2. Visual Studio (Code)
integration
○ Bc./Mgr. theses possible
Contact: Jan
Practical Assignments for PA010
Contact: Katka
● Assignment = task implementation in C++ framework.
● Available tasks:
Edge collapse
simplification
Doo-Sabin Subdivision
And more...
ICP registration
Mesh deformation
Digital Pathology
Contribute to a WSI viewer
- viewing gigapixel images realtime
- deployed for hospital & AI research
- international-level impact (European Biobank and more)
- possible Bc./ Mgr. thesis, part of BioMedAI project
- arbitrary level of engagement: no prior knowledge required,
(JavaScript is advantage), both simple and advanced tasks
OpenSeadragon
Contact: JH
Digital Pathology
(Some) Possible Tasks:
- Modular WebGL renderer for OpenSeadragon
- contribute to a well-known and popular library
- Annotation system improvements
- HCI with pathologists, UI improvement, rotation, layers, IO..
- History system design
- Undo & Redo across the plugins
- Node.js server
- Simpler runs on a localhost, integration with computational notebooks
- Real-time user collaboration
- just like in google docs
More tasks available! Contact: JH
Interacting with data visualizations
playfully can increase their
understandability.
Your task will be to develop interactive versions of
four visualization types - Line chart, Area chart,
Stacked area chart, and Stream graph. The implementation
will be done using the Unity game engine, focusing on
interactivity and user experience. Implemented features
should allow users to zoom, pan, and view specific data
points or time frames.
Unity interactive data visualizations
Contact: Megi
3D Printing - HCI accessories
while(not success):
{
1. Real-life measurements
2. 3D design
3. 3D print
4. Real-life usage test
}
Contact: Jirka
Motion Capture Usage
Get familiar with Motion Capture technology.
Design and create a short demonstration of
capabilities of this technology
● Capture 3D data and video footage
● Perform basic clean-up of MoCap data
● Use MoCap data in, e.g.:
○ blender
○ Unity engine
○ Unreal engine
Contact: Jirka
3D Modeling in VR - survey
Explore and compare existing
SW solutions for creating 3D
models directly in VR.
● Gravity Sketch,
● SculptrVR,
● Medium,
● Blocks,
● Packages for Unity,
● etc.
Contact: Jirka
Students Games Launcher
Design and implement an application for
easy launching titles from growing library
of students games.
The launcher will be used at promotion
events, such as Game Access conference or
Open Days.
● Get inspired by existing launchers.
● Design representative visuals.
● Extensible, open-source implementation.
● Games data will be provided.
Contact: Jirka and Adam
Assembling ATP enzyme in VR and desktop app
Create an app to assemble enzyme that moves
afterwards; VR (1 student) desktop app (1 students).
● Based on 3D printed model of enzyme
● To be used in study for modality comparison
Contact: Hana and Jirka
Designing protein for 3D printing
Application to bring in protein
channels, hinges, etc… to create an
.stl object that can be exported and
3D printed for use in lab.
● UX/UI
● .stl export
● Collaboration with Beata the Protein
Lady
Contact: Hana and Bara
Geovisto – A Geovisualisation Authoring Tool
● Background: Geovisto is a TypeScript
mapping library for generic geospatial
data visualizations created by FI &
FIT.
● Tasks:
○ Extend the functionality based on
current requirements
○ Design and conduct replicability
study
● Deliverable: An interactive web
application showcasing Geovisto’s
features.
● Note: Extendable to Bc/Mgr thesis
Contact: Vítek
Source
Gamifying Cybersecurity Education
Contact: Vítek
● Background: For educational activities
regarding usable security at MUNI, we
aim for creating interactive
activities that augment the seminars.
● Task: Design and prototype a gamified
activity on some topic related to
cyber- or information security
● Deliverable: An interactive web
application
● Note: Extendable to Bc/Mgr thesis
Educational Activities for PV182
Contact: Vítek
● Background: We want to enhance
lectures of the Introductory HCI
course (PV182).
● Task: Pick a topic, find/design an
activity and create the support
materials for both students and the
teacher.
● Deliverable: An interactive web
application/pen&paper activity/
● Note: Also for teams;
● Extendable to Bc/Mgr theses
FI MUNI in Minecraft… Now for real!
Background
We are working on the official FI MUNI
Minecraft server to help with publicity.
Topics
Several possibilities:
Minigames (programming, events…),
Minecraft UI plugin,
Generative entities (similar to)
…
Technology
Minecraft server plugins (Java)
Suitable for multiple people Contact: Vojta, Tomáš
Source
Background
In cooperation with The Spatial Lab from
University College Dublin.
Technology
Godot/Unity/Java(Minecraft)/Web/…
Goal
Support teachers in engaging discussion
about the topic.
Deliverable
An interactive experience
(a game or a visualization).
Game about Climate Change/Sustainability (Geo)
Contact: Vojta
Source
Contacts:
● Danielle = Danielle Langlois dlanglois@mail.muni.cz
● David = David Kuťák kutak@mail.muni.cz
● Filip = Filip Opálený kiraa@mail.muni.cz
● Flo = Florian Gnadlinger florian.gnadlinger@is.muni.cz
● Hanka = Hana Pokojná hpokojna@mail.muni.cz
● Jan = Jan Byška byska@mail.muni.cz
● Jirka = Jiří Chmelík jchmelik@mail.muni.cz
● JH = Jiří Horák xhorak8@fi.muni.cz
● Katka = Katarína Furmanová furmanova@mail.muni.cz
● Marek = Marek Trtík trtikm@mail.muni.cz
● Matěj = Matěj Lang langm@mail.muni.cz
● Megi = Magdaléna Kejstová makej@mail.muni.cz
● Tomáš = Tomáš Pagáč pagi@mail.muni.cz
● Simone = Simone Kriglstein kriglstein@mail.muni.cz
● Vítek = Vít Rusňák rusnak@ics.muni.cz
● Vojta = Vojtěch Brůža bruza@mail.muni.cz
● Bára = Bára Kozlíková kozlikova@fi.muni.cz
● Vinaya = Vinaya Tawde xtawde@fi.muni.cz
Questions?
Now it’s time for your questions, comments, own topics, and
individual discussions with supervisors of individual
topics …
Deadline for choosing a topic - including discussion with
supervisor:
Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:59 AM