Virtual Worlds
Code
722011065
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
António Câmara (FCT/UNL)
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The Virtual Worlds course is based on a set of seminars on technologies associated to the Web, virtual worlds, augmented reality, and intelligent objects. The students are encouraged to develop prototypes, and also pitch presentations for potential clients/investors.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Introduction. Idea generation. Collective intelligence, Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Intelligent objects. Robotics. Ubiquitous computing. Technologies and new storytelling approaches. Prototyping (software). Prototyping (hardware). Business plans. Crowdfunding. Future developments. Presentation of final projects.
Bibliography
Adam Greenfield, Everyware, New Riders, Berkeley, 2006
Antonio Camara, Environmental Systems, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences, Morgan Kauffman, Burlington, 2010
Oliver Bimber e Ramesh Raskar, Spatial Augmented Reality, AK Peters, Natick, 2005
Toby Segaran, Programming Collective Intelligence, O´Reilly, Sebastopol, 2007
Teaching method
This course is designed to inspire creation and then to teach how to create prototypes. The lecture, reading and evaluation components are the three stage approach required to accomplish those goals.
Evaluation method
The evaluation is based on the development of a prototype.