I present Expo-Based Learning of interactive graphics, where we place the students in front of a large and diverse audience to present demonstration of their working projects created with Project-Based Learning methods.

1. KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY
Learning Interactive Graphics
through Huge Live Demos
Mario Romero, Assoc. Prof. HCI & Graphics
2017/01/18

2. Activities
• Research
• Education
• Outreach
Infrastructure
• Engineer
• Hardware
• Software
Visualization Studio VIC

3. • 4K wall
• HTC VIVE
• Oculus Rift
• 3D audio
• Multi-touch interactive
tabletop surfaces
• Eye tracking
• GPU-based computing cluster
• Haptic Devices
• 3D printers
• Epson Moverio
Technologies in the Studio

4. 1. The Studio

5. 2. The Students

6. Andreas Niklas Eric
Johan Robert Joakim Emil André Elvira Jonas
Students in Advanced Graphics and
Interaction 2012 (AGI12) in
ForskarFredag - 10

7. It’s all about the students
Students in Advanced Graphics and Interaction
2013 (AGI13) in the Visualization Studio VIC - 26

8. Students in Advanced Graphics and Interaction
2014 (AGI14) in the Visualization Studio VIC - 14
It’s all about the students

9. It’s all about the students
Students in Advanced Graphics and Interaction
2015 (AGI15) at ForskarFredag - 28

10. MS Students
Media Technology
Computer Science
AGI16 - 53

11. 3. The Learning

12. Expo-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning augmented with constructively
aligned public expos.
Focus on accountability and adaptability.
Build an object that becomes a portfolio.

13. Origins of the idea

14. ¡Hice lo que quise! (I did what I wanted!)
Nicholas Hogan - Space Bar ©2012Nicholas Hogan ©1992

15. Timeline

16. Week 1:
Form groups through discussion

17. 4K wall
4.00 x 2.40 m
10MP
60FPS
Project:
Northern Lights
13 M particles
Newtonian Gravity

19. Week 1:
Group Research

21. Week 2:
Proposals & Feedback

22. TowPow TD

23. Methods & Techniques

25. Week 3:
Hello World Demos

27. Week 5:
Researcher’s Friday

28. Working Prototype
User Evaluation
Evidence of Individual
Contribution
Deliverables

31. Week 6-8:
Implement Evaluation Findings

32. Week 9:
Comic Con

35. Embodied Sculpting

36. MegaMind Tekniska Museet – Forma i Luften
Hands-on interaction with 3D, haptics, sound

38. Base Jumper
Octree rendering
Computer vision body
control

39. SolarSense

40. PodRacer

41. Two Pacs

42. YA3

44. Mad Sand

45. TeamTris

46. BrARwl

47. Padawan 101

48. Blopper

49. InvadAR

50. DangeRoads

51. FaceUp

54. Week 10:
Reflect

55. “You have to be confident to explain to people this is what I have done, this is how it
works in a public environment. At KTH all the lab assignments are in front of the
computers which you know work. And the person you are presenting to knows what you
are doing. What we do in this course is present to people who don’t have the same
understanding of what you are doing. So you have to explain to people in a different
way. Also, it is much more likely to break if you are presenting for a long time to a lot of
people. You have to be sure that your code doesn’t break and know what to do when
your code breaks. It is most definitely worth the extra effort.”

56. Romero, M. , Thuresson, B., Peters, C., Kis, F., Coppard, J., Andrée, J. and Landazuri, N., 2014, June.
Augmenting PBL with large public presentations: a case study in interactive graphics pedagogy. In
Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Innovation & technology in computer science education (pp. 15-
20). ACM.

57. Thank you!
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