T-106.850 - Seminar on Software technology (2-6 cr) P V

Suomeksi Svenska

Contents:

The contents of this course vary. Please see http:// www.cs.hut.fi/opinnot/T-106.850 for the information about sem­inar sessions.

Prof Eljas Soisalon-Soininen, Prof Jorma Tarhio and Prof Lauri Malmi

Seminars of spring 2007

Health training prototyping

Development of applications based on EMG clothes, floor with electric sensors etc. mobile and ubicomp technology.

Seminars of autumn 2006

Health training

Seminars of spring 2006

Home 2015

Keywords: domestic appliances, consumer electronics, entertainment electronics, housework, home work, telework, leisure and lifestyle services, family as a target user group, future home, mobile programming, ubicomp.

Home automation and entertainment have been researched from multitude of viewpoints: networking, electronics engineering, gaming, sociology, interior decoration, archtecture... The challenge lies in forming a structured understanding from all such scattered information.

The ultimate is to find services instead of fancy technology or fascinating intuitive theories. This requires familiarizing oneself with the existing research and systematical work.

Student groups focus on modelling scenarios, services, use cases and realizations. As background material the students will use literature, technological reports, scifi, movies, games, latest results of artificial intelligence and robotics, advances in sociology and psychology, studies on users etc. The key idea is to discover the long term consequences of evolving technologies, enables and changes in lifestyles. This requires systematical research work, mere brainstorming, introspection and intuition are worthless.

The aim of this seminar is to teach product development methodologies, working in a heterogeneous team of experts and systematic scientific analysis. Application area is mobile and ubiquitous computing. The work is done in the pre-product development phase, i.e., in the phase when the user groups are not known, technology is still evolving and ways making profit still have to be found.

The seminar offers challenges to programming gurus, automation experts, content producers as well as usability experts. You may be a geek, nerd, hippie, guru or just an ordinary person, you are welcome to find new possibilities in this seminar.

Seminars of Autumn 2005

Finding requirements for leisure services

PM&RG research group

Keywords: requirements engineering, hobbyism, services for mobile communities, leisure and lifestyle services, user/customer needs, program specifications, contextual inquiry, contextual design, mobile programming, ubicomp.

In order to be a real programmer and not a mere code writer an engineer has master designing software. The first step is to find out what is needed, i.e., the requirements. The seminar addresses this topic. Various methods will be introduced and students will learn when and where to apply them.

The study assignments will be in the area of mobile and ubiquitous computing. In particular the focus is on communal services related to hobbies, leisure time and lifestyle.

The seminar offers challenges to programming gurus, hobby enthusiasts, content producers as well as usability experts. You may be a geek, nerd, hippie, guru or just an ordinary person, you are welcome to find new possibilities in this seminar.

Seminars of Spring 2005

Study cluster on vertical handover