A Collection of Real-world Interactive System

[IMPORTANT] The 2025 content is significantly different from what is described on this website. Please refer to the syllabus for details.

Overview of this course

We are living in the age that the abilities of acquiring and analyzing real-world information, then creating systems to provide services tailored to individuals and specific groups are important. The goal of this course is for students to understand the latest research trends in interactive systems, the design concepts, the technologies behind them, and the capability to devise, design, then evaluate their own experiences in which humans are included in the system loop ultimately .

The lecture format is a pair of lectures and hands-on workshops. In the course, we will introduce the foundation of interactive system including sensing system, display system, and fabrication methods to integrate them together. then students will immediately experienced these system manually in the class.

Basic information of the course

Course name: Real-world Interactive System

Location: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University

Classroom time: Tuesday, 2nd period (10:45-12:15) in the fall semester

Faculty: Yuta Sugiura (Center for Information and Computer Science)

What you can learn and experience through the course

Understand interactive systems through the course
Through assignments, experience the entire process from idea generation -> prototyping -> improvement based on feedback from users -> release
Collaborative development with multiple people through group work using software such as GitHub
Experience other people's creations through demo exhibitions, and giving suggestions for improvement

Assignment: Mobile App Development

Students will work in groups to develop an application that can be used on popular mobile devices using Unity. Students will be expected to release their applications.

2024 Collection

In the year 2024, students practiced developing and releasing mobile apps through this course. This year, the course was held face-to-face, and the students participated in the demo sessions to try the apps.