Team Practical Course on AR and VR Research (SS2019)
Description
In this course, teams of 4 to 6 students work on a research project focussing on Augmented or Virtual Reality (AR/VR). For this, they develop an AR or VR software to analyse and improve a certain aspect of the state-of-the-art AR/VR research. There will be predefined projects in the context of usability engineering with and for AR/VR. In each of the projects, a case study will be executed in which the developed AR/VR software will play a central role.
Depending on the concrete project, the students will learn how to use state-of-the-art technologies for AR or VR development, such as Unity3D, ARcore or the Virtual Reality Toolkit. In addition, the students shall apply their knowledge on software engineering and software quality assurance including agile development and testing.
Organisation
The course spans over the full semester and not only the lecture period. It will start on 15. April 2019, and last til 23. September 2019. The course is scheduled for Mondays 10:00am in room 0.101 in the at the Informatik-Provisorium - 0.101 (not in the Institute of Computer Science, but the containers on the parking lots).
In the first session, there will be an introduction to clarify the organisational issues of the course, to form the teams, and to assign the projects. Afterwards, in weekly meetings one member of each team has to present the current state of the project in short 15min presentations.
In the last session of the semester on 23. September 2019, the students give an overall project presentation and hand in a final report. The report shall be structured similar to scientific papers covering research questions, foundations, related work, descriptions of the approaches, a case study, and a discussion of the results.
The course language is English which also applies for the presentations and the final report.
Modules, Examination, and Prerequisites
The course fulfils multiple modules. Most of them represent the research related project works in the diverse fields of application of computer science that can be studied at our institute. The module M.Inf.1823 is dedicated to the course which allows to consider the course as key competency, as "Fachstudium Gruppe 3", or in application oriented system development. Choosing this module allows to fulfil the others with project works for preparing the final thesis. The numbers of all fulfilled modules are:
- M.Inf.1201
- M.Inf.1202
- M.Inf.1206
- M.Inf.1208
- M.Inf.1209
- M.Inf.1259
- M.Inf.1823
- M.Inf.1909
The course is not graded. Depending on the module selection, the number of gained credits varies between 10 to 12 ECTS. The examination is a combination of project presentations and the final report. Each student has to do at least two project status presentations during the semester. Furthermore, each student has to actively take part in the final project presentation at the end of the semester. Furthermore, each student has to contribute actively to the final report. There is mandatory attendance for the introduction and final presentation session. For the weekly meetings, only the attendance of at least one representative for each team is required.
The registration for the course in FlexNow must be done latest two weeks after the introduction session (i.e., on 29. April 2019). The students need to register for one of the above modules.