Computer Science / BCS 530

Methods in Data-Enabled Research: Sensing in the Wild

Instructor: M. Ehsan Hoque

Fall 2015

Date Topic Readings Resources
11/9/2015 Facial expressions Theory "Automated Face Analysis for Affective Computing" by Jeffrey F. Cohn and Fernando De La Torre, in The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing, Eds. Rafael Calvo, Sidney D'Mello, Jonathan Gratch, and Arvid Kappas FaceTracker, Leap Motion, Microsoft Kinect (Windows only), AFFDEX SDK (windows only)
11/11/2015 Hands on exercises    
11/16/2015 Speech Processing Capture-Time Feedback for Recording Scripted Narration, Video, Homework 1 Praat, Penn Forced Aligner
11/18/2015 Crowd Computing PlateMate: Crowdsourcing Nutrition Analysis from Food Photographs,Slides, Homework 2  
11/23/2015 Crowd Computing (cont) Duolingo  
11/25/2015 No class (Thanksgiving)    
11/30/2015 Wearable Computing Slides, Wearable Computing Video, The invention of first wearable computer
12/2/2015 Students presentation    
12/7/2015 Students presentation