Course Schedule

Week 1:

Monday, June 26

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Historical: views of perception
    • Opening remarks and Virtural Reality overview (Brent)
    • History of Virtual Reality (Brent)
    • History of Music Technology (Craig)
    • Gestalt theory in historical context (Dan)
    • Behaviorial Psychology, Cognitive Psychology (Dan)
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
  • Group discussion: History of synthesis technology. With DX7, VL1, & NeXT demos (2:00-3:00)
  • Hands on events (in rotating groups) (3:00-4:00)
    • Tape-editing (Sile)
    • Protoboards, oscilloscopes, potentiometers (Craig and Brent)
    • Studio mixing (Dan)
  • Instrument Scour (4:00-4:10)
  • Convene in Studio for Event Recording. (4:15-5:00).

Tuesday, June 27

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Psychological:
    • Introduction to Projects (Brent)
    • Experiment design and execution (Dan)
    • Modern Gestalt theory with demonstrations (Dan)
    • Demonstrations of apparent motion (Dan)
  • Physiological:
    • Auditory Sensors . by Deborah Zetes, Applied Mechanics, Stanford
• Special Session (1:00-2:00):
  • NeXT Tutorial (Craig and Brent)
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-3:30):
  • Auditory Demonstrations (Dan)
  • Them Skulls
  • The Basilar Mime
• Tour of the Archive of Recorded Sound (3:30-5:00)

Wednesday, June 28

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Physiological:
    • Haptic sensors (Brent)
  • Psychological:
    • Somatosensory, Hierarchical Control (Brent)
    • Anticipatory Control, Motor Learning (Brent)
    • Gesture Recognition with the CyberGlove by Sid Fels
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
  • Armchair Psychophysics
  • Human Telerobot
  • Echo Experiment
  • Source Localization Experiment
  • Radar ears
• Wednesday evening: Cocktail Party effect (Group experiment)

Thursday, June 29

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Dimensional: aspects of Psychoacoustics
    • Wave physics (Brent)
    • Bark scale, dB scale, contours of equal loudness (Craig)
    • Comparative perception in the visual, aural, and haptic domains (Sile)
• Special Session (1:00-2:00)
  • Early Computer Music in Argentina by Fernando von Reichenbach
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-3:30):
  • Spectrum Analysis
    • Mini-lecture: The missing fundamental (Craig)
    • Fun with a spectrum analyser
    • Graphing personal Fletcher-Munsen equal-loudness curves
  • Introduction to Facilities (in rotating groups) (3:30-5:00)
    • BioMuse (Bill Putnam)
    • Touchback Keyboard (Brent)
    • MIDI Studio / NeXT sound demo (Craig)
    • Radio Drum (Fernando)

Friday, June 30

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Perceptual:
    • Haptic Interface Design (Brent)
    • Motor control: The virtual wall (Brent)
    • Pitch perception (Sile) (JRP?)
    • Distance perception (Craig)
    • Flanging and reverberation (Sile)
    • Masking (Craig)
    • The Doppler effect (Brent)
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
  • Mini-lecture on projects (participants present project proposals)
  • McGurk effect (Craig)
  • Navigation by ear, echo location (Sile)

Saturday, July 1

• Special Guests: Karon MacLean (MIT) and Paul Millman (Northwestern) available intermittently for consultation on haptics projects!
• Instructors available for consulting on projects

Week 2:

In the second week, half of each laboratory session is devoted to assisted work on individual projects.

Monday, July 3

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Voice lectures by Perry Cook (CCRMA)
  • Audio Quality Measures by Bill Putnam (CCRMA)
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
  • Voice acoustics: getting in touch with your hidden articulators. (Perry)
  • Simultaneity Study (Brent)
  • Mini-lecture: The head-related transfer function (HRTF) (Brent)

Tuesday, July 4

• Field trip to the Musee Mechanique (Cliff House) and the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Watch the fireworks at Crissy Fields (back at 11:00 pm). Picnic may be scheduled.

Wednesday, July 5

• Morning Lecture (10:00-1:00):
  • Sense of Time in Music George Barth
  • 3D Audio by Beth Wenzel (NASA)
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
  • Periodicity and pitch perception.
  • Impulse Engine Demonstrations by Louis Rosenberg (Immersion Corp.)

Thursday, July 6

• Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
  • Binaural Demonstrations by Dick Duda (SJ State University)
  • Computational source segregation/Speech synthesis and recognition by Malcolm Slaney (Interval Research)
• Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
  • Field Trip to DesignSpace, Stanford CDR (Tim Lacey)
  • Precedence Effect
  • Participant project presentations

Friday, July 7

• Interaction Design by Bill Verplank
• Closing Comments (Brent)
• Participant project presentations
• diploma/doughnut distribution.

Saturday, July 8

• Nothing -- classes ended Friday!
• However, instructors will be available to assist porting projects to home platforms.

Pictures of Moose, and the celletto/javelin: