ECE511/PSY511 Schedule

ECE511/PSY511 Psychophysics
Fall 2018 Schedule

Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:00-4:50 pm in MSEE184)
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Dates Tuesday Thursday Assignment

Week 1
8/21 & 23 Lecture Notes:
Psychophysics in a Nutshell
Fechnerian Psychophysics
Reading:
Gescheider (Chap. 1) (p.1-35) Lecture Notes:
Method of Constant Stimuli
Reading:
Gescheider (Chap. 2) (p.37-46) HW #1
Method of Constant Stimuli and Probit Analysis
assigned: 8/23
due: 8/30

Week 2
8/28 & 8/30 Lecture Notes:
Method of Limits
Method of Adjustment
Reading:
Gescheider (Chap. 2) (p.46-59) Lecture Notes:
Signal Detection Theory (1)
Signal Detection Theory (2)
Reading:
M&C (Chap. 1 & 2) HW #2
Method of Limits and Method of Adjustment
assigned: 8/30
due: 9/6

Week 3
9/4 & 6 Lecture Notes:
Signal Detection Theory (3)
Signal Detection Theory (4)
Reading:
M&C (Chap. 7)
Lecture Notes:
Rating Experiment
Signal Detection Theory (5)
Reading:
(1) M&C (Chap. 3)
(2) Pang et al.'s article
HW #3
A Decision Model for Psychophysics
assigned: 9/6
due: 9/13

Week 4
9/11 & 13 Lecture Notes:
Adaptive Methods (1)
Adaptive Methods (2)
Reading:
(1) M&C (Chap. 11)
(2) Levitt's article
(3) Barbagli et al.'s paper Brainstorm Project Ideas;
Prepare for Presentations HW #4
ROC, 1-I and 2-I Paradigms
assigned: 9/13
due: 9/20

Week 5
9/18 & 20 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:
3:00-3:15 pm: Human Research Protection Program (Victoria)
3:15-3:30 pm: Discussion (All)
3:30-3:45 pm: "Manual discrimination of force ..." by Pang et al. (Yujie)
3:45-4:00 pm: Discussion (All)
4:00-4:15 pm: "Transformed Up-Down Methods ..." by H. Levitt (Denys)
4:15-4:30 pm: Discussion (All)
4:30-4:45 pm: "Haptic Discrimination of Force Direction ..." by Barbagli et al. (Nade)
4:45-5:00 pm: Discussion (All) Lecture Notes:
Information Theory (1)
Information Theory (2)
Reading:
(1) M&C (Chaps. 5 & 10)
(2) Miller's article HW #5
Signal Detection Theory, Rating Experiments
assigned: 9/20
due: 9/27

Week 6
9/25 & 27 Lecture Notes:
Information Theory (3)
Information Theory (4)
Lecture Notes:
Multidimensional Scaling
Speed-accuracy Tradeoff
Reading:
(1) Hollins et al.'s article
(2) Jennings et al.'s article
HW #6
Information Theory
assigned: 9/27
due: 10/4

Week 7
10/2 & 4 Brainstorm Project Ideas;
Form Project Teams STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:
3:00-3:15 pm: "The Magical Number Seven, ..." by Miller (Part II) (He)
3:15-3:30 pm: Discussion (All)
3:30-3:45 pm: "Perceptual dimensions of ... texture ..." by Hollins et al. (Gaojian)
3:45-4:00 pm: Discussion (All)
Finalize Project Teams (no assignment)

Week 8
10/9 & 11 October Break
(NO CLASS) Lecture:
Overview of Haptic Perception
and Haptic Technologies

Reading:
Jones & Tan psychophysics review article

Project Teams:
Sean, Vikas, Makaela
Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach
Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui
Victoria, Patricia, Denys
Yujie, Conner, He
Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor
Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob
Paul, Prof. Tan

Week 9
10/16 & 18 Experiment Design Discussions
(Stimulus, Response, Paradigm, Data to be collected, Expected results);
Preparation for Midterm Exam MIDTERM EXAM
HW #7
Project Proposal
assigned: 10/18
due: 11/1

Week 10
10/23 & 25 Experiment Design Discussions
3:00-3:20 pm: Sean, Vikas, Makaela
3:20-3:40 pm: Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach
3:40-4:00 pm: Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui
4:00-4:20 pm: Victoria, Patricia, Denys
4:20-4:40 pm: Yujie, Conner, He

Reading:
A published course project by Chen et al.
Experiment Design Discussions
3:00-3:20 pm: Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor
3:20-3:40 pm: Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob
3:40-4:00 pm: Paul, Prof. Tan

Week 11
10/30 & 11/1 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:
3:00-3:15 pm: "Effects of ... alcohol ..." by Jennings et al. (Zach)
3:15-3:30 pm: Discussion (All)
3:30-3:45 pm: "Tactor Localization ..." by Chen et al. (Anvesh)
3:45-4:00 pm: Discussion (All)
4:00-4:15 pm: "The Magic Number Seven, ..." by Miller (Part I) (Chengzhang)
4:15-4:30 pm: Discussion (All)
Get Ready for Proposal Presentation on Thursday
Project Proposal Presentations
3:00-3:15 pm: Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob (group delay detection);
3:15-3:30 pm: Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach (grip force and weight perception);
3:30-3:45 pm: Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui;
3:45-4:00 pm: Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor;
4:00-4:15 pm: Paul, Prof. Tan (RT to audiohaptic cues);
4:15-4:30 pm: Sean, Vikas, Makaela (distance perception on the skin);
4:30-4:45 pm: Victoria, Patricia, Denys (invisible shapes);
4:45-5:00 pm: Yujie, Conner, He (inter-car distance);
HW #8
Project Preliminary Report assigned: 11/1
due: 11/15

Week 12
11/6 & 8 Guest Lecture:
Perception-Based Engineering: Integrating Sound Perception into Engineering Design
Prof. Patricia Davies (ME),
Director of Ray W. Herrick Labs Group Project Time

Week 13
11/13 & 15 Group Project Time
Group Project Time
HW #9
Oral Project Presentation assigned: 11/15
due: 11/29

Week 14
11/20 & 22 Group Project Time
Thanksgiving Vacation
(NO CLASS)

Week 15
11/27 & 29 Guest Lecture by Faculty and Students
Beijing Normal University User Experience (BNUX) Master's Program
3:00-3:10 pm: How BNUX Collaborates with Companies (Dr. Wei Liu)
3:10-3:50 pm: Case 1 - Connecting Vehicles with PSA Groupe (Di Zhu)
3:50-4:00 pm: Case 2 - 6 Background Introductions (Di Zhu)
4:00-4:50 pm: Five Short Presentations
Museum Service Design for Couples (Jinge Huang)
Staircase Guide Design (Zhenyu Zhang & Huanyu Zhang)
Learning Experience of 6-year-old Boy in Museum (Yunuo Li)
Botanical and Human Museums Service Design (Ning Sun)
Self-Guide in Museums (Jiatai Li)
Project Presentations
3:00-3:15 pm: "Drivers' Perception of Headways ..."
Yujie, Conner, He
3:15-3:30 pm: "Persistence of Contour-Flicker Illusions"
Victoria, Patricia, Denys
3:30-3:45 pm: "Prosthetic Haptic Interfaces"
Sean, Vikas, Makaela
3:45-4:00 pm: "Reaction Time to Audio vs. Audio-Haptic Stimuli"
Paul, Prof. Tan
4:00-4:15 pm: "The Effect of Lowered Mental Workload ..."
Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor
4:15-4:30 pm: "The Effect of Multimodal Cue Combination ..."
Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui
4:30-4:45 pm: "Motor Behavior and Perception Interaction"
Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach
4:45-5:00 pm: "Audibility Threshold of Group Delay"
Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob
HW #10
Project Final Report assigned: 11/29
due: 12/6

Week 16
12/4 & 6 Project Final Reports Due

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Assignment
Week 1 8/21 & 23	Lecture Notes: Psychophysics in a Nutshell Fechnerian Psychophysics Reading: Gescheider (Chap. 1) (p.1-35)	Lecture Notes: Method of Constant Stimuli Reading: Gescheider (Chap. 2) (p.37-46)	HW #1 Method of Constant Stimuli and Probit Analysis assigned: 8/23 due: 8/30
Week 2 8/28 & 8/30	Lecture Notes: Method of Limits Method of Adjustment Reading: Gescheider (Chap. 2) (p.46-59)	Lecture Notes: Signal Detection Theory (1) Signal Detection Theory (2) Reading: M&C (Chap. 1 & 2)	HW #2 Method of Limits and Method of Adjustment assigned: 8/30 due: 9/6
Week 3 9/4 & 6	Lecture Notes: Signal Detection Theory (3) Signal Detection Theory (4) Reading: M&C (Chap. 7)	Lecture Notes: Rating Experiment Signal Detection Theory (5) Reading: (1) M&C (Chap. 3) (2) Pang et al.'s article	HW #3 A Decision Model for Psychophysics assigned: 9/6 due: 9/13
Week 4 9/11 & 13	Lecture Notes: Adaptive Methods (1) Adaptive Methods (2) Reading: (1) M&C (Chap. 11) (2) Levitt's article (3) Barbagli et al.'s paper	Brainstorm Project Ideas; Prepare for Presentations	HW #4 ROC, 1-I and 2-I Paradigms assigned: 9/13 due: 9/20
Week 5 9/18 & 20	STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: 3:00-3:15 pm: Human Research Protection Program (Victoria) 3:15-3:30 pm: Discussion (All) 3:30-3:45 pm: "Manual discrimination of force ..." by Pang et al. (Yujie) 3:45-4:00 pm: Discussion (All) 4:00-4:15 pm: "Transformed Up-Down Methods ..." by H. Levitt (Denys) 4:15-4:30 pm: Discussion (All) 4:30-4:45 pm: "Haptic Discrimination of Force Direction ..." by Barbagli et al. (Nade) 4:45-5:00 pm: Discussion (All)	Lecture Notes: Information Theory (1) Information Theory (2) Reading: (1) M&C (Chaps. 5 & 10) (2) Miller's article	HW #5 Signal Detection Theory, Rating Experiments assigned: 9/20 due: 9/27
Week 6 9/25 & 27	Lecture Notes: Information Theory (3) Information Theory (4)	Lecture Notes: Multidimensional Scaling Speed-accuracy Tradeoff Reading: (1) Hollins et al.'s article (2) Jennings et al.'s article	HW #6 Information Theory assigned: 9/27 due: 10/4
Week 7 10/2 & 4	Brainstorm Project Ideas; Form Project Teams	STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: 3:00-3:15 pm: "The Magical Number Seven, ..." by Miller (Part II) (He) 3:15-3:30 pm: Discussion (All) 3:30-3:45 pm: "Perceptual dimensions of ... texture ..." by Hollins et al. (Gaojian) 3:45-4:00 pm: Discussion (All) Finalize Project Teams	(no assignment)
Week 8 10/9 & 11	October Break (NO CLASS)	Lecture: Overview of Haptic Perception and Haptic Technologies Reading: Jones & Tan psychophysics review article	Project Teams: Sean, Vikas, Makaela Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui Victoria, Patricia, Denys Yujie, Conner, He Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob Paul, Prof. Tan
Week 9 10/16 & 18	Experiment Design Discussions (Stimulus, Response, Paradigm, Data to be collected, Expected results); Preparation for Midterm Exam	MIDTERM EXAM	HW #7 Project Proposal assigned: 10/18 due: 11/1
Week 10 10/23 & 25	Experiment Design Discussions 3:00-3:20 pm: Sean, Vikas, Makaela 3:20-3:40 pm: Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach 3:40-4:00 pm: Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui 4:00-4:20 pm: Victoria, Patricia, Denys 4:20-4:40 pm: Yujie, Conner, He Reading: A published course project by Chen et al.	Experiment Design Discussions 3:00-3:20 pm: Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor 3:20-3:40 pm: Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob 3:40-4:00 pm: Paul, Prof. Tan
Week 11 10/30 & 11/1	STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: 3:00-3:15 pm: "Effects of ... alcohol ..." by Jennings et al. (Zach) 3:15-3:30 pm: Discussion (All) 3:30-3:45 pm: "Tactor Localization ..." by Chen et al. (Anvesh) 3:45-4:00 pm: Discussion (All) 4:00-4:15 pm: "The Magic Number Seven, ..." by Miller (Part I) (Chengzhang) 4:15-4:30 pm: Discussion (All) Get Ready for Proposal Presentation on Thursday	Project Proposal Presentations 3:00-3:15 pm: Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob (group delay detection); 3:15-3:30 pm: Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach (grip force and weight perception); 3:30-3:45 pm: Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui; 3:45-4:00 pm: Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor; 4:00-4:15 pm: Paul, Prof. Tan (RT to audiohaptic cues); 4:15-4:30 pm: Sean, Vikas, Makaela (distance perception on the skin); 4:30-4:45 pm: Victoria, Patricia, Denys (invisible shapes); 4:45-5:00 pm: Yujie, Conner, He (inter-car distance);	HW #8 Project Preliminary Report assigned: 11/1 due: 11/15
Week 12 11/6 & 8	Guest Lecture: Perception-Based Engineering: Integrating Sound Perception into Engineering Design Prof. Patricia Davies (ME), Director of Ray W. Herrick Labs	Group Project Time
Week 13 11/13 & 15	Group Project Time	Group Project Time	HW #9 Oral Project Presentation assigned: 11/15 due: 11/29
Week 14 11/20 & 22	Group Project Time	Thanksgiving Vacation (NO CLASS)
Week 15 11/27 & 29	Guest Lecture by Faculty and Students Beijing Normal University User Experience (BNUX) Master's Program 3:00-3:10 pm: How BNUX Collaborates with Companies (Dr. Wei Liu) 3:10-3:50 pm: Case 1 - Connecting Vehicles with PSA Groupe (Di Zhu) 3:50-4:00 pm: Case 2 - 6 Background Introductions (Di Zhu) 4:00-4:50 pm: Five Short Presentations Museum Service Design for Couples (Jinge Huang) Staircase Guide Design (Zhenyu Zhang & Huanyu Zhang) Learning Experience of 6-year-old Boy in Museum (Yunuo Li) Botanical and Human Museums Service Design (Ning Sun) Self-Guide in Museums (Jiatai Li)	Project Presentations 3:00-3:15 pm: "Drivers' Perception of Headways ..." Yujie, Conner, He 3:15-3:30 pm: "Persistence of Contour-Flicker Illusions" Victoria, Patricia, Denys 3:30-3:45 pm: "Prosthetic Haptic Interfaces" Sean, Vikas, Makaela 3:45-4:00 pm: "Reaction Time to Audio vs. Audio-Haptic Stimuli" Paul, Prof. Tan 4:00-4:15 pm: "The Effect of Lowered Mental Workload ..." Nade, Chengzhang, Trevor 4:15-4:30 pm: "The Effect of Multimodal Cue Combination ..." Gaojian, Clayton, Xinrui 4:30-4:45 pm: "Motor Behavior and Perception Interaction" Anvesh, Gabriel, Zach 4:45-5:00 pm: "Audibility Threshold of Group Delay" Alyssa, Sarah, Jacob	HW #10 Project Final Report assigned: 11/29 due: 12/6
Week 16 12/4 & 6		Project Final Reports Due