Supplies students should provide:

1. Students are expected to maintain current backups of their files. Students can use CD-R or DVD-R media, or USB flash memory drives.

2. Students may need a digital camera for field assignments. SmartMedia and CompactFlash are the supported formats. And students may also need a camcorder for field work. MiniDV, VHS, and SVHS tapes are supported.

3. A pad of grid paper may be useful for sketching, taking notes, etc.

4. Students should also upgrade their home PC's with multimedia plug-ins for their web browser. They may also want to download trial versions of the development and production software (Director 11, Photoshop, etc.):

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
(download Acrobat Reader, the Flash player and the Shockwave player)

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
(download QuickTime player, QuickTime Pro recommended)

Stony Brook Multimedia Links:

Many of the SINC site labs maintained by Instructional Computing run the same software as the CS Multimedia lab:
http://moya.ic.sunysb.edu/Sinc/

Emedia Arts:
http://emedia.art.sunysb.edu/emedia/

Director on-line user manual and scripting references:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Director/11.0/director_11_help.pdf

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Director/11.0/help.html?content=Part02_Scripting_Dictionary_1.html

Advanced Lingo for Games, a free online textbook by Gary Rosenzweig (sample files in group folder):
http://garyrosenzweig.com/advancedlingoforgames/toc.html

Shockwave 3D tutorials from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/director/3d_animation.html

Apple's Developer site for AppleScript:

http://developer.apple.com/applescript/

Director exchange (extensions to Director 11):

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=7&loc=en_us

I-CubeX support (sensor inputs):

http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/info_pages.php/pages_id/4

Links to Director Extensions (Xtras) we have in the lab:

Arca Database and Audio Xtra:
http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/

Amplitude Xtra:
http://www.marmalademedia.com.au/amplitude/index.html

XMIDI Xtra:
http://www.troikatronix.com/xmidi.html

Zscript (Send and receive Apple Events):
http://www.zeusprod.com/products/zscript.html

Serial Xtra (Read data from serial ports):
http://www.physicalbits.com/Xtras/Detailed/SerialXtra/Intro.php

TrackThemColors (Computer Vision):
http://www.smoothware.com/track.html

WebCam Xtra "Myron" (Edge Detection):
http://webcamxtra.sourceforge.net/

Applications training:

323 course work requires the use of many software applications. Independently acquiring skill in the use of these tools is the student's responsibility. The following resources are available in the CS department:

The training CD titles available in the lab for 323 students are:

AppleScript, and AppleScript Studio
Director MX
MX 2004 Lingo

Additionally, there are free-of-charge internet training resources:

Director:
http://www.adobe.com/support/director/tutorial_index.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/director/lingo.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/director/

http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/FAQ/

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/technical/director/wilson.director.tutorial.html

http://www.director-online.com/
http://director-online.com/dougwiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/index.html

Adobe Design Center:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/

iLife (iPhoto, iWeb, GarageBand, and iMovie):
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/

QuickTime:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/

To further supplement their training students may choose to consider:

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/index.asp
Lynda.com is a provider of multimedia applications traning CD's.
For $25 users can view all of the training archives on-line for one month.

http://www.vtc.com/
Video Training Courses (VTC) offers lower-cost training CD's.

The following links are provided to facilitate independent research by students:

ACM SIGCHI: Interactions journal on-line
http://www.acm.org/interactions/

Links to exemplary interaction design studios:

http://www.clevermedia.com/

http://maidmarian.com/
http://maidmarian.com/SherwoodLanding.htm

Recommended supplemental reading:

Programming as if People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions
Nathaniel S. Borenstein
ISBN 0691037639
September 1994
Princeton University Press

Through a set of lively anecdotes and essays, Nathaniel Borenstein traces the divergence between the fields of software engineering and user-centered software design, and attempts to reconcile the needs of people in both camps.

 

The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
Brenda Laurel
ISBN 0201517973
May 1990
Addison-Wesley

The first section of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, "Creativity and Design," offers insight into general interface issues. The "Users and Contexts" section details the experiences of a variety of users and designers, providing invaluable input for interface designers. The "Sermons" sections is a collection of thought-provoking pieces by some of the people whose work and points of view have deeply influenced human-computer interaction--Donald Norman, Nicholas Negroponte, Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, Jean-Louis Gassee, Timothy Leary, and Ben Shneiderman. The fourth section, "New Directions," looks at some of the ideas and theories that are on the frontiers of human-computer interface design.