2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Information and Communications Engineering Graduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
Virtual Reality and Interaction
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Shoichi Hasegawa
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Tue / 3-4 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ICT.H507
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Virtual reality systems generate experiences of virtual worlds in computers by presenting multimodal sensory information to the users and inputting motions of the users to the virtual worlds. The concept of virtual reality, making experience by giving sensory information corresponding user's motion is an important concept for interaction design concerning users' experiences.
The principles and techniques to make virtual reality systems are also important to create interactive systems.
Thus, this course aims that students understand the idea of virtual reality and know the methods for implementations.
Course description and aims
Be able to explain principles and concepts of virtual reality, human sensory motor system, overview of sensors, actuators, simulation and rendering techniques.
Be able to propose abstract of new virtual reality system.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Based on experiences on operation of IVRC (Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge) and making and teaching experiences on VR work, teaching designing of original VR system.
Keywords
Virtual Reality, Interaction, Human Interfaces, Simulation
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The class consists of 12 lectures and two poster presentations.
Participants give poster presentations in the 4th and 14th classes proposing new virtual reality systems.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | What is virtual reality | Understand concept, principle, effect and limitation of virtual reality |
| Class 2 | How to make a good VR system / How to use value graphs | Understand what to consider when designing a VR system. Understand how to expand and confirm ideas using value graphs. |
| Class 3 | Metaverse and character motion | Understand overviews of metaverses and character motion. |
| Class 4 | Poster presentation 1 (will be held face-to-face (or online, depending on the situation)) | Gain a deep understanding of what needs to be considered when designing a VR system. |
| Class 5 | Overview of physical engine and simulation of mass points and rigid bodies | Understand the basics of physics engines |
| Class 6 | Mathematical expression of three-dimensional space and rotation, and simulation of deformation and fluids | Understand advanced topics of simulation for virtual reality |
| Class 7 | Human vision | Understand human vision basics |
| Class 8 | Visual display | Understand basic visual displays. |
| Class 9 | Computer graphics | Understand basic computer graphics. |
| Class 10 | Human auditory sense, characteristics of sound, sound generation, sound localization, and sound presentation | Understand human auditory sense and related sonic physics. |
| Class 11 | Haptics and somatosensory system | Understand the basics of human haptics and somatosensory system |
| Class 12 | Haptic interface | Understand the principles and creation of haptic interfaces |
| Class 13 | Vestibular system and its comparison with auditory sense and haptics | Understand vestibular system and similarity and difference with auditory sense and haptics |
| Class 14 | Poster presentaiton | Presentation and exchange of ideas on the new virtual reality system designed in the previous class. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterward for each class.
They should do so by referring to the course material and references on it. After the second class, it should include the preparation of the proposal for a new VR system. For the preparation, we encourage you to consult with faculty members and other students during the class. Also, we recommend discussing with other students and seeking criticism after the lecture. Students are expected to spend about 100 minutes each for preparation and review, including preparation for the proposal.
Textbook(s)
no text book is used
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Use slides, Please download slides from the class web page.
Virtual Reality Technology 2003/6, Grigore C. Burdea
Evaluation methods and criteria
The contents of the new virtual reality system presented in the poster presentation and the poster.
Related courses
- ICT.A406 ： Human-Centric Information Systems I
- ICT.A418 ： Human-Centric Information Systems II
- ICT.C309 ： Multimedia Distribution Technology
- ICT.H411 ： Basic Sensation Informatics
- ICT.H313 ： Sensation and Perception Systems
- CSC.T421 ： Human Computer Interaction
- ART.T463 ： Computer Graphics
- ICT.I317 ： Embedded Systems
- ZUQ.T303 ： Simulation Engineering
Prerequisites
Basic knowledges on computational machinery, numerical computation. Experience of virtual reality.
Other
Poster presentations will be held in the classroom. If the poster presentation is held online, posters and discussions will be conducted using proximity chat.