Robust, qualitative, psychophysical assessment on the relationship between the physical environment and the user’s subjective experience is one of the core skills to optimize the machine usability, design, interface, etc. This course focuses on the latest brain science topics related to it and show some of the methods and limitations to assess the human internal process.
To understand the human subjective experiences and their scientific measurement methods, not for the basic brain science purpose but also for the applied purpose such as user experience assessment for the artificial system.
Brain science, perception and psychophysics, vision, haptic, multimodal perception process, embodiment
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Each week, students experience a couple of human perception demonstrations and discuss on it in English. The classes are sometimes held in some of the research facilities such as motion capture room, fMRI brain scanning room etc..
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Human sensory systems and internal model, How human vision is different from the camera | Understanding the difference between human vision and camera. |
Class 2 | Eye movement, visual attention, and usability test, brain conscious process capacity | To understand the human eye movement and visual attention. |
Class 3 | Basic brain structure and functions, brain data visualization | To understand the visualization of the brain structure and function using fMRI. |
Class 4 | Color perception, 3D perception, and their applications | To understand the human visual perception and their applications including computer vision. |
Class 5 | Biological motion, Motion perception, motion capture techniques, and robot design | To understand how rich the human body movement information is by biological motion. |
Class 6 | Active and passive touch, crossmodal perception and haptic virtual reality | To understand the design of the multimodal displays, |
Class 7 | Psychophysical methods | To understand the varieties of psychophysics method, |
Class 8 | Human self-body perception, social brain and theory of mind as a ghost in the machine, brain and body hack by the machine | To understand how our sense of "me" can be evoked in our physical brain and body organs. |
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Grading is based on 60% from the exams, 30% from the two papers, and 10% on discussion section participation.
Basic knowledge on the cognitive science, human perception, and statistics essential.
It's preferable to take "Laboratory Training on Human Brain Functions and Their Measurements" as well.