CS 6724: User Interfaces for Built Environments 
Spring 2016 
Denis Gracanin

New sensor, mobile, and control technologies have great promise in
connecting users to their environment. Smart built environments (e.g.,
a smart house) enhanced with technology (e.g., Internet of Things) can
support better living to improve the lives of individuals, groups, and
the broader community, including increased awareness of information in
the user’s surroundings, integrated control over factors in one’s
surrounding and home environments, and increased ability to support
sustainable living for both individuals and groups. In this class we
will explore how to design and implement intuitive user interfaces and
interaction techniques that take full advantage of available technologies
and provide timely information to the users. The focus will be on mixed
reality and non-traditional, spatial user interactions. We will use
FutureHAUS (http://www.vtfuturehaus.org) as a case study.