Welcome to CDE5312 and start your journey to interactive wearables!
This course aims to explore the limitless potential of interactive wearables — from virtual and augmented reality to smart textiles and artificial intelligence-based health-monitoring devices and immersive gaming gear. In this course, students will learn about designing wearable interfaces for seamless interaction among wearables, users, and environments; experimenting with sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, and artificial intelligence-driven applications; and leveraging hardware and software for wearable system prototyping. After completing this course, students should be able to apply interactive wearable technologies to tackle real-world projects, turning ideas into tangible solutions for various applications such as virtual and augmented reality, gaming, fashion, communication, and beyond.
Prerequisite Advisory: Students who wish to read this course should have basic knowledge and skills in coding and electronics.
Coding: Students who wish to read this course should be comfortable with basic coding concepts such as functions, loops, variables, and conditionals. While this course uses C/C++ for microcontroller programming, prior experience with C/C++ is not essential. Students who are more familiar with typed and compiled languages such as Java or C# or dynamically-typed languages such as JavaScript or Python should be able to adapt quickly.
Electronics: A basic understanding of electronics, i.e. familiarity with concepts such as voltage, current, resistance, and circuits, is required for this course because students are required to work on hardware prototypes. Students can attend additional workshops or refer to online materials to gain sufficient knowledge about electronics to handle the tasks in this course.
Note: This module is designed for graduate students in College of Design and Engineering but limited spaces are available for Year 4 undergraduate students. This module is offered as a technical elective under the Technology basket for MSc Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) students and as an Innovation & Enterprise elective for Innovation & Design Program (iDP) students. Please drop an email to Dr Cai (shaoyucai@nus.edu.sg) if you want to take.
Quarter Offered: Both January and August.