| Class | Date | Topic and Activity | Reading (Before Class) | Assignment (Due in Class) | Additional Resources | ||
| 1 | Aug. 17 |
Intro to HCI:
What is HCI? What will you learn and do in this
course?
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The HCI Bibliography ACM SIGCHI Curricula for HCI |
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| 2 | Aug. 18 | First Principles of HCI
Activity: Critique of example UIs -- strengths, weaknesses ... |
First Principles of Human-Computer Interaction. | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 3 | Aug. 19 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 4 | Aug. 24 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 5 | Aug. 25 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 6 | Aug. 26 | iPhone "Under the Hood" Seminar Guest Speaker: Steve Hayman, Apple Corp. |
Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 7 | Aug. 31 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 8 | Sept. 1 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 9 | Sept. 2 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 10 | Sept. 7 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 11 | Sept. 8 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 12 | Sept. 9 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 13 | Sept. 14 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 14 | Sept. 15 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 15 | Sept. 16 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 16 | Sept. 21 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 17 | Sept. 22 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 18 | Sept. 23 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 19 | Sept. 28 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 20 | Sept. 29 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 21 | Sept. 30 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 22 | Oct. 5 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 23 | Oct. 6 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 24 | Oct. 7 | Topic Activity Midpoint of semester |
Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 25 | Oct. 12 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 26 | Oct. 13 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 27 | Oct. 14 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 28 | Oct. 19 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 29 | Oct. 20 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 30 | Oct. 21 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| Oct. 22 | Withdrawal deadline | ||||||
| 31 | Oct. 26 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 32 | Oct. 27 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 33 | Oct. 28 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 34 | Oct. 29 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 35 | Nov. 3 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 36 | Nov. 4 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 37 | Nov. 5 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 38 | Nov. 10 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 39 | Nov. 11 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 40 | Nov. 12 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 41 | Nov. 17 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 42 | Nov. 18 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 43 | Nov. 19 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||||
| Nov. 25 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||||
| Nov. 26 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||||
| 44 | Dec. 1 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 45 | Dec. 2 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 46 | Dec. 3 | Topic Activity Last day of class |
Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 1 | Dec. 15 | Final Exam, 12-3 pm |
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| Aug. 17 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | |||
| 1 | Aug. 17 | Topic Activity | Material_to_read | Due_in_class | More_good_stuff | ||
| 1 | Tues, Jan 9 | Java: A Brief Review JHTP: Ch. 1 JHTP: Ch. 2 JHTP: Ch. 3 JHTP: Ch. 4 JHTP: Ch. 5 |
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| 2 | Wed, Jan 10 | Java, continued JHTP: Ch. 6 JHTP: Ch. 7 JHTP: Ch. 8 JHTP: Ch. 9 JHTP: Ch. 10 JHTP: Ch. 11 JHTP: Ch. 12 JHTP: Ch. 13 |
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| 3 | Thurs, Jan 11 | Java GUI elements, continued | |||||
| 4 | Tues, Jan 16 | User interface elements, continued JHTP: Ch. 14 How to Get Started ... |
Project 0 | ||||
| 5 | Wed, Jan 17 | Jave GUI elements, continued | |||||
| 6 | Thurs, Jan 18 | No class | |||||
| 7 | Tues, Jan 23 | JHTP, Ch. 14, continued |
Browse:
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| 8 | Wed, Jan 24 | First Principles of Human-Computer Interaction. (PPT presentation) | The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information |
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| 9 | Thurs, Jan 25 | A Look at Bad Designs | |||||
| 10 | Tues, Jan 30 | Human perception, attention, and memory | Pashler, The Psychology of Attention : Intro (Available as an e-book through Galileo) Reading re: Project 1 |
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| 11 | Wed, Jan 31 |
Icon Design exercise Making Text Legible for People with Partial Sight Effective Color Contrast |
Making Text Legible for People with Partial Sight and Effective Color Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies |
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| 12 | Thurs, Feb 1 | Snow Day | |||||
| 13 | Tues, Feb 6 |
Overview User-Centered Design Requirements Analysis |
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| 14 | Wed, Feb 7 |
Prototyping 1 Prototyping 2 |
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| 15 | Thurs, Feb 8 | Prototyping, continued | |||||
| 16 | Tues, Feb 13 | Quiz #1 on readings through 2/9 | Project 1 | ||||
| 17 | Wed, Feb 14 | Task Analysis | Project 2 | ||||
| 18 | Thurs, Feb 15 | Work Session: Prototyping/Scenarios | |||||
| 19 | Tues, Feb 20 | GIL, Part I | |||||
| 20 | Wed, Feb 21 | GIL, Part II | |||||
| 21 | Thurs, Feb 22 | Evaluation | |||||
| 22 | Tues, Feb 27 | Evaluation , continued | |||||
| 23 | Wed, Feb 28 | Working with Human Subjects | |||||
| 24 | Thurs, Mar 1 | No class | |||||
| 25 | Tues, Mar 6 | Mid-term Exam | |||||
| 26 | Wed, Mar 7 | Working with Human Subjects , continued | Project 2B, 2C | ||||
| 27 | Thurs, Mar 8 | Evaluation , continued (Note: midpoint withdrawal deadline) |
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| Tues, Mar 13 | No class - Spring Break | ||||||
| Wed, Mar 14 | No class - Spring Break | ||||||
| Thurs, Mar 15 | No class - Spring Break | ||||||
| 28 | Tues, Mar 20 | Evaluation , completed | Project 3 | ||||
| 29 | Wed, Mar 21 | Empirical Studies -- Part I | |||||
| 30 | Thurs, Mar 22 | Evaluation: Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis - pt I Evaluation: Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis - pt II ANOVA -- handout and exercise |
William J. Trochim's Research Methods Knowledge Base | ||||
| 31 | Tues, Mar 27 | Exam return | Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines | ||||
| 32 | Wed, Mar 28 | ||||||
| 33 | Thurs, Mar 29 | Web Site Evaluation Requirements Analysis Data flow diagrams, E-R diagrams |
Read Chapter 8 in Carroll "A Reference Task Agenda for HCI" |
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| 34 | Tues, Apr 3 | Prototyping |
P1B, P1C Project4 |
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| 35 | Wed, Apr 4 | Inferential Statistics: paired t-test Project Group Meetings |
Inferential Statistics notes
t-chart |
T-test assignments | |||
| 36 | Thurs, Apr 5 | Paintbox -- User testing | |||||
| 37 | Tues, Apr 10 | Group work on projects | |||||
| 38 | Wed, Apr 11 | Phone conference with client | |||||
| 39 | Thurs, Apr 12 | Quiz on Inferential Statistics | |||||
| 40 | Tues, Apr 17 |
Group project status reports Java Look-and-Feel, Part I Java Look-and-Feel, Part II |
For GIL groups: RT-GIL paper: additional examples PPT presentation with box notation |
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| 41 | Wed, Apr 18 | Group project status reports Java Look-and-Feel, Part III |
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| 42 | Thur, Apr 19 | Group project status reports Java Look-and-Feel, Part IV Java Look-and-Feel, Part V |
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| 43 | Tues, Apr 24 | Empirical Study Results: Shradha Kaldate and Manish Agarwal | |||||
| 44 | Wed, Apr 25 |
How it Works: A Field Study of Non-Technical Users Interacting with an Intelligent System , presented by Devanga Kar Group Project Status Reports Course feedback |
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| 45 | Thur, Apr 26 | Take-Home Final Distribution | Group Project Evaluation Form | ||||
| Thurs, May 3 | 9-11 am : Final Project Presentations | ||||||
| Thurs, May 10 | Final Project Due, Take-Home Final Due |