Lecture Calendar, Slides, & Due Dates

Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:50

Date

Topics

PPT

PDF

Reading Due

Assignment Due

Thur
9/27

Introduction to the Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation of Human-Computer Interfaces

PowerPoint 5.55 MB


1.35 MB

None

Tue
10/2

History of HCI

Class Introductions

PowerPoint 4.7 MB

 

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

Tools For Thought Ch 9 (Engelbart Demo)

#1 Project Proposal (Individual)

Thur
10/4

Design Discovery

Choose Project Groups

PowerPoint 4.4 MB

 

Chapter 3 of The Design of Sites

Chapter 3 of Contextual Design

 

Tue
10/9

Context-based ESM: Guest lecture and Q&A by Jon Froehlich

Phone handout & MyExperience Overview

PowerPoint 8.6 MB

 

Hektner, J. M., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2002). The experience sampling method: Measuring the context and content of lives

Lewis & Reiman Chapter 2

#2 Hall of Fame and Shame (Individual)

Thur
10/11

Human Abilities

Working as a Team

PowerPoint 871 KB  

Ch. 2: The Human Information Processor, from The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction By Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell, 1983, pp. 23-83

The Discipline of Teams

 
Tue
10/16

Video Prototyping

PowerPoint 2.7 MB  

Beaudouin-Lafon & MacKay, pp. 1-22

Tips for Working Successfully in a Group by Randy Pausch

Video Prototyping Examples

 
Thur
10/18

Presentations #1

    #3 Contextual Inquiry, ESM & Task Analysis (Group)
Tue
10/23

Conceptual Models & Interface Metaphors

Ubiquitous Computing (make-up later)

PowerPoint 2.6 MB  

Norman Chapter 1 (subset)

Mark Weiser SciAm Article

 
Thur
10/25
Low-fi Prototyping PowerPoint 8.2 MB  

Snyder, Paper Prototyping, Ch. 4

Discussion of guidelines for user observation
By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol

 
Tue
10/30

Heuristic Evaluation

Midterm Course Evaluation

PowerPoint 757 KB  

Lewis & Rieman 4.3-4.4

Nielsen HE chapter (read 5 links under "Jakob Nielsen's Online Writings on Heuristic Evaluation")

#4 Video Prototype (Group)

Thur
11/1

Design Patterns (web, mobile, ubicomp)

Discuss Midterm Evaluation

PowerPoint 7.3 MB  

Chapter 2 of The Design of Sites

Patterns C2, K2, H1, B4, M2, M3 from The Design of Sites

"E13 - Notification on Access of Personal Data" pattern from the Digital Home patterns
"B6 • FIND A FRIEND" pattern from the Ubicomp Pre-Patterns

#5 Simple Heuristic Evaluation (Individual)
Tue
11/6
MIDTERM

 

Thur
11/8
Work on Project in Class


   

 

Tue
11/13

Rapid Prototyping Tools

 

PowerPoint 7.2 MB  

Chapter 4 of The Design of Sites

What do Prototypes Prototye? by Houde and Hill

Optional: The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper

 

Thur
11/15

Presentations #2

 

 

#6 Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Usability Testing

Example Consent Form

Tue
11/20

Visual Design

 

PowerPoint 6.6 MB  

Mullet & Sano, Designing Visual Interfaces, Ch. 2 and Ch. 5

 
Thur 11/22
THANKSGIVING
Tue
11/27

User Testing

Final Course Evaluation

PowerPoint 4.5 MB  

Appendix A from The Design of Sites

Gomoll paper

Statistica Ch1, and parts of Ch3

Lewis & Rieman Ch. 5

 
Thur
11/29

Work on Projects during Class (staff will meet around building)

   

 

#7 Interactive Prototype (due on Friday at 5 PM -- online)
Tue
12/4

In class work on summary HE
Location change: CSE 022 Lab

   

 

#8 Project HE (individual)
#9 Project HE (group)
Thur
12/6
Final Presentations & Project Fair
10:30 AM-1:30 PM (JHN 175)
   

 

#10 Project Poster (group) - due Wed.
#11 Final Presentation
Mon 12/10

 

FINAL EXAM 10:30-12:20, EEB 037

 


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