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CSE 440 Lectures Lecture Calendar, Slides, & Due Dates Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:50 Date Topics PPT PDF Reading Due Assignment Due Thur 9/25 Introduction to the Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation of Human-Computer Interfaces 7.5 MB 1.5 MB None Tue 9/30 History of HCI Class Introductions 4.7MB 500 KB As We May Think by Vannevar Bush optional: Tools For Thought Ch 9 (Engelbart Demo) #1 Project Proposal (Individual) Thur 10/2 Choose Project Groups Design Discovery: Contextual Inquiry 4.3MB 850 KB Chapter 3 of Contextual Design   Tue 10/7 Design Discovery: Task Analysis Working as a Team 2.8 MB 559 KB Chapter 3 of The Design of Sites The Discipline of Teams optional: Lewis & Reiman Chapter 2   Thur 10/9 Design Sketching 1.9 MB 875 KB Pg. 35-51 from Buxton's Sketching User Experiences Tips for Working Successfully in a Group by Randy Pausch optional: Hektner, J. M., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2002). The experience sampling method: Measuring the context and content of lives #2 Contextual Inquiry (Group) Tue 10/14 Video Prototyping 2.5 MB 299 KB Beaudouin-Lafon & MacKay, pp. 1-22 Video Prototyping Examples     Thur 10/16 Presentations #1     #3 ESM & Task Analysis (Group) Tue 10/21 Human Abilities (guest lecture by Prof. Julie Kientz) 1.3 MB 524 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   Thur 10/23 Conceptual Models & Interface Metaphors 2.3 MB 736 KB Norman Chapter 1 (subset)   Tue 10/28 Heuristic Evaluation Watch Videos! 1 MB 475 KB Lewis & Rieman 4.3-4.4 Nielsen HE chapter (read 5 links under "Jakob Nielsen's Online Writings on Heuristic Evaluation") #4 Three Sketches & Video Prototype (Group) Thur 10/30 Design Patterns (web, mobile, ubicomp) Midterm Course Evaluation 7.2 MB 2.4 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   Tue 11/4 Low-fi Prototyping Discuss Midterm Evaluation 5.76 MB 834 KB Snyder, Paper Prototyping, Ch. 4 Discussion of guidelines for user observation By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol #5 Simple Heuristic Evaluation (Individual) Thur 11/6 Work on Project in Class       Tue 11/11 Veterans Day VETERANS DAY (but please do reading)   Chapter 4 of The Design of Sites What do Prototypes Prototype? by Houde and Hill Optional: The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper   Thur 11/13 Presentations #2     #6 Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Usability Testing (Group) Example Consent Form Tue 11/18 MIDTERM   Thur 11/20 Visual Design       Mullet & Sano, Designing Visual Interfaces, Ch. 2 and Ch. 5 #7 Hall of Fame and Shame (Individual) Tue 11/25 Work on Projects during Class (staff will meet with your team)         Thur 11/27 THANKSGIVING Tue 12/2 User Testing Final Course Evaluation     Appendix A from The Design of Sites Gomoll paper optional: Statistica Ch1, and parts of Ch3 optional: Lewis & Rieman Ch. 5 #8 Interactive Prototype (Group) Thur 12/4 Work in Class       #9 Poster (Group) -- due Fri #10 Final Presentation (Group) -- due Fri Mon 12/8   PROJECT FAIR: PRESENTATIONS & POSTER SESSION, 10:30-1:00, 037 EEB