CSE 510 Schedule - Spring 2001

Week 1: Introduction; Design and Evaluation Techniques

Readings for Week 1

• March 26: overview and history of HCI.
• March 28: user-centered design; design techniques. Also student introductions, opening bids for course projects.
• March 30: ethnography; contextual inquiry.
  Lab 1 due March 30.

Week 2: CHI

Readings for Week 2

• April 2: no class meeting - CHI conference
• April 4: no class meeting - CHI conference
• April 6: CHI reports and discussion.
  Lab 2 due April 6.

Week 3: Design and Evaluation Techniques

Readings for Week 3

• April 9: user testing (Judy Ramey, Dept of Technical Communication, UW, guest lecture).
  Slides from Judy's presentation: .ppt; html
  Thinking Aloud: Reconciling Theory and Practice by M. Ted Boren and Judy Ramey (available online)
• April 11: heuristic evaluation

Week 4: Value-Sensitive Design; Technology, Toolkits, Architecture

Readings for Week 4. Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, April 17. Responses are due before class on Wednesday. (Please read the Myers paper before class on Monday, though, since we'll be discussing it then - although you don't have to have the review done by class.

• April 16: toolkits
  Short project description due April 16.
• April 18: value-sensitive design (Batya Friedman, Information School, UW, guest lecture).
  Lab 3 due April 18.

Week 5: Ubiquitous Computing

Readings for Week 5. Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, April 24. Responses are due before class on Wednesday.

• April 23: ubiquitous computing
• April 25: ubiquitous computing
  Lab 4 due April 25.

Week 6: Search and Information Retrieval; Agents and Intelligent Interfaces

Readings for Week 6. Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, May 1. Responses are due before class on Wednesday.

• April 30: search and information retrieval (Sue Dumais, Microsoft Research, guest lecture)
• May 2: agents and intelligent interfaces

Week 7: Participatory Design; Findings from Social Psychology; Acessibility

Readings for Week 7. Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, May 8. Responses are due before class on Wednesday.

• May 7: participatory design (and findings from social psychology if there's time)
• May 9: universal access (Dan Comden, UW Adaptive Technology Lab and DO-IT Program, guest lecture)
  slides from Dan's talk

Week 8: CSCW

Readings for Week 8. Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, May 15. Responses are due before class on Wednesday.

• May 14: guest lecture, Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research
• May 16: Jonathan Grudin, part 2
• Relevant talk: Tessa Lau, "Programming by demonstration: a machine learning approach", May 18, 10:30am

Week 9: Information Visualization; 3D Interfaces; Virtual & Augmented Reality

Readings for Week 9. Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, May 22. Responses are due before class on Wednesday.

• May 21: guest lecture, Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research
• May 23: information visualization continued

Week 10

• May 28 - Holiday
• May 30: Project Presentations

Finals week

• June 4: Project reports due
• June 6 (9:00-11:00 or earlier) - final exam slot - project presentations continued