CSE510 Schedule

CSE 510 Schedule - Spring 2005

In most cases the weekly readings list contains links to online versions of the paper. When easily available, we've linked to publicly accessible versions of the papers; otherwise the link will be to the ACM Digital Library.  UW has a site license for this library.  From machines on the campus network or dialed in via the C&C modems, you can follow the links without further ado.  From off-campus, connect to the ACM Digital Library via the UW Libraries Proxy Server, then paste the URL for the paper into the web form.

Week 1: Overview; Large Displays; Design and Evaluation Techniques Part 1 (User Testing)

Readings for Week 1

Traditionally I've started out the course with HCI history -- but we're going to try something different this time for the first class, and after an overview of the course, we'll plunge into some recent work (by Patrick) on display technology, which will illustrate the entire HCI cycle from user needs to technology investigations to empirical studies. (History will now be near the end of the course.)

• March 28: Course overview; Large Displays (Patrick Baudisch). (Talk slides, More about focus-plus-context screens)
• March 30: "Usability Testing as a User-Centered Design Tool" (Judy Ramey, Dept of Technical Communication, UW, guest lecture). Slides: ppt, pdf.

Week 2: CHI

Readings for Week 2

• April 4: no class meeting - CHI conference
• April 6: no class meeting - CHI conference
  Lab 1 due April 6.

Week 3: Design and Evaluation Techniques Part 2

Readings for Week 3

• April 11: CHI reports and discussion. Ethnography; contextual inquiry.
  Human subjects issues (see Human Subjects Review Information for CSE).
  Mini-poster session at the end of class with Lab 1 results
• April 13: heuristic evaluation
  Lab 2 due April 13; mini-poster session at the end of class with Lab 2 results.

Week 4: Participatory Design; Value-Sensitive Design

Readings for Week 4.

• April 18: Participatory Design; Value Sensitive Design
  Short project description due April 18.
• April 20: Presentations of project proposals & discussion. Guest: Batya Friedman, UW Information School.

Week 5: Information Visualization; Accessibility; Input

Readings for Week 5.

• April 25: information visualization (Jock Mackinlay, guest lecture).
• April 27: accessibility
  Lab 3 due April 27.

Week 6: Search and Information Retrieval; Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Readings for Week 6.

• May 2: search and information retrieval (Sue Dumais, Microsoft Research, guest lecture)
• May 4: collaborative filtering; ESP game

Week 7: Ubiquitous Computing & Small Screen Devices

Readings for Week 7.

• May 9: Ubicomp
• May 11: "Small Screens" (Patrick)

Week 8: Technology and Toolkits

Readings for Week 8.

• May 16: constraints (Alan); paper discussions
• May 18:  James Landay, "Informal User Interfaces"

Week 9: History; Social Computing

Readings for Week 9.

• May 23: Jonathan Grudin, History of HCI
• May 25: Social Computing

Week 10

• May 30 - Holiday
• June 1: Project Presentations

Finals week

• June 6: Project reports due
• June 8 (8:30-10:20) - final exam slot - project presentations continued