CSE510 Schedule Week 3

Week 3 Readings (heavy reading week)

Reviews are due by 5pm April 10 for the Blomberg and Beyer readings, and by 5pm April 12 for the two Nielsen readings.

• J. Blomberg et al., "Ethnographic Field Methods and their Relation to Design." In Participatory Design: Principles and Practices. L. Erlbaum Associates, 1993.
  Presenter: Sandra
  Post and read reviews for this paper.
• Contextual Design, by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt, Chapters 1-4. (On reserve in the Engineering Library - there are also several copies in the HCI lab.)
  Presenters: Shobhit (Ch. 1-2) and Lillie (Ch. 3-4)
  Post and read reviews for this paper.
• Heuristic Evaluation by Jakob Nielsen (available online -- read the items linked under "Jakob Nielsen's Online Writings on Heuristic Evaluation")
  Presenter: Jessica
  Post and read reviews for this paper.
• Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier by J. Nielsen (available online)
  Presenter: Scott
  Post and read reviews for this paper.

Optional Readings

• Using Video in the BNR Usability Lab, S. Kennedy
• Usability Inspection Methods, R. Mack and J. Nielsen

These three papers are available in Readings in human-computer interaction: Toward the year 2000, on reserve in the Engineering Library.