Calendar

Tue Jan 7

Introductions and Overview

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Reading Format

No reading is assigned.

Thu Jan 9

Visions of Human-Computer Interaction

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

These "vision" papers challenged a dominant pattern, proposed going beyond mimicking prior technologies, or cast a vision of future technologies. This is not an exhaustive set of such papers, just a set chosen to be interesting and appropriate.

Reading Format

No reading report is assigned.

Each student has two responsibilities:

  • Organize into groups to briefly present one of the above vision papers.

    Remember most people will not have read the paper you are presenting. It is therefore your responsibility to explain the vision. One useful way of breaking down and explaining the vision might be to discuss these points:

    • What was the status quo at the time the authors wrote this?
    • What was the author’s vision of future technologies?
    • How has this vision played out since this publication?

    Available time for each paper is extremely limited. You will not be able to fully present these papers, but aim to give your classmates insight into what they might find if they were to read the paper. Rehearse your presentation to ensure you stay within the agreed time.

    Sign up for a paper, and collaborate as a group to prepare your presentation as 2 to 3 slides in the shared Slides deck for this day:

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13vHGA0QND7_KURsE6gJNiPZzF26Kxk65?usp=sharing

  • Individually review at least one more of the above vision papers.

    Reading a second paper benefits in-class discussion, helping you see these visions and explore them appropriately. Because some of these papers are quite long, you can and should skim according to your needs.

Tue Jan 14

Contributions in Human-Computer Interaction

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Reading Format

No reading report is assigned.

Each student has three responsibilities:

  • Read the framing paper and come prepared for discussion.

    Although class will not use the full discussion format, it will include time dedicated to small-group discussion and the surfacing of questions from those discussions.

  • Select any two full papers from a recent major HCI research conference. Find papers by searching the web or by browsing and searching conference programs.

    For example, CHI 2024 provides a searchable program:

    CHI 2024 Program

    Ensure papers you select are full papers (i.e., marked as part of the "Papers" track in blue or the "Journals" track in green, noting the link above is configured to filter content from other CHI 2024 tracks).

    You may select any papers you want to spend more time reviewing (e.g., papers that seem interesting for any reason, papers related to a topic that might help inform your identification of a course project, papers related to a form of contribution or a method that might help inform your proposal of a course project). Given this day's focus on forms of contribution, you may want to choose two papers that emphasize different forms of contribution.

    Review your selected papers with a focus on how they organize their research and present their contributions, within the forms of contribution presented by the framing paper. We do not expect you to focus on the details of these papers, but rather their organization and how their research is presented. You can and should skim according to your needs. In-class discussion will focus on the framing paper.

  • Submit this Form, sharing your selected papers and their primary form of contribution:

    https://forms.gle/YfaQDAhr5ucp6sKN9

Thu Jan 16

In-Class Time for Project Groups

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Reading Format

No reading is assigned.

Mon Jan 20

Holiday: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tue Jan 21

Human-Computer Interaction History

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Reading Format

No reading is assigned.

Additional Optional Resources

Thu Jan 23

Usability Evaluation Considered Harmful

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Sun Jan 26

Assignment Due

Tue Jan 28

Research Topic: Design Tools

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Thu Jan 30

Research Topic: Participatory Approaches to AI

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Tue Feb 4

Research Topic: Designing with Children

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Thu Feb 6

Research Topic: CSCW and Social Computing

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Sun Feb 9

Assignment Due

Tue Feb 11

Project Milestone Meetings

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Thu Feb 13

Project Milestone Meetings

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Mon Feb 17

Holiday: Presidents' Day

Tue Feb 18

Research Topic: Accessibility

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

  • Jacob O. Wobbrock, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Shaun K. Kane, Gregg C. Vanderheiden. Ability-Based Design. CACM. 2018.

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Thu Feb 20

Research Topic: Information and Communication Technologies and Development

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Tue Feb 25

Research Topic: Human-Agent Interaction

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

  • Adam Fourney, Gagan Bansal, Hussein Mozannar, Cheng Tan, Eduardo Salinas, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Friederike Niedtner, Grace Proebsting, Griffin Bassman, Jack Gerrits, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Robert West, Victor Dibia, Ahmed Awadallah, Ece Kamar, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi. Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks. arXiv. 2024.

  • Gagan Bansal, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Saleema Amershi, Eric Horvitz, Adam Fourney, Hussein Mozannar, Victor Dibia, Daniel S. Weld. Challenges in Human-Agent Communication. arXiv. 2024.

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Thu Feb 27

Research Topic: Mental Health and Wellness

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Sun Mar 2

Assignment Due

Tue Mar 4

Project Milestone Meetings

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Thu Mar 6

Project Milestone Meetings

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Tue Mar 11

Research Topic: Interface Toolkits

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Thu Mar 13

Research Topic: Sustained HCI Research in the Wild

10:00 to 11:20
CSE2 G10

Read the framing paper:

Select one additional instance reading:

Standard Reading Format

As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.

Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 5pm the day before class:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1786160/discussion_topics

Mon Mar 17

Assignment Due