Calendar
Tue Mar 31
Introductions and Overview
Thu Apr 2
Visions of Human-Computer Interaction
Tue Apr 7
Contributions in Human-Computer Interaction
Thu Apr 9
Usability Evaluation Considered Harmful
Tue Apr 14
Office Hours for Project Groups
Thu Apr 16
Office Hours for Project Groups
Sun Apr 19
Assignment Due
Tue Apr 21
Research Topic: Design Tools
Read the framing paper:
Mark W. Newman, James Lin, Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay. DENIM: An Informal Web Site Design Tool Inspired by Observations of Practice. HCI. 2003.
Select one additional instance reading:
Jonathan Chen, Dongwook Yoon. Exploring the Diminishing Allure of Paper and Low-Fidelity Prototyping Among Designers in the Software Industry: Impacts of Hybrid Work, Digital Tools, and Corporate Culture. CHI 2024.
Peitong Duan, Jeremy Warner, Yang Li, Bjoern Hartmann. Generating Automatic Feedback on UI Mockups with Large Language Models. CHI 2024.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
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https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsThu Apr 23
Research Topic: Accessibility
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:
Chen Liang, Yuxuan Liu, Martez Mott, Anhong Guo.. HandProxy: Expanding the Affordances of Speech Interfaces in Immersive Environments with a Virtual Proxy Hand. IMWUT 2025.
Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Liang-Yuan Wu, Dhruv Jain. CapTune: Adapting Non-Speech Captions With Anchored Generative Models. ASSETS 2025.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
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https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsTue Apr 28
Research Topic: Interactive Devices and Fabrication
Read the framing paper:
Hiroshi Ishii, Dávid Lakatos, Leonardo Bonanni, Jean-Baptiste Labrune. Radical Atoms: Beyond Tangible Bits, Toward Transformable Materials. Interactions 2012.
Select one additional instance reading:
Junyi Zhu, Jackson C. Snowden, Joshua Verdejo, Emily Chen, Paul Zhang, Hamid Ghaednia, Joseph H. Schwab, Stefanie Mueller. EIT-kit: An Electrical Impedance Tomography Toolkit for Health and Motion Sensing. UIST 2021.
Yiyue Luo, Chao Liu, Young Joong Lee, Joseph DelPreto, Kui Wu, Michael Foshey, Daniela Rus, Tomás Palacios, Yunzhu Li, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik. Adaptive Tactile Interaction Transfer via Digitally Embroidered Smart Gloves. Nature Communications 2024.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsThu Apr 30
Research Topic: Human-AI Interaction
Read the framing paper:
Eric Horvitz. Principles of Mixed-Initiative User Interfaces. CHI 1999.
Select one additional instance reading:
Jeffrey Heer. Agency plus Automation: Designing Artificial Intelligence into Interactive Systems. PNAS. 2019.
K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, Jonathan Bragg, Daniel S. Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Joseph Chee Chang. Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents. arXiv. 2024.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsSun May 3
Assignment Due
Tue May 5
Project Milestone Meetings
Thu May 7
Project Milestone Meetings
Tue May 12
Research Topic: CSCW and Social Computing
Read the framing paper:
Mark S. Ackerman. The Intellectual Challenge of CSCW: The Gap Between Social Requirements and Technical Feasibility. HCI. 2000.
Select one additional instance reading:
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsThu May 14
Research Topic: Research Through Design
Read the framing paper:
William Gaver. What Should We Expect from Research through Design?. CHI 2012.
Select one additional instance reading:
Audrey Desjardins, Jena McWhirter, Justin Petelka, Chandler Simon, Yuna Shin, Ruby K Peven, Philbert Widjaja. On the Making of Alternative Data Encounters: The Odd Interpreters. CHI 2023.
Noura Howell, Audrey Desjardins, Sarah Fox. Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnography. ToCHI 2021.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsFri May 15
Assignment Due
Tue May 19
Research Topic: Interface Toolkits
Read the framing paper:
Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, Randy Pausch. Past, Present, and Future of User Interface Software Tools. TOCHI 2000.
Select one additional instance reading:
Junhan Kong, Mingyuan Zhong, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock. The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT): Developer Support for Runtime Interface Adaptation Based on Users' Abilities. MobileHCI 2024.
Josh Pollock, Catherine Mei, Grace Huang, Elliot Evans, Daniel Jackson, Arvind Satyanarayan. Bluefish: Composing Diagrams with Declarative Relations. UIST 2024.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
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https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsThu May 21
Research Topic: Human-Agent Interaction
Read the framing paper:
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.
Select one additional instance reading:
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsSun May 24
Assignment Due
Mon May 25
Holiday: Memorial Day
Tue May 26
Project Milestone Meetings
Thu May 28
Project Milestone Meetings
Fri May 29
Assignment Due
Tue Jun 2
Research Topic: HCI and Health
Read the framing paper:
Petr Slovak, Sean A. Munson. HCI Contributions in Mental Health: A Modular Framework to Guide Psychosocial Intervention Design. CHI 2024.
Select one additional instance reading:
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topicsThu Jun 4
Research Topic: Sustained HCI Research in the World
Read the framing paper:
Philip Guo. Ten Million Users and Ten Years Later: Python Tutor’s Design Guidelines for Building Scalable and Sustainable Research Software in Academia. UIST 2021.
Select one additional instance reading:
Richard Li, Philip Vutien, Sabrina Omer, Michael Yacoub, George Ioannou, Ravi Karkar, Sean A. Munson, James Fogarty. Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring with Critical Flicker Frequency. CHI 2025.
Standard Reading Format
As described in Readings and Discussion Posts.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1881189/discussion_topics