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
Thu Apr 23
Research Topic: Accessibility
Tue Apr 28
Research Topic: Interactive Devices and Fabrication
Thu Apr 30
Research Topic: Human-AI Interaction
Sun 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:
Chenyan Jia, Michelle S. Lam, Minh Chau Mai, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein.. Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions. CSCW 2024.
Jack Bandy, Nicholas Diakopoulos. More Accounts, Fewer Links: How Algorithmic Curation Impacts Media Exposure in Twitter Timelines. CSCW 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_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.
Post a reading report in the appropriate thread, by 7:00pm the day before class:
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:
Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Cheng Tan, Adam Fourney, Victor Dibia, Jingya Chen, Jack Gerrits, Tyler Payne, Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Eric Zhu, Griffin Bassman, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Friederike Niedtner, Ece Kamar, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi. Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems. arXiv 2025.
Faria Huq, Zora Zhiruo Wang, Frank F. Xu, Tianyue Ou, Shuyan Zhou, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Graham Neubig. COWPILOT: A Framework for Autonomous and Human-Agent Collaborative Web Navigation. NAACL 2025 Demo.
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.
Shaan Chopra, Jeanne Carroll, Jessica Pater. Providing Context to the “Unknown”: Patient and Provider Reflections on Connecting Personal Tracking, Patient-Reported Insights, and EHR Data within a Post-COVID Clinic. CSCW 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_topics