CSE 510 Schedule

CSE 510 -- Winter 1999 -- Schedule

Jan 5 Course overview; Introduction to HCI; Importance of Design
Reading: Don Norman, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Things"
Jan 7 HCI history: Xerox Star, Alan Kay videotape.

Jan 12 design and evaluation; research vs product development in usability testing and engineering
Jan 14 Guest lecture on ethnography: Clarke Speed, Department of Anthropology.

Jan 19 ethnography and design
Jan 21 designing usable systems.

Jan 26 methodology in the social sciences (McGrath paper); contextual inquiry
Jan 28 Project discussions

Feb 2 Instead of class in the usual room please attend Alfred Kobsa's talk on " User-Tailored Information Environments" in Room 220 of Odegaard 10:30 a.m.
Feb 4 Project discussions.

Feb 9 Tom Furness, UW Human Interface Technology Lab: the human side of interfaces
Feb 11 No class

Feb 16 Tom Furness: virtual interfaces
Feb 18 guest lecture: David Kurlander, Microsoft Research, "Comic Chat: Research and Product Retrospective"

Feb 23 psychological foundations; topics in social psychology relevant to HCI: computers as social actors, internet use and its effects. Readings:

"The Growth of Cognitive Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction Since GOMS" by Judith Olson and Gary Olson
"Computers Are Social Actors: A Review of Current Research" by Clifford Nass, Youngme Moon, John Morkes, Eun-Young Kim, and B.J. Fogg
"Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being?" by R. Kraut, M. Patterson, V. Lundmark, S. Kiesler, T. Mukophadhyay and W. Scherlis, American Psychologist, Vol. 53, No. 9, 1998; and "Implications of the Internet Paradox research" by R. Kraut, W. Scherlis, M. Patterson, S. Kiesler and T Mukhopadhyay, Communications of the ACM, 41(12), 21-22 (Dec. 1998). Both of these references are linked from the HomeNet Project page.

Feb 25 guest lecture: Matthew Turk, Microsoft Research. Please peruse papers from the 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, and after looking them over pick one or two to read.

Mar 2 Participatory Design. Optional reading: Pelle Ehn, "Work-oriented Design of Computer Artifacts," Chapter 1; Pelle Ehn, "Scandanavian Design: On Participation and Skill" (in Participatory Design: Principles and Practices by Doug Schuler and Aki Namioka), M. Christensen et al., "The M.A.D. Experience: Multiperspective Application Development in evolutionary prototyping," In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP '98), Brussels, Belgium.

Mar 4 Tom Furness: applications of virtual interfaces

Mar 9 Tim Nyerges (UW Geography Department), "Collaborative Decision Support Using GeoChoicePerspectives"

Mar 11 project presentations

Presenters:

Nathan and Dorian
Jeremy

Mar 15 10:30-12:20 -- project presentations continued (this is the final exam slot -- there won't be a final though); project paper due

Presenters:

Mark, Jeff, and Craig
Carson
Suichi