CSE 590H - Human Computer Interaction Seminar

Autumn 2004

Seminar coordinators: Richard Anderson, Alan Borning, and James Landay
Tuesdays 1:30-2:20
Where: CSE 403, in the Allen Center

Principal contact for organizational matters: Alan Borning (borning@cs.washington.edu)

The Human Computer Interaction Seminar lives!  With the growing interest and activity in human computer interaction in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, as well as in other departments around campus, it's time to have a regularly scheduled research seminar in the area.  This will be a traditional 590 seminar: we'll pick a set of topics and papers, and every week we'll discuss 1-2 papers.  The papers will be chosen from the current research literature, such as papers from conferences such as ACM CHI, UIST, and the Participatory Design Conference, and journals such as ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, the Human Computer Interaction journal, and others.  Our plan is to continue the seminar for all three quarters of the academic year.

Since we are reading current rather than classic HCI papers, not everyone will always have the relevant background for a given paper - hopefully the presenter and other seminar participants can help fill things in however.  For students who do want a more thorough grounding in HCI, including classic papers, take CSE 510, "Advanced Topics in HCI," which will be offered in Spring 2005.

Schedule and Topics

We are going to discuss a paper in the first seminar, in addition to taking care of housekeeping. (It's just a short paper this time, so that we will also have time for arranging for who presents papers in subsequent weeks.)

Administrative Details

The seminar is variable credit, 1-3 credits.  Students taking the seminar for 1 credit are expected to attend each week, read the papers in advance, and participate actively in the discussion.  Students taking the seminar for 3 credits are also expected to organize a presentation.  While the seminar is in CSE, graduate students with a strong interest in HCI and an appropriate background from other departments are very welcome.  HCI is inherently interdisciplinary, and this mix of disciplines is essential.  Interested students from other departments: please contact Alan Borning if you want to register.

An email list for the seminar has been set up.  To subscribe, go to http://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cse590h.