CS 5340 – Human-Computer Interaction

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Schedule

Date	Topics & Readings		Assignments
Lectures	Practice	Research	Due	Start
9/14	Overview of HCI and course (Guest lecture: Dan Schulman & James Yin)	Model presentation		I1, T1
9/21	Humans (Dix Ch 1). Computers (skim Dix Ch 2). HCI development process (Dix Ch 6).	Older Adults	I1	I2
9/28	Interaction paradigms (Dix Ch 3). Doing observational studies (Fetterman). HCI for older adults.	Ethnography	I2	I3
10/5	Requirements analysis (Dix Ch 13 & 15, Rosson part of Ch 2). Intro to Java Swing	Health interfaces	I3, T1	I4, T2
10/12	--- Columbus Day: NO CLASS ---
10/19	Design I (Dix Ch 5, Rosson Ch 3). GUI architectures and tools (Dix Ch 8). Swing events.	GUI tools	I4, T2	I5, T3
10/26	Design II (Rosson Ch 4 & 5). Swing layout managers.	Tangible interfaces	I5, T3	I6, T4
11/2	Universal design (Dix Ch 10). Paper prototyping (Rettig).	Social interfaces	I6,T4	T5
11/9	Models (Dix Ch 12). Ubicomp (Dix Ch 20).	Mobile interfaces	T5	T6
11/16	Heuristic evaluation (Dix Ch 9, Nielsen Ch 5)	Affective interfaces	T6	I7, T7
11/23	Dialog-based UIs (Dix Ch 14 & 16).	Speech interfaces	I7	I8, T9
11/30	CSCW (Dix Ch 19).	CSCW	I8, T7	T8
12/7	Usability testing (Nielsen Ch 6). Other assessment methods (Nielsen Ch 7). Motivation for Usability (Nielsen Ch 1). Olympic Message System (Gould).	Misc interfaces
12/14	Final project presentations.		T8,T9