CSG170 – Human-Computer Interaction

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Schedule

Date	Topics & Readings		Assignments
Lectures	Practice	Research	Due	Start
9/16	Overview of HCI and course.	Model presentation		I1, T1
9/23	Humans (Dix Ch 1). Computers (skim Dix Ch 2). HCI development process (Dix Ch 6). Guest lecture: Dr. Auerbach, BMC Geriatrics.	Older Adults	I1	I2
9/30	Interaction paradigms (Dix Ch 3). Doing observational studies (Fetterman). HCI for older adults.	Ethnography	I2	I3
10/7	Requirements analysis (Dix Ch 13 & 15, Rosson part of Ch 2). Intro to Java Swing	Health interfaces	I3, T1	I4, T2
10/14	Design I (Dix Ch 5, Rosson Ch 3). GUI architectures and tools (Dix Ch 8). Swing events.	GUI tools	I4, T2	I5, T3
10/21	Design II (Rosson Ch 4 & 5). Swing layout managers.	Tangible interfaces	I5, T3	I6, T4
10/28	Universal design (Dix Ch 10). Paper prototyping (Rettig).	Social interfaces	I6,T4	T5
11/4	Models (Dix Ch 12). Ubicomp (Dix Ch 20).	Mobile interfaces	T5	T6
11/11	-------- Veteran's Day: NO CLASS --------
11/18	Heuristic evaluation (Dix Ch 9, Nielsen Ch 5)	Affective interfaces	T6	I7, T7
11/25	Dialog-based UIs (Dix Ch 14 & 16).	Speech interfaces	I7	I8, T9
12/2	CSCW (Dix Ch 19).	CSCW	I8, T7	T8
12/9	Usability testing (Nielsen Ch 6). Other assessment methods (Nielsen Ch 7). Motivation for Usability (Nielsen Ch 1). Olympic Message System (Gould).	Misc interfaces
TBD	Final project presentations. (12/19?)		T8,T9