[Syllabus] [Schedule] [Homework] [Projects] [Resources] [Directory]
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Overview of HCI and course. Team Projects. |
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Motivation for design. Affordances & Cognitive Models. Heuristic Evaluation. Norman's Interaction Model & Cognitive Walk-through Evaluation. (Norman Ch 1-2). |
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Further motivation. Designing for human memory. Design for obviousness. Team project brainstorming. (Norman Ch 3-4) (Guest lecture: Barbara Barry) |
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Doing observational studies (Stone Ch 2, Fetterman; Example 1; Example 2). |
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Design for Errors. HCI development process (Norman Ch 5-6-7; Stone Ch 1). |
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Users & Tasks (Stone Ch 3-4) |
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Requirements Analysis (Stone Ch 5-7) |
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Conceptual Design (Stone Ch 8). Interaction design (Stone Ch 10-11). [Intro to Java Swing] |
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GUI Software Components (Stone Ch 13). UI Design Layout (Stone Ch 14-15). [Swing events.] |
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10/8 |
HOLIDAY |
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Design guidelines (Stone Ch 9). GUI Design (Stone Ch 16). [Swing layout managers] |
I5 | I6 | ||
| 10/15 | Evaluation: Big Picture(Stone Ch 20-21). Paper prototyping (Rettig). | T4 | T5a | |
| Preparing for Usability Testing (Stone Ch 22-24). In class paper prototyping rehearsal. Sample user briefing. | T5a | T5b | ||
| Collecting and Analyzing Data (Stone Ch 25). Usability report template (usability.gov). | I6 | |||
| 10/25 | Advanced Evaluation (Stone Ch 27). Case study (Gould). | T5b | T6 | |
| 10/29 | Hurricane Sandy | |||
| 11/1 | Midterm Exam | |||
| 11/5 | Qualitative Methods (Guest lecture: Barbara Barry) | |||
| 11/8 | Midterm Review. Heuristic Evaluation (Stone Ch 26, Nielsen, Pinelle) | T6 | T7, I7 | |
| 11/12 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 11/15 | Communicating Results (Stone Ch 28-29) | I7 | ||
| 11/19 | Developments in UI Hardware (Stone Ch 12, Norman, Nielsen, Wolf. Optional: Ranasinghe) | T7 | T8, T9 | |
| 11/22 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 11/26 | Designing for the Web (Stone Ch 17) | |||
| 11/29 | Designing Embedded & Mobile UIs (Stone Ch 18, Leung, Chaudry) | T8 | ||
| 12/3 | Final Project Presentations. Review for Final. | T9 | ||
| 12/12 | Final Exam - 8am - Snell 246 | |||