IS4300– Human-Computer Interaction

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Schedule

 

Date

Topics & Readings

Assignments

Due

Start

9/6

Overview of HCI and course. Team Projects.

 

I1,T1

9/10

Motivation for design. Affordances & Cognitive Models. Heuristic Evaluation. Norman's Interaction Model & Cognitive Walk-through Evaluation. (Norman Ch 1-2).

 

I2

9/13

Further motivation. Designing for human memory. Design for obviousness. Team project brainstorming. (Norman Ch 3-4) (Guest lecture: Barbara Barry)

I1

 

9/17

Doing observational studies (Stone Ch 2, Fetterman; Example 1; Example 2).

I2

I3

9/20

Design for Errors. HCI development process (Norman Ch 5-6-7; Stone Ch 1).

T1a

 

9/24

Users & Tasks (Stone Ch 3-4)

T1b

T2

9/27

Requirements Analysis (Stone Ch 5-7)

 

10/1

Conceptual Design (Stone Ch 8). Interaction design (Stone Ch 10-11). [Intro to Java Swing]

T2, I3

T3, I4

10/4

GUI Software Components (Stone Ch 13). UI Design Layout (Stone Ch 14-15). [Swing events.]

I4

I5

10/8

HOLIDAY

T3 T4

10/11

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

10/18

Preparing for Usability Testing (Stone Ch 22-24). In class paper prototyping rehearsal. Sample user briefing. T5a T5b

10/22

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