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Schedule

DFAB = Dix Finlay Abowd Beale Textbook on HCI. It is at the bookstore (or it should be) but pricey. I recommend buying used on Amazon and will scan the first couple of chapters to ensure that you have the time for it to come in.

Other Readings can all be downloaded here or are linked on the day in the table below. Note: There are some additional readings in this zip that are just things I think you might find interesting. You should check each week what is assigned versus optional.

  Date Topic Readings (TO BE DONE BEFORE CLASS)

Assignments

Due

Handed Out
Week 1 Tu 10/2 Introduction to Course R1, P0, How to Read
Th 10/4 cancelled due to illness  R1
Week 2 Tu 10/9 What is Design?; Establishing your project problems, group work S1, P1
Th 10/11 Design Process
  • DFAB Chapters 6 & 7
 S1,  P0 R2, S2,  A1
Week 3 Tu 10/16 Fundamentals of Interaction
  • DFAB Chapter 5
  • Norman, D.A. (1988) Chs. 1-4 in The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, pp. vii-xxi, 1-104.
  • Gaver, W.W. (1991) Technology affordances. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’91). New York: ACM Press, pp. 79-84.
  • Liddle, D. (1996) Design of the conceptual model. Ch. 2 in T. Winograd (ed.), Bringing Design to Software. New York: ACM Press, pp. 17-36. (HTML version available online.)
 R2
Th 10/18 Look, Learn, Ask, Try;Project Advice
  • DFAB Chapters 13, 15
  • IDEO (2003) IDEO Method Cards: 51 Ways to Inspire Design. W. Stout Architectural Books, San Francisco. Look at the information online, and if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can download an app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideo-method-cards/id340233007?mt=8
 A1, S2 A2, R3, S3
Week 4 Tu 10/23(guest lecture from Paul Dourish) Contextual Inquiry,  Ethnography, and Field Observations
  • Dourish chapter on ethnography
  • Beyer, H. and Holtzblatt, K. (1998) Chs. 1, 3, 4 & 6 in Contextual Design. San Francisco: Morgan Kauffman, pp. 1-26, 41-78, 89-123.
  • Blomberg, J. and Burrell, M. (2008) An ethnographic approach to design. In A. Sears and J.A. Jacko (eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Taylor and Francis, pp. 965-988
 R3
Th 10/25 Surveys & Interviews
  • Chapters from Mail, Internet, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (scanned)
  • Chapters from The Ethnographic Interview (Spradley, scanned)
 S3, A2 R4, S4
Week 5 Tu 10/30 User Research Case Studies
  • Grinter, R. E., Aoki, P. M., Hurst, A., Szymanski, M. H., Thornton, J. D. and A. Woodruff (2002) “Revisiting the Visit: Understanding How Technology Can Shape the Museum Visit” in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002).
  • Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008)”Breaking the paradigm of disposable technology: Opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. (pdf)
 R4
Th 11/1 Scenarios & Storyboarding S4 S5, R5, P2
Week 6 Tu 11/6 NO CLASS  P1 (due to EEE)
Th 11/8 Sketching & Notations
  • Buxton, W. (2007) Selections from Sketching User Experiences. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 104-141.
  • Buxton, W. (2007) It was a dark and stormy night. Sketching User Experiences. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 261-271.
  • DFAB Chapter 16
 R5, S5  R6, S6
Week 7 Tu 11/13 Ideation R6 A3
Th 11/15 Prototyping
  • DFAB Chapter 8
  • Rudd, J., Stern, K. and Isensee, S. (1996) Low vs. high-fidelity prototyping debate. interactions 3 (1), pp. 76-85.
  • Paper Prototyping Video — Download in three parts from EEE. Each part is around 10 minutes.
  • OPTIONAL: Ehn, P. and Kyng, M. (1991) Cardboard computers: Mocking-it-up or hands-on the future. In J. Greenbaum and M. Kyng (Eds.), Design at work: Cooperative design of computer systems. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 169-195.
 S6  R7, , P3
Week 8 Tu 11/20 Analytical Evaluation (Voting), (HE Form) P2 (sketches and report), R7 P4
Th 11/22 NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
Week 9 Tu 11/27 Empirical Evaluation
  • Dumas, J.S. and Redish, J.C. (1999) Chs. 2, 11 & 12 in A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, revised edition. Portland, Oregon: Intellect, pp. 21-38, 159-182.
  A3  R8
Th 11/29 HCI in the Real World
  • Book Chapters in Press (on Deployments and Action Research). To be posted.
  • Sears, A. and Jacko, J. (2008) Future trends in human-computer interaction. The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J.A. Jacko (eds). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 1281-1290.
  • OPTIONAL: Poltrock, S.E. and Grudin, J. (1994) Organizational obstacles to interface design and development: Two participant-observer studies.  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 1 (1), pp. 52-80.
  R8  SF
Week 10 Tu 12/4 Prototype Demos P3 demos
Th 12/6 Class Summary & Evaluations P3 uploaded, SF
Finals Week Monday 12/10 Final Project Design Expo @ noon P4 (pitch)
Friday 12/14 5PM Final Design Specs P4 (spec)

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