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ISE 217- HCI- Tentative Lecture Schedule

Date Technical Lecture Topic Reading Material Activity
Session 1 8/28/2008
Introduction, Basics
Chapter: Introduction
A Moving Target: The evolution of HCI
Page 1-24
Selected Reading:Cognitive Ergonomics: It’s all in the mind
Erik Hollnagel, Ergonomics 1997, Vol; No 10
Project Team constitution Project Allocation Start Project 1 -No Quiz
Session 2 9/4/2008
Theoretical Foundations: Cognition and Information Processing: perception, and representation, memory, Constructivist Theories Ecological Theories, Affordances,
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 1 Perceptual-Motor Interaction – Some Implication for HCI Timothy N. Welsh , Daniel L Weeks & al. Page 27-42
Selected Reading: Motor Behavior Models for Human-Computer Interaction, Scott MacKenzie, In HCI Models, Theories and Frameworks
Selected Reading S-R Compatibility: Spatial Characteristics of Stimulus and Response Codes Paul M. Fitts Journal of Experimental Psychology
Quiz 1
Session 3 9/11/2008
Theoretical Foundations
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 2 Human Information Processing: An Overview for Human-Computer Interaction Proctor and Vu Page 43- 62
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 3 Mental Models In HCI Stephen J. Payne Page 63-77 Selected Reading Ecological Approach, J.R. Rajdukiewicz and K.J. Vincente

Quiz 2

Session 4 9/18/2008
Theoretical Foundations in HCI
Selected Reading: The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, Stuart Card, Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell.
Quiz 3 Submit Project 1 Start Project 2
Session 5 9/25/2008
Visual Design Principles for Usable Interfaces

The HCI Handbook:Visual Design Principles for Usable Interfaces, Susanne Watzman, Page 329--355

Quiz 4
Session 6 10/02/2008
Human Error Identification in Human-computer Interaction

The HCI Handbook: Human Error Identification in Human—Computer Interaction Neville A. Stanton Page 147-158
Selected Reading:Categorization of Action Slips, Donald Norman

Quiz 5
Session 7 10/09/2008
User Profiling- Infomation Foraging

The HCI Handbook:Chapter 51
Putting Persona to Work
Tamara Adlin, John Pruittt
991-1016
Selected Reading:Information Foraging Theory: Framework and Method, Peter Pirolli, Series in Human-Technology Interaction, Oxford University Press, 2007
Selected Reading:The Ecology of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web, Peter Pirolli, Series in Human-Technology Interaction, Oxford University Press, 2007

Quiz 6
Session 8 10/16/2008
Midterm
The HCI Handbook:Prototyping Tools and Techniques
Michel Beaudouin Lafon and Wendy Mackay Page
1017-1040

Quiz 7- Submit Project 2 Start Project 3

Midterm

Session 9 10/23/2008
User Research Methodology: Task Analysis
The HCI Handbook: Task Analysis Chapter 48 Catherine Courage, Janice Redish and Dennis Wixon Page 927-949
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 49 Continual Design Karen Holtzblatt Page 949-963 The HCI Handbook: Chapter 50 Ethnographical Approach to Design Jeanette Blomberg, Mark Burrell Page 965-988
Selected Reading: Information Processing and Skilled Behavior Bonnie E. John In HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks Edited by John M. Carroll ISBN 1-55860-808-7

Quiz 8

Session 10 10/30/2008
Method for Evaluating User Interfaces 1
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 59
Inspection-based Evaluations
Cockton, Lavery and Woolych
Page 1171-1190,
Selected Reading: Optimizing Heuristic Evaluation Process in E-Commerce: Use of the Tagushi Method Chen Ling and Gavriel Salvendy. Journal of HCI 23(3) 271-287- 2007
Quiz 9
Session 11 11/06/2008
Method for Evaluating User Interfaces 2
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 57 Usability Testing: Current Practice and Future Directions Joseph S. Dumas Page 1129-1149
Quiz 10

Submit Project 3

Start Project 4
Session 12 11/13/2008
User Experience and Software Development
Quiz 11
Session 13 11/20/2008
Universal Design and Accessibility in User Interface Design

The HCI Handbook: Chapter 43 Perceptual Impairments and Computing Technologies Julie A. Jacko, Holly S. Vitense, and Ingrid U.S Page 853-884
The HCI Handbook: Chapter 45 Computing Technologies For Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users Vicki, L. Hanson Page 885-893
Selected Reading: What Frustrates Screen Reader Users on the Web: A study of 100 Blind Users, Jonathan Lazar, Aaron Allen and al. Journal of HCI 23(3) 271-287- 2007

Quiz 12
11/27/2008 No Class Thanksgiving Holiday  
Session 14 12/04/2008
Social, Legal and Ethical Issues In Computer Human Interaction

Selected reading: A gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computer and the Internet, 2end Edition,

Sara Baase,
Information Accountably, Daniel J. Weitzner and al. June 2008, Vol. No 6 Communication on the ACM

Quiz 13
Submit Project 4

Session 15 12/20/2008
Cost Justification
Cost Justification, Bias, Mayhew and Upmanyu, Page 1202-1213
Quiz 14
Dec 12-18
Final Exam
 

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850 points >= A-, A, A+>= 1000 points

700 points >= B-, B, B+>= 849 points
600 points >= C-, C, C+ >=699 points
500 points >= D-, D, D+ >=599 points
 

Grading

Class and team participation= 60 Points

13 Quizzes and 1 homework @10 points each=140 points
4 projects @ 100 points each= 400 points
1 Midterm @ 140 points= 140 points
Final Exame @ 260 points= 260 points
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The Human Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications Edited by Julie A. Jacko and Andrew Sears Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 2008 ISBN0-8058-4468-6 (pbk.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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