Mark Corner

Schedule-F2007

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Essentials

Lecture: MW 3:35PM-4:50PM CMPSCI 140
Instructor: Mark Corner
Newsgroup: Not Needed Yet.
Textbook: Readings (see bottom of page)
Other Things you will need: the Edlab, a digital camera, basic art supplies
Things that could be helpful: A video camera

Course Description

In this course we examine the important problems in Usability, Human Computer Interaction, User Interfaces, and Human Centered Computing. We will examine elements of HCI history, understanding human capabilities, HCI design, several methods for prototyping user interfaces, and new applications and paradigms in human computer interaction. This is not a course in how to make dialog boxes, but rather a much more general approach to interacting with human beings and evaluating designs. Some elementary programming in Flash (or another user interface prototyping tool) may be required, but people without prior programming experience should feel right at home in this class. This is offered simultaneously at a 200-level and a 400-level. The 200-level course is available to any undergraduate student, not just computer scientists. IT-minor students are especially encouraged to participate. The 400-level version, available only to junior and senior computer science majors, will require extra work and will be graded on a separate scale. Several group projects and exams will be required. No prerequisites. 3 credits.

Note about the course materials:  I must extend my greatest thanks to Scott Klemer and Terry Winograd at Stanford for many of the lectures and projects used in thiscourse.  I also thank Jason Hong at CMU and James Landay at University of Washington for additional materials.

This is an experimental course.  There are bound to be some bumps along the way, so please bear with me.   I plan to teach this course again to a larger enrollement, so I will appreciate constructive feedback.  Feel free to provide this in person, by email, or even anonymously.

Projects

This course has 3 projects, two smaller projects and one major project.
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3

Grading

• Project 1 10%
• Project 2 10%
• Project 3 40%
• Midterm 30%
• In-Class Assignments 10%

Schedule

 

Week	Date	#	Topic	Slides	Coursework	Readings due
1	Sep. 3		No class			None
	Sep. 5		Introduction			None
2	Sep. 10		History of HCI		Project 1 Assigned	HIS-1, HIS-2
	Sep. 12		NC-Mark in SJC
3	Sep. 17		Design of Everyday Things			BAS-1, BAS-3
	Sep. 19		WIMPs			BAS-2
4	Sep. 24		Project I Presentations		Project 1 Due
	Sep. 26		Project 2 Assignment, Direct Manipulation		Project 2 Assigned	DES-1, DES-2
5	Oct. 1		Visual Interfaces			DES-3
	Oct. 3		Design Principles			DES-4
6	Oct. 8		Design Process I
	Oct. 10		Design Process II, Intro to Project 3		Project 2 Due, Project 3 Assigned	COG-1
7	Oct. 15		Human Abilities and Cognition
	Oct. 17		Color and Typography, Midterm Review		P1: POV Due
8	Oct. 22		Colors and Typography cont.			PHY-1, PRO-1
	Oct. 24		Midterm		P2: Contextual Inquiry Due (Friday)	PRO-2, PRO-3, PRO-4
9	Oct. 29		Studio Time
	Oct. 31		Studio Time (3:35-4), Project Proposals (4-4:50)		P3: Project Proposal Due, Group Eval
10	Nov. 5		Studio Time			EVA-1
	Nov. 7		Studio Time		P4: Storyboards Due
11	Nov. 12		No Class (Veterans Day)
	Nov. 14		Studio Time		P5: Paper Prototype Due	EVA-2
12	Nov. 19		Storyboards and Paper and Video Prototyping
	Nov. 21		Mid Project Presentations		P6: User Test Due
13	Nov. 26		Rapid Software Protoyping
	Nov. 28		Evaluation		Group Eval
14	Dec. 3		Designing for the Web			WEB-1
	Dec. 5		Emotional Design		P7: First HiFi Prototype Due, P8: Elevator Pitch Due	EMO-1
15	Dec. 10		Ubicomp
	Dec. 12		Last Class: Final Presentations		P9: Final Prototype Due
16	Dec. 17		NC
	Dec. 19		NC		P10: Writeup and Exe Due, Group Eval

 

 

Readings

History

• HIS-1: Vannevar Bush,"As We May Think", The Atlantic Monthly. July 1945
• HIS-2: "Inventing the Mouse" and "The Demo that Changed the World" in Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions pages 26-37
• HIS-3: Jakob Nielsen, Generations of User Interfaces, in Usability Engineering, Chapter 3, pp. 49-69

Basics

• BAS-1: Donald Norman, Chapter 1, The Psychopathology of Everyday Things, The Design of Everyday Things, pp. 1-33
• BAS-2: Hutchins et al., Direct Manipulation Interfaces, in Draper and Norman, User-Centered System Design, pp. 87-124
• BAS-3: Sharp, Interaction Design Chapter 6, Part1 Part2.

Design

• DES-1: Mullet and Sano, Elegance and Simplicity, in Designing Visual Interfaces, Chapter 2, pp. 17-49
• DES-2: Mullet and Sano, Organization and Visual Structure, in Designing Visual Interfaces, Chapter 4, pp. 89-130
• DES-3: Dix et al., Design Rules, in Human-Computer Interaction, Chapter 7, pp. 258-288
• DES-4: Alan Cooper, The Myth of Metaphor

Human Abilities and Cognition

• COG-1: Yvonne Waern, Basics of Cognition, in Cognitive Aspects of Computer Supported Tasks, Chapter 2, pp. 10-30

Technologies

• PHY-1: Ken Hinckley, Input Technologies and Techniques, in Jacko and Sears, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Chapter 7, pp. 151-168

Prototyping

• PRO-1: Marc Rettig, Prototyping for Tiny Fingers, in Communications of the ACM, Volume 37,  Issue 4  (April 1994), Pages 21-27.
  
• PRO-2: Carolyn Snyder, Making a Paper Prototype, in Paper Prototyping, Chapter 4 (available from Books 24x7)
• PRO-3: Carolyn Snyder, Task Design, in Paper Prototyping, Chapter 6 (available from Books 24x7)
• PRO-4: Gayle Curtis and Laurie Vertelney, Storyboards and Sketch Prototypes for Rapid Interface Visualization , CHI 1990 Tutorial

Evaluation

• EVA-1: Jakob Nielsen, How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation
• EVA-2: Joseph Dumas, User-Based Evaluations, in Jacko and Sears, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Chapter 56, pp. 1093-1117

Extra

• WEB-1: Steve Krug, How We Really Use the Web, in Don't Make Me Think, Chapter 2, pp. 20-29
• EMO-1: Don Norman, Emotional Machines, in Emotional Design, Chapter 6, pp. 161-194

Revelant Links

Interface Hall of Shame
Interface Hall of Fame
Georgia Tech HCC Library
Bad Design
Nielsen's USEIT
Denim Software with Tutorial
Flash Tutorial

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