Course Calendar, Spring 2009

Lec # Date Topic Reading Assignment
(Due next time)
Project
1 1/13 Introduction
Read Wigdor and Balakrishnan, Tilt Text
    Evaluate structure and content
    Identify design principles
Experiment 6: Table for sums of powers of 2
Read John Canny on the future of HCI

2 1/20 HCI research Wigdor and
    Balakrishnan
Canny
Read Bunt, Conati and McGrenere, Adaptive Support
    Evaluate structure and content
Choose research topic and team (Due noon Monday)
3 1/27 Notations for actions
GOMS models; interface widgets
Research project
Bunt et al To hand in:
Perform a GOMS analysis of constructing the table of sums of powers of 2
To hand in:
Hypotheses,
Independent and dependent variables
IRB Form draft;
Consent form draft;
Bibliography from EndNote
4 2/3 GUEPs;
Cognitive dimensions

Read Edge and Blackwell, Cognitive Dimensions Tradeoffs in Tangible User Interface Design Short presentation on research project
Revise IRB form as necessary
Add to bibliography
5 2/10 Research project presentations
Task analysis
iPod Example
Edge and Blackwell To hand in: analysis of your two buttons Continue working on experimental material
Start writing background sections
6 2/17 Table creation (reprise)
Tangible User Interfaces

Read Thomas Claburn on perfect phones
Due next time: Complete experimental materials and IRB form

7 2/24 Interface design: the Perfect Phone
Laptop tracking
Paper presentation guidelines
Claburn
Young
Choose presentation topic and paper by Monday, 3/9
Choose top three perfect phone tasks by Monday, 3/9


3/3 Spring Break
8 3/10 Interface design team meetings
Submit preliminary design report

Read Dix, Upside-Down A's and Algorithms Progress Report 1
9 3/17 Perfect phone interface presentations
Interface evaluation: metrics and scoring
Case Studies: websites; history systems

Read Way and Barner, Automatic visual to tactile translation

10 3/24 Dix on formal models
The PIE Model
Web form design

Presenter: Prepare presentation following guidelines
Listener: Prepare two probing questions for each of two papers
Progress Report 2
11 3/31 Paper Presentations: Intelligent User Interfaces
Discussion



12 4/7 Paper Presentations: Computer Supported Collaborative Work
Discussion
Web form design (continued)


First Draft, Sections 1 and 2
13 4/14 Paper Presentations: Participatory Design
Interface evaluation


First Draft, Sections 3, 4, and 5
14 4/21

15 4/28 Research Presentations

Final written report

5/5 Final Exam

Poster abstract and design