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Topic
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Reading
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HW & Project
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Week 1
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Sep 2
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Introduction
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Sep 4
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Design of
Everyday Things
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Ch 1. The Psychopathology of
everyday things (handout),
Book: Design Everyday Things
By Donald Norman.
The perfect brainstorm (handout),
Book: The Art of Innovation,
By Tom Kelley
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HW0
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Week 2
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Sep 9
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History
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The Xerox Star system (handout),
The computer for the 21st century (handout)
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Sep 11
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Design
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The designer's stance (handout)
Book: Bringing Design to Software
By Terry Winograd
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Declare topic
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Week 3
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Sep 16
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User
Centered Design
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Ch 3
Ch 4. Understanding users: Qualitative Research
Ch5. Modeling Users: Personas and Goals
Book: About Face 2.0
By Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
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Sep 18
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Canelled (due to Hurricane Isabel)
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Week 4
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Sep 23
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Expressing your ideas
(Sketching and Story boarding)
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Ch4. Designing the Palm
Pilot
Book: Information Appliances and beyond
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HW1
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Sep 25
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Low fidelity
prototyping
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Ch2. The Human Information Processor
Book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
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Week 5
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Sep 30
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The Human
Information Processor
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HW2
Goals vs. Tasks (ppt,pdf)
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Oct 2
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Group presentation
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Project 1:
User Goals (all),
Bibliography
(828S only)
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Week 6
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Oct 7
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The Human Information
Processor
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Oct 9
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High level Theories
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Ch 2
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Week 7
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Oct 14
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Conceptual
Models
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Ch 3: Cognitive engineering
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Ch 5: Direct Manipulation Interfaces
Book:
User Centered System Design
by Donald Norman and Stephan Draper
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HW3
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Oct 16
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Usability Heuristics I
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Ch 4, Evaluating the design
without users
Book:
Task-Centered User Interface Design
A Practical
Introduction
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Week 8
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Oct 21
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Usability
Heuristics II
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Ch 11, 13
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Oct 23
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Group presentation
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Ch9
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Project 2:
Prototype (all),
Contributions
(828s only)
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Week 9
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Oct 28
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Computer technology
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Ch 15: There's more to interaction
than meets the eye (handout),
Book: User Centered System Design
by Donald Norman and Stephan Draper
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HW4
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Oct 30
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Graphics
design
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Ch4: Organization and visual
structure
Book: Design Visual Interfaces
By Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano (handout)
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Week 10
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Nov 4
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User Interface Toolkit
By Ben Bederson
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HW5
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Nov 6
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Midterm
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Week 11
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Nov 11
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Visual Presentation
(Colored Version)
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Ch 7,
Ch1. Escaping Flatland (handout)
Book: Envisioning Information
By: Edward Tufte.
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Nov 13
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Group presentation
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Project 3:
Implementation (all),Experimental design
(8282s only)
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Week 12
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Nov 18
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Evaluation
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Ch 4
and
"Setting the Stage for Discovery"
Book: Science And Its Ways Of Knowing
By John Hatton and Paul Plouffe
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Nov 20
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Qualitative Evaluation
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Ch 6: Universal Tools: Recruiting
and Interviewing (only pages 117~127)
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Ch 10: Usability Tests
Book: Observing The User Experience
By Mike Kuniavsky
Ch 8: Introduction to Usability Test Facilitation
Book: Paper Prototyping
By: Carolyn Snyder
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Week 13
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Nov 25
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Quantitative
Evaluation
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1) Consent form,
2) Survey,
3)
Quantitative analysis of scrolling techniques
By Ken Hincley, Edward Cutrell, Steve Bathiche and Tim
Muss,
Published in SIGCHI 2002.
Note: In order to print this
paper, you have to be connected through a UMD machine.
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HW6
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Nov 27
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Thanksgiving
holiday
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Week 14
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Dec 2
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Quantitative Evaluation (cntd)
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Dec 4
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Group presentation
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Project 4:
Qualitative user study
(all), Quantitative
user study (828s)
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Week 15
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Dec 9
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Technology life cycle |
Ch2.
Growing Up: Moving from Technology-Centered to Human-Centered Products
Book: The invisible
computer
By Donald Norman
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Final report (828s only)
HW7
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Dec 11
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Project fair
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