CMSC 434/828S - Fall 2003
Prof Guimbretiere

Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction


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Topic

Reading

HW & Project

Week 1

 

 

 

Sep 2

Introduction

 

 

Sep 4

Design of Everyday Things

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

 HW0

Week 2

 

 

 

Sep 9

History

The Xerox Star system (handout), The computer for the 21st century (handout)

 

Sep 11

Design 

The designer's stance (handout)
Book: Bringing Design to Software
By Terry Winograd

 Declare topic

Week 3

 

 

 

 Sep 16

User Centered Design

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

 

Sep 18

Canelled (due to Hurricane Isabel)

 

 

Week 4

 

 

 

 Sep 23

Expressing your ideas (Sketching and Story boarding)

Ch4. Designing the Palm Pilot
Book: Information Appliances and beyond

 HW1

Sep 25

Low fidelity prototyping

Ch2. The Human Information Processor
Book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction

 

Week 5

 

 

 

 Sep 30

The Human Information Processor

 

 HW2
Goals vs. Tasks (ppt,pdf)

Oct 2

Group presentation

 

Project 1:
User Goals (all),
Bibliography (828S only) 

Week 6

 

 

 

 Oct 7

The Human Information Processor

 

 

Oct 9

High level Theories 

Ch 2

 

Week 7

 

 

 

 Oct 14

Conceptual Models

Ch 3: Cognitive engineering
and
Ch 5: Direct Manipulation Interfaces
Book:
User Centered System Design
by Donald Norman and Stephan Draper

 HW3

Oct 16

Usability Heuristics I

Ch 4, Evaluating the design without users
Book: 
Task-Centered User Interface Design
A Practical Introduction

 

Week 8

 

 

 

 Oct 21

Usability Heuristics II 

Ch 11, 13

 

Oct 23

Group presentation

Ch9

Project 2:
Prototype (all),
Contributions (828s only)

Week 9

 

 

 

 Oct 28

Computer technology

Ch 15: There's more to interaction than meets the eye (handout),
Book: User Centered System Design
by Donald Norman and Stephan Draper

 HW4

Oct 30

Graphics design

Ch4: Organization and visual structure 
Book: Design Visual Interfaces
By Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano (handout)

 

Week 10

 

 

 

 Nov 4

User Interface Toolkit
By Ben Bederson

 

 HW5

Nov 6

Midterm

 

 

Week 11

 

 

 

 Nov 11

Visual Presentation
(Colored Version)

Ch 7, 
Ch1. Escaping Flatland (handout)
Book: Envisioning Information
By: Edward Tufte.

 

Nov 13

Group presentation

 

Project 3:
Implementation (all)
,Experimental design (8282s only)

Week 12

 

 

 

 Nov 18

Evaluation

Ch 4
and
"Setting the Stage for Discovery"
Book: Science And Its Ways Of Knowing
By John Hatton and Paul Plouffe

 

Nov 20

Qualitative Evaluation

Ch 6: Universal Tools: Recruiting and Interviewing (only pages 117~127)
and
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

 

Week 13

 

 

 

Nov 25 

Quantitative Evaluation

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.

 HW6

Nov 27

 Thanksgiving holiday

 

 

Week 14

 

 

 

 Dec 2

Quantitative Evaluation (cntd)


 

Dec 4

Group presentation

 

Project 4:
Qualitative user study (all), Quantitative user study (828s)

Week 15

 

 

 

 Dec 9

Technology life cycle

Ch2. Growing Up: Moving from Technology-Centered to Human-Centered Products
Book: The invisible computer
By Donald Norman

 Final report (828s only)
HW7

Dec 11

Project fair