Professor: Dr. Ben Shneiderman
Teaching Assistant: Georg Apitz
Personal Health and Wellness Projects
Fall 2005During the Fall 2005 semester, students in CMSC 434 : Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (Prof. Ben Shneiderman) undertook 13 team projects (3-5 students) devoted to design of personal health and wellness technologies. These included mobile devices, home appliances, desktop applications, and web-based databases. Background literature in academic journals and product descriptions (often on the web) informed these designs. Students went from low-fidelity to high-fidelity prototypes, then conducted a usability study with 4 to 9 participants before making their final improvements. These projects are meant to inspire others to refine and advance these device prototypes.
DiabetesCommunity service support
ICDL books
Help for Older Adults
Healthy Nutrition
Medical Support Tools
Topics: Human factors issues in the development of software, use of database systems,
and design of user interfaces for interactive systems. Science base
(theories, models, usability studies, and controlled experimentation), and software engineering with user interface development environments.
Issues include: command languages, menus, forms, and direct manipulation, graphical user interfaces, computer supported cooperative work,
information search and visualization, World Wide Web design, input/output devices, and display design.
Term: Fall 2005
class hours: Tues & Thurs 9:30am - 10:45am Room: CSIC 3117
Professor: Dr. Ben Shneiderman
email: ben [AT] cs.umd.edu Phone: 301-405-2680
office hours: Tues & Thurs 11am - noon Room: AVW 3177
Teaching Assistant: Georg Apitz
email: geapi-434 [AT] cs.umd.edu
office hours: Tues & Thurs 2pm - 3pm Room: AVW 3457
Books: B. Shneiderman & C. Plaisant, Designing the User Interface, 4th Ed., Addison-Wesley, (2004) ISBN 0-321-19786-0 book webpage