Course Outline
Professor : Dr. Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu
Class hours: Mon &
Wednes 11am -
12:15pm Room:
Engineering 3140,
Learning Theater
Office hours: Mon & Wednes
10am - 11am Room:
AVW 3177 Phone:
301-405-2680
Teaching Assistant: Jinwook
Seo jinwook@cs.umd.edu
Room: AVW
4122
Office
Hours : Mon & Friday 2pm - 4pm Room :
AVW 4122
Books:
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B. Shneiderman, Designing
the User Interface, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley,
(1998)
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Recommended to review statistics: R. Runyon & A.
Haber, Fundamentals of Behavioral
Statistics, 8th Edition, McGraw-Hill (1996).
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Recommended to learn Visual Basic: Wright, P., Beginning
Visual Basic, Wrox Press, Chicago.
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.
Homework:
Term
Projects:
Controlled experiment with human subjects on a
design issue (teams of 2 - 4 people).
See previous projects at
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE97
SHORE98 SHORE99
SHORE2000
Final Grade:
Class
Schedule :
|
Week
|
Topic |
Chapter
|
Project
|
Homework
|
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1/29
|
Introduction, Theories
|
1, 2
|
|
|
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2/5
|
Managing Design
|
3
|
|
Exp't
Critique (2/7)
|
|
2/12
|
Evaluation & Tools
|
4, 5
|
Proposal (2/14)
|
|
|
2/19
|
Direct Manipulation
|
6
|
|
VB
1 (2/21)
|
|
2/26
|
Menus & Forms
|
7
|
Materials (2/28)
|
Exam 1-7 (3/7)
|
|
3/5
|
Command & Nat Langs
|
8
|
References (3/7)
|
VB 2 (3/12)
|
|
3/12
|
Interaction & Response
|
9, 10
|
Pilot Results (3/14)
|
|
|
3/19
|
----Spring Break --------
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3/26
|
Style/Manuals & Help
|
11, 12
|
Statistics (3/28)
|
|
|
4/2
|
Multiple Windows
|
13
|
|
Exam
8-12 (4/4)
|
|
4/9
|
CSCW
|
14
|
Raw Data (4/9)
|
VB 3 (4/11)
|
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4/16
|
Info Search
|
15
|
Draft Intro(4/16)
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Expert review (4/18)
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4/23
|
Web
|
16
|
|
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4/30
|
Social Impact
|
After
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Final Project due (5/2)
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Comments (5/4)
|
|
5/7
|
Reports
|
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Revision
(5/7)
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5/14
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Reports
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