CMSC 838G - Spring 2003
Prof Guimbretiere

Advanced usability: People, paper and computer


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Approximate schedule:

 

Topic

Reading

Project

Week 1

 

 

 

Jan 28

Introduction

 

 

Jan 30

Affordances of paper

MPO: chap 1 and chap 2

 

Week 2

 

 

 

Feb 4

Paper in knowledge work

MPO: chap 3 and chap 4

 

Feb 6

Ethnographic examples

MPO: chap 5

 

Week 3

 

 

 

Feb 11

New technologies

MPO: chap 6 and chap 7

 

Feb 13

Presentations

 

 Proposal

Week 4

 

 

 

Feb 18

Canceled

 

 

Feb 20

New technologies (papers review)

 DUMMBO, Dynomite, Pen Computing: Challenges and Applications, Sketch Recognizers, SATIN

 

Week 5

 

 

 

Feb 25

Notes, Annotations (papers review)

 

 

Feb 27

Notes, Paper as input mechanism (papers review)  

 

Week 6

 

 

 

Mar 4

Mixed paper computer interfaces (papers review)

 

 

Mar 6

Project presentations: 
ATC study,
Annotations for the ICDL,
Annotations management for Acrobat,
CrossEd,
Reading layout study,
Tangible book interface.

 

Bibliography review

Week 7

 

 

 

Mar 11

Scientific method I

"The So-called scientific method" (Henry H. Bauer)
"Setting the stage for discovery" (R. S. Root-Bernstein)
DPE: chap 1

 

Mar 13

Scientific method II, questions

 DPE: chap 2 and chap 3

 

Week 8

 

 

 

Mar 18

Experiment design I, questions

DPE: chap 4 and chap 5

 

Mar 20

Experiment design II

DPE: chap 7 and chap 8

 

Week 9

 

 

 

Mar 25

 

 

 

Mar 27

 

 

 

Week 10

 

 

 

Apr 1

Experiment design III

DPE: chap 9 and chap 10  

 

Apr 3

Project presentations:
ATC study,
Annotations for the ICDL,
Annotations management for Acrobat,
CrossEd,
Reading layout study,
Tangible book interface.

 

Methods and design 

Week 11 (CHI)

 

 

 

Apr 8

 

   

 

Apr 10

 

 

Week 12

 

 

 

Apr 15

Examples from the literature 

Reading from CHI 2003

 

Apr 17

Interpreting results I

 DPE: chap 11, DPE: chap 12

 

Week 13

 

 

 

Apr 22

Interpreting results II

Chap 16 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen (handout)
Quantitative analysis of scrolling techniques (Hinckley et al. CHI’02)

 

Apr 24

Project presentations

 

Preliminary findings

Week 14

 

 

 

Apr 29

 

 

 

May 1

 

 

First draft

Week 15

 

 

 

May 6

 

 

 

May 8

 

 

 

Week 16

 

 

 

May 13

Project presentations

Papers:
ATC study,
Annotations for the ICDL,
Annotations management for Acrobat,
CrossEd,
Reading layout study,
Tangible book interface.

 

Final presentation 

May 15

  

 

 


May XX


Final exam (10:30-12:30)





 

 

 

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