CMSC 198G - Spring 2008
Prof Guimbretiere

Designing Human-Computer Interaction

Projects topics

Each group might pick one of the following topic described bellow for its class projects. You may choose from one of these project:

• A new user interface for car navigation system;

• Flight reservation system;

• New interface for the iPod shuttle;

• An eBook reader targeted for the elderly;

• A new user interface for high end copy machines;

• MP3 player;

• A kiosk to help people pick a movie at Blockbuster;

• Your own project

Teams

You will work with 2-3 others from this course. The idea of working with others is to get alternate design ideas, alternate ways of looking at things, and more breadth at eliciting and interpreting evaluations. It is your responsibility to find team members that you can work with.

Note that if this were being done "for real", the best team would have people from diverse backgrounds, which will give the team different perspectives on the problem. For example, a real team could comprise a project manager, a marketing person, a programmer, a representative end user, and/or a help desk person who regularly deals with end users.  To this end, I encourage you to build teams with people with different strengths.  Picking a team with the 4 best programmers will not generate the best results.