CMSC 828F - Spring 2004
Prof Guimbretière

Advanced Introduction to HCI


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Tentative schedule:

 

Topic

Reading

Project & HW

Week 1

 

 

 

Aug 31

Introduction

 

 

Sep 2

An historical perspective

The NLS demo (look at the beginning of the demo)
The Xerox Star system (handout),

Recommended:
Sketchpad (Ivan Sutherland thesis)

 

Week 2

 

 

 

Sep 7

Scientific method

"The So-called scientific method" (Henry H. Bauer, in "Science and its ways of knowing")
"Setting the stage for discovery" (R. S. Root-Bernstein, in "Science and its ways of knowing")

 

Sep 9

Gathering data

DPE: Chap 1, 2

 

Week 3

 

 

 

Sep 14

Asking the right question

Earth is spherical (p < 0.05): alternative methods of statistical inference (Vicente et al)
DPE: Chap 3

 

Sep 16

Finding what has been done

DPE: Chap 6
EdgeWrite: A Stylus-Based Text Entry Method Designed for High Accuracy and Stability of Motion, Wobbrock et al. UIST'03.

 Proposal

Week 4

 

 

 

Sep 21

Being Fair

DPE: Chap 4, 5
The Stanford prison experiment

 

Sep 23

Human perception

HMTF: Chap 1, 2
Chap 1 of Envisioning Information (Tufte, On reserve at the CS library)

 

Week 5

 

 

 

Sep 28

Choosing variables DPE: chap 7, 8
 

 

Sep 30

Motor behavior HMTF: Chap 3
Chap 2 of The psychology of Human-Computer Interaction: "The Human Information-Processor" (Card et al.)

Recommended:
A morphological analysis of the design space of input devices (Card et al. ToCHI 9(2))Asymmetric Division of Labor in Human Skilled Bimanual Action: The Kinematic Chain as a Model (Yves Guiard, Journal of Motor Behavior 19(4))

 HW1

Week 6

 

 

 

Oct 5

Experimental design

DPE: Chap 9, 11

 

Oct 7

Student presentations

 

Bibliography review

Week 7

 

 

 

Oct 12

Non-Experimental design

DPE: Chap 10

Recommended:
"
Observing the user experience" by Mike Kuniavsky. (on reserve at the CS library)
"Contextual design" by Beyer and Holtzblatt. (on reserve at the CS library)

Ethnography in HCI (Todd Rose)

Oct 14

High level tasks

HMTF: Chap 4
Chap 8 of The psychology of Human-Computer Interaction: "The Keystroke-Level Model" (Card et al.)
Details of command-language keystrokes (Allen et al. ToCHI 1(2))

 

Week 8

 

 

 

Oct 19

Interpreting results I

DPE: Chap 12
Chap 14 (A, B) & 15 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen (handout)

 

Oct 21

Notational Systems

HMTF: Chap 5

 HW2

Week 9

UIST

Oct 26
Oct 28 Student presentations  

Methods and design 

Week 10

 

 

 

Nov 2

Interpreting results II

Chap 16 & 17 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen (handout)

 

Nov 4

User's Mental models

HMTF: Chap 6
Chap 5 of User Centered System Design by Norman et al. eds.

 

Week 11

 

 

 

Nov 9

At work

HMTF: Chap 13
Chap 1 of Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins

 

Nov 11

Exploring and Finding Information

HMTF: Chap 7
Chap 28 of The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Information Visualization by Stuart Card.

 HW3

Week 12

 

 

 

Nov 16

Distributed Cognition

HMTF: Chap 8
How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds, E. Hutchins, Cognitive Science 19, (265 - 288)

 

Nov 18

Student presentation

 

 Preliminary findings

Week 13

 

 

 

Nov 23

Cognitive Work Analysis

HMTF: Chap 9
 

 

Nov 25

  Thanksgiving

Week 14

 

 

 

Nov 30

Electronically mediated Communication

HMTF: Chap 10
 

 Draft for review. 

Dec 2

Review discussion

 

HW 4: paper review

Week 15

 

 

 

Dec 7

Activity Theory

HMTH: Chap 11
The architecture and implementation of CPN2000, a post-WIMP graphical application (Beaudouin-Lafon et al., UIST'00)

 

Dec 9

Student presentation

 

 Final report

Dec 13

Final exam

Take home exam from 11:00am on 13/12/04 to 11:00am on 14/12/04.



 

 

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