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Reading
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Project & HW
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Week 1
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Aug 31
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Introduction
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Sep 2
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An historical perspective
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The NLS demo
(look at the beginning of the demo)
The Xerox Star system (handout),
Recommended:
Sketchpad (Ivan Sutherland thesis) |
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Week 2
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Sep 7
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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")
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Sep 9
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Gathering data
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DPE: Chap 1, 2 |
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Week 3
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Sep 14
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Asking the right question |
Earth is spherical (p < 0.05): alternative
methods of statistical inference (Vicente et al)
DPE: Chap 3
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Sep 16
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Finding what has been done
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DPE: Chap 6
EdgeWrite: A Stylus-Based
Text Entry Method Designed for High Accuracy and Stability of Motion,
Wobbrock et al. UIST'03. |
Proposal
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Week 4
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Sep 21
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Being Fair |
DPE: Chap 4, 5
The Stanford prison experiment
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Sep 23
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Human perception
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HMTF: Chap 1, 2
Chap 1 of Envisioning Information (Tufte, On reserve at the CS library) |
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Week 5
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Sep 28
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Choosing variables |
DPE: chap 7, 8
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Sep 30
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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
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Week 6
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Oct 5
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Experimental design |
DPE: Chap 9, 11
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Oct 7
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Student presentations
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Bibliography review
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Week 7
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Oct 12
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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)
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Ethnography in HCI (Todd Rose)
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Oct 14
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High level tasks
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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)) |
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Week 8
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Oct 19
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Interpreting results I |
DPE: Chap 12
Chap 14 (A, B) & 15 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen (handout)
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Oct 21
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Notational Systems
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HMTF: Chap 5 |
HW2
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Week 9 |
UIST
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Oct 26 |
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Oct 28 |
Student presentations |
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Methods and design
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Week 10
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Nov 2
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Interpreting results II |
Chap 16 & 17 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen (handout)
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Nov 4
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User's Mental models
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HMTF: Chap 6
Chap 5 of User Centered System Design by Norman et al. eds. |
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Week 11
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Nov 9
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At work |
HMTF: Chap 13
Chap 1 of Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins
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Nov 11
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Exploring and Finding Information
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HMTF: Chap 7
Chap 28 of The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Information
Visualization by Stuart Card. |
HW3
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Week 12
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Nov 16
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Distributed Cognition |
HMTF: Chap 8
How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds, E. Hutchins, Cognitive Science 19,
(265 - 288) |
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Nov 18
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Student presentation
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Preliminary findings
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Week 13
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Nov 23
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Cognitive Work Analysis |
HMTF: Chap 9
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Nov 25
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Thanksgiving
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Week 14
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Nov 30
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Electronically mediated Communication |
HMTF: Chap 10
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Draft for review.
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Dec 2
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Review discussion
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HW
4: paper review
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Week 15
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Dec 7
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Activity Theory |
HMTH: Chap 11
The architecture and
implementation of CPN2000, a post-WIMP graphical application
(Beaudouin-Lafon et al., UIST'00)
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Dec 9
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Student presentation
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Final report
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Dec 13
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Final exam
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Take home exam from 11:00am
on 13/12/04 to 11:00am on 14/12/04.
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