There are a few books on reserve at the Mathematical Sciences Library that you may find useful during the course: Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant; Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen; The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman; Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman; Interaction Design by Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp; Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler.

December 15: Final Exam. 9:45 AM, 213 MacLean Hall.

December 8: Presentations by Political Compass and Mussels Exhibit groups

December 6: Presentations by Media player groups (four member group first followed by five member group).

December 4: Information visualization. Slides available on ICON.

Due: P3

Read: n/a

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P3, 12/4

December 4: Design for older adults. Slides available on ICON.

Due: P3

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P3, 12/4

December 1: Design for children. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Due dates: P3, 12/4

November 27, 29, December 1: Usability for the web. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P3, 12/4

November 27: Hall of fame/shame by Ritesh Nadhani. See slides

November 15: Hall of fame/shame by Chris Timko. See slides

November 13, 15, 17: Universal principles of design. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P3, 12/4

Research Topics in HCI. 22c.296.001, Spring 07. See slides

November 10: Hall of fame/shame by Thomas Hansen. See slides

November 6, 8, 10, 13: Cognition. Slides available on ICON.

Due: P2, 11/6

Read: n/a

Assigned: P3, 11/6

Due dates: P2, 11/6

November 8: Hall of fame/shame by Chris Rothfuss. See slides

November 3: Fitts' Law activity See slides

November 3: Hall of fame/shame by Don Dunbar. See slides

November 1, 3, 6: Interaction devices. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

Read: Ch. 9

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P2, 11/6

October 27: Hall of fame/shame by Rebecca Longmuir. See slides

October 25, 27, 30: Evaluation. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

Read: Ch. 4

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P2, 11/6

October 25: Hall of fame/shame by Antwon Simmons. See slides

October 20, 23: Command languages. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

Read: Ch. 8

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P2, 11/6

October 18: Midterm

October 13, 16: Menus, forms and dialog boxes. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

Read: Ch. 7

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P2, 11/6

October 13: Hall of fame/shame by Uday Verma. See slides

October 11: Hall of fame/shame by Puja Das. See slides

October 9, 11: Direct manipulation. Slides available on ICON.

Due: P1, 10/9

Read: Ch. 6

Assigned: P2, 11/6

Due dates: P1, 10/9

October 6: Hall of fame/shame by Ju Li Khaw. See slides

October 4: Hall of fame/shame by Aditya R. Sharma. See slides

October 2, 4, 6: GUI guidelines, principles and theories. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

Read: Ch. 2

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 27: Hall of fame/shame by Andrew Pelzer. See slides

September 27, 29: User-centered design. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

Read: 3.5-3.6

Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 25: Hall of fame/shame by Anish Padiyara. See slides

September 25: Brainstorming. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 22: High-fidelity prototyping. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 22: Hall of fame/shame by Travis Pogmore. See slides

September 20: Competitive assessments, low-fidelity prototyping. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 20: Hall of fame/shame by Olga Garcia. See slides

September 18: Conceptual models. Slides available on ICON.

Due: n/a

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 15: Hall of fame/shame by Rajeev V. Penmatsa. See slides

September 15: Observation skills. See slides, Print slides

Due: n/a

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Assigned: n/a

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 13: Hall of fame/shame by Justin Regenwether. See slides

September 11, 13: Identifying needs and establishing requirements. See slides, Print slides

Due: HW2, 9/11

Read: n/a

Assigned: P1

Due dates: P1, 10/9

September 8: Invited lecture. Dr. Doug Jones on voting systems.

September 1, 6: Interaction design process. See slides, Print slides

Due: HW1

Read: n/a

Assigned: HW2

Due dates: HW1, 9/1

September 1: Ecohydraulics in the Mississippi river. See slides

August 30: Group project options. See slides, Print slides

August 30: Hall of Fame/Shame See slides, Print slides

August 25: Usability principles. See slides, Print slides

Due: n/a

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Assigned: HW1

Due dates: HW1, 9/1

August 23: HCI history. Usability and user experience goals. See slides, Print slides

Due: n/a

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August 21: Introduction to class. See slides, Print slides

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