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Week 1:
Assignment: Think about project and project team
Jan 19: Principles of HCI; Working in teams
Assignment: Project Proposal assigned
Reading: Pew (Introduction to HCI)
Week 2:
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 1 - 4, Sullivan
Jan 26: Finish Project Selection, Begin User-Centered Design Reading: Nielsen, Ch. 7, Gomoll
Week 3:
Reading: Cooper Ch 9-10, Holtzblatt
Assignment: Project Proposal due
Assignment: Personas, Task Analysis assigned
Feb 2: Continue User-Centered Design; Task Analysis
Reading: Cooper Ch 11, Newman & Landay
Week 4:
Reading: Norman, Ch 1 & 2.
Optional Reading:
Links on how to write surveys
Qualities of a good survey question
Developing a questionnaire
How to conduct an interview
Feb 9: Affordances, Mappings
Reading: Norman, Ch 3 & 4. Optional additional Norman reading
Week 5:
Reading: Norman Ch. 5, Cooper (About Face, Ch 28), Raskin Ch 2., Bloopers Ch 5 (pp. 288-304)
Assignment: Personas, Task Analysis due
Assignment: Scenarios, Comparative Analysis, and Initial Design assigned
Feb 16: Guest Lecture: Rashmi Sinha on Card Sorting and MindCanvas
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 5, Bloopers Ch 1 & 2
Week 6:
Assignment: Scenarios and Initial Design due
Assignment: Low-fi Prototype and Test assigned
Feb 23: Low-fi prototyping and testing
Reading: Rettig, Beaudouin-Lafon, Jesse James Garrett Interaction charts
Assignment: Individual Assignment assigned
Week 7:
Reading: Bloopers Ch 5 (pp. 248-288)
Mar 2: Guest Lecture: Maggie Law on Prototyping
Excel file with examples
Article by Bill Buxton on Prototyping from Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Usage-Centered Design, Portsmouth, 2003.
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 3
Week 8:
Mar 9: Formal Usability Testing
Assignment: Low-fi Prototype and Test due
Assignment: First Interactive Prototype assigned
Reading: Robson, Kurtenbach et al. '93 and '94.
Week 9:
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 6, Practice Midterm
Optional Reading: Designing the e-commerce User Experience for China Limin Fu, Jianming Dong, Kelly Braun, proceedings of HCII 2005. doc
Mar 16: Finish Formal Usability Testing
Reading: Jeffries et al., Robson
Week 10:
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 6, 7
Assignment: Individual Assignment due
Mar 23: Midterm
--Spring Recess (Mar 27-31)--
Week 11:
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 6
Apr 6: Class Presentations
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 7
Assignment: First Interactive Prototype due
Assignment: Project Heuristic Evaluation assigned
Week 12:
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 4
Assignment: Project Heuristic Evaluation due
Assignment: Second Interactive Prototype assigned
Apr 13: In-class project problem solving
Week 13:
Reading: Hochstein
Apr 20: CSCW (Lecture by Andrew Fiore)
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Second Interactive Prototype due
Assignment: Pilot Usability Study assigned
Week 14:
Apr 27: In-class work (Marti at CHI)
Week 15:
Assignment: Pilot Usability Study due
Assignment: Third Interactive Prototype (Final Writeup) assigned
May 4: Class Project Presentations
Week 16:
May 9: CHI Highlights
May 11: (9am)