IS 4300: Human-Computer Interaction
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Schedule
Course subject content is tentative and may change during the semester.
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Assignments |
| Start |
Due |
| 1 |
Jan 7 |
Introduction to the class and HCI |
H1, T1, R1 |
|
| Jan 10 |
User Centered design.
|
H2, R2 |
R1 |
| 2 |
Jan 14 |
Usability Principles, Team project brainstorming. |
|
H1, R2 |
| Jan 17 |
Usability Methods, Observational studies, Prototyping technologies. |
R3 |
H2 |
| 3 |
Jan 24 |
Task analysis, use cases, and scenarios. [no slides from this class.] |
T2, R4, H3 |
T1, R3 |
| 4 |
Jan 28 |
More on task analysis and scenarios.
|
T3, H4 |
H3, R4 |
| Jan 31 |
Building wireframes. |
R5 |
T2 |
| 5 |
Feb 4 |
Conceptual and Interaction Design. |
|
R5 |
| Feb 7 |
Paper Prototyping |
T4, R6 |
T3 |
| 6 |
Feb 11 |
Design guidelines. Evaluation Overview.
|
|
H4, R6 |
| Feb 14 |
Accessibility, evaluation, storyboards.
Sample user briefing.
|
T5, R7 |
|
| 7 |
Feb 18 |
No Class. |
|
T4 |
| Feb 21 |
In class paper prototyping rehearsal. Heuristic evaluation.
|
T6 |
T5A, R7 |
| 8 |
Feb 25 |
Collecting and Analyzing Surveys |
|
|
| Feb 28 |
Likert scales, stats and graphs. |
R9 |
T5B |
| . |
Mar 4-9 |
Spring Break | | |
9 |
Mar 11 |
Web development videos (no slides) |
T7 |
|
| Mar 14 |
User Experience. |
H5 |
T6, R9 |
| 10 |
Mar 18 |
Reviewing your projects (no slides) |
|
H5 |
| Mar 21 |
Communicating Results.
|
T8 |
T7 |
| 11 |
Mar 25 |
Summarizing data quantitatively. |
|
|
| Mar 28 |
HCI for Activities in Social Networks.
|
R12 |
|
| 12 |
Apr 1 |
Learning in Social Games. |
T9 |
T8, R12 |
| Apr 4 |
Designing for Mobile, App inventor.
|
|
|
| 13 |
Apr 8
Apr 11 |
Final project presentations |
|
T9A |