unit I. Design Principles | ||
mon jan 30 | lecture |
Course introduction
reading:
The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman,Ch 1, The Psychopathology of Everyday Things |
wed feb 1 | lab | Interactive web programming: HTML, CSS, Javascript |
mon feb 6 | lecture |
Guidelines, principles and theories
reading:
Designing the User Interface, by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant,Ch 2, Guidelines, Principles, and Theories |
wed feb 8 | lab |
Interactive web programming: HTML5 part 1
reading:
Paper prototyping, by Carolyn Snyder.
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mon feb 13 | HOLIDAY | no class |
wed feb 15 | lab | Interactive web programming: HTML5 part 2 |
mon feb 20 | HOLIDAY | no class |
unit II. Evaluating Interfaces | ||
tue feb 21 | lecture | CUNY Monday
Evaluation Techniques
reading:
Human-Computer Interaction,
by Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd and Russell Beale,Ch 9, Evaluation Techniques |
wed feb 22 | lab | Heuristic Evaluation |
mon feb 27 | lecture |
User Study
reading:
Web Usability: A user-centered design approach,
by Jonathan Lazar,Ch 9, Usability testing |
wed feb 29 | lab |
DIY (do it yourself) User Study
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unit III. Understanding Users | ||
mon mar 5 | lecture | Mobile App Programming
reading:
Designing Interfaces, by Jenifer Tidwell,Ch 1, What users do |
wed mar 7 | lab | Introduction to Android Programming |
mon mar 12 | lecture | Human activities: What Users do
reading:
Leonardo's Laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies,
by Ben Shneiderman,Ch 5, Understanding human activities and relationships |
wed mar 14 | lab | Android Layouts and Views |
mon mar 19 | exam! | MIDTERM EXAM |
wed mar 21 | lab |
Android Notepad Application
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unit IV. Devices | ||
mon mar 26 | lecture |
Multisensory and Multimedia Interfaces
reading:
---Designing Interactions,by Bill Moggridge,Ch 8, Multisensory and multimedia ---Organic User Interfaces: Designing Computers in Any Way, Shape, or Form, by David Holmand and Roel Vertegaal, Communications of the ACM, volume 51, number 6, June 2008. ---The Cave: Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment, by Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Robert V. Kenyon and John C. Hart, Communications of the ACM, volume 35, number 6, June 1992. |
wed mar 28 | lab | Android Graphics part 1
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mon apr 2 | lecture |
Multimodal Interfaces
reading:
---Multimodal interfaces that flex, adapt, and persist,by Sharon Oviatt, Trevor Darrell, Myron Flickner, Communications of the ACM, volume 47, number 1, January 2004. ---Guidelines for multimodal user interface design, by Leah M. Reeves, Jennifer Lai, James A. Larson, Sharon Oviatt, T. S. Balaji, Stéphanie Buisine, Penny Collings, Phil Cohen, Ben Kraal, Jean-Claude Martin, Michael McTear, TV Raman, Kay M. Stanney, Hui Su, Qian Ying Wang, Communications of the ACM, volume 47, number 1, January 2004. |
wed apr 4 | lab | Games Evaluation Lab (Unit II Assignment) |
mon apr 9 | HOLIDAY | no class |
wed apr 11 | HOLIDAY | no class |
unit V. Social Computing | ||
mon apr 16 | lecture | Using social media
reading:
Designing Interfaces, by Jenifer Tidwell,Ch 9, Using social media |
wed apr 18 | lab | Android Graphics part 2 |
mon apr 23 | lecture | Social media challenges and opportunities
reading:
Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media,
by Andreas M. Kaplan and Michael Haenlein,Business Horizons, volume 53, pp59-68, 2010. |
wed apr 25 | lab | privacy policies and interfaces lab
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unit VI. Human-Robot Interaction | ||
mon apr 30 | lecture | class cancelled due to illness :-( |
wed may 2 | lecture | Human Robot Interaction part 1
reading:
The Real Transformers,by Robin Marantz Henig,The New York Times Magazine, July 29, 2007. |
mon may 7 | lecture | Human Robot Interaction part 2
reading:
Human-Robot Interaction, by Robin R. Murphy, Tatsuya Nomura, Aude Billard and Jennifer L. Burke,IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, June 2010. |
Review | ||
wed may 9 | lab | Project V Demonstrations |
mon may 14 | lecture |
Review for final exam
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mon may 21 | exam! | FINAL EXAM (10.30am-12.30pm) room 5122 N |