Lecture Calendar, Slides, & Due Dates

Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20 PM, MGH 251

Date

Topics

Video

PPT

PDF

Reading Due

Assignment Due

Tue
1/8

Introduction to the Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation of Human-Computer Interfaces

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PowerPoint
125MB


2 MB

None

Thur
1/10

Designing the Future: Early Visions of HCI

Class Introductions

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PowerPoint
64MB


1 MB

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

Tools For Thought Ch 9 (Engelbart Demo)

#1 Project Proposal (Individual)

Tue
1/15

Choose Project Groups

Problem Finding

Working as a Team


PowerPoint
3 MB


1 MB

Chapter 3 of The Design of Sites

Tips for Working Successfully in a Group by Randy Pausch

The Discipline of Teams

 

Thur
1/17

Studio Task #1: Gestalt Principles [led by Kim]


 

  Gestalt Principles from Universal Principles of Design

#2 Studio Task #1 - Gestalt Principles (Individual)

Tue
1/22

Design Discovery: Contextual Inquiry

Design Discovery: Task Analysis

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23 MB

1.4 MB

Chapter 3 of Contextual Design


#3 Problem Finding & Research (Group)
Thur
1/24

Design Exploration

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PowerPoint
122 MB

2.3 MB

Pg. 35-51 from Buxton's Sketching User Experiences

 
Tue
1/29

Human Abilities

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3 MB

800 KB
Ch. 2: The Human Information Processor, from The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction By Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell, 1983, pp. 23-83 #4 Contextual Inquiry & 1st Sketches (Group)
Thur
1/31

Video Prototyping &
Concept Videos


Midterm Course Evaluation

  PowerPoint
245 MB

1.5 MB

Beaudouin-Lafon & MacKay, pp. 1-22

Video Prototyping Examples

 
Tue
2/5

Presentations #1 CI/TA/Sketches


 

 

#5 Task Analysis & Sketches Slides (Group)
Thur
2/7

Conceptual Models & Interface Metaphors

video icon PowerPoint
18 MB

1 MB

Norman Chapter 1 (subset)

#6 Hall of Fame and Shame (Individual) - due Fri at 5 PM

Tue
2/12

Work on project in class


   


#7 Web Site (Group)
Thur
2/14

Early Stage Prototyping

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9 MB

1 MB

Chapter 4 of The Design of Sites

"Making a Paper Prototype" (Ch 4) from Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder

Discussion of guidelines for user observation
By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol

 

Tue
2/19
Heuristic Evaluation (Nikki) video icon PowerPoint
5 MB

900 KB

Lewis & Rieman 4.3-4.4

Nielsen HE chapter (read 5 links under  "Heuristic Evaluation")

 
Thur
2/21
Watch & Critique Concept Videos in Class (Nikki)       What do Prototypes Prototype? by Houde and Hill

Optional: The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper
#8 Concept Video & 3 Sketches (Group)

#9 Simple Heuristic Evaluation (Individual)-due Friday

Tue
2/26

Presentations #2:
Lo-Fi Prototype & Test

   

 

#10 Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Usability Testing (Group)

Example Consent Form

Thur
2/28
MIDTERM

 

Tue
3/5

User Testing


Final Course Evaluation

 

 

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9 MB

700 KB

Appendix A from The Design of Sites

optional: Statistica Ch1, and parts of Ch3

optional: Lewis & Rieman Ch. 5

 
Thur
3/7
Visual Design video icon PowerPoint
5 MB

1.6 MB
Mullet & Sano,Designing Visual Interfaces, Ch. 2 and Ch. 5  
Tue
3/12
Presentations #3:
Interctive Prototype
        #11 Interactive Prototype (Group)
#12 Final Presentation (Group)
Thur
3/14
Presentations #3:
Interactive Prototype (cont).
        #13 Poster (Group)
Poster Template
Thur 3/21

 

PROJECT FAIR: PRESENTATIONS & POSTER SESSION, 10:30-12:20,MGH 241

 


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