590H - Course Schedule

This document contains the real course schedule and readings, typically not very far in advance. (In addition to use as a reference this quarter, it will serve as a record of how the course time was actually spent, to aid future course development.)

The accompaning readings are listed in the list of assigned and optional papers.

March 28: Design Sensitivity. Assignment 1 distributed.
March 30: The HCI Tradition -- philosophical background.
April 4: Tools for User Interface Design and Construction. Assignment 1 due.
April 6: Ethnographic Field Methods. Assignment 1 discussed in class.
April 11: class project planning. Participatory Design.
April 13: Guest lecture by Judy Ramey on Domain Analysis.
April 18: Psychological Foundations.
April 20: Assignment 2 Part 1 discussed in class. Possibly - initial project presentations and discussions. Psychological Foundations continued.
April 25: guest lecture by Kathy Potosnak (Adobe), "HCI Design Challenges in the Real World"
April 27: guest lecture by Marshal McClintock (Microsoft) on usability evaluation
May 2: Metaphor.
May 4: discussion of Assignment 2 Part 2 (observation lab); Metaphor continued.
May 9: Woody Barfield lecture on virtual reality (in Mechanical Engineering Building)
May 11: Alan Kay videotape
May 16: Wittgenstein
May 18: Midterm project presentations
May 23: more project presentations; Xerox Star case study
May 25: Hot Topics: guest lecture by Oren Etzioni, "Agents"
May 30: Hot Topics: techniques for navigating and filtering huge amounts of information
June 1: CHI trip report by Lauren Bricker; first two final project presentations
June 8 (10:30-12:20) [final exam slot] remaining final project presentations