HCI SCHEDULE: VERSION 1.4ß

Date

Reading

Topic

Items due

Presenter

Thurs. Jan. 13

  

Introduction

    

Tues. Jan 19

HCI: Case A, Handbook: Nickerson & Landauer

Introduction to HCI

HW. 1

  

Thurs. Jan 21

Norman (1986)

Psychological perspective on HCI

    

Tues. Jan 26

General background in cognitive psych.

Human Information processing

    

Thurs. Jan 28

Handbook: Gould, Boes & Ukelson

User-Centered Design

    

Tues. Feb 2

Handbook: Jeffries

Task Analysis

HW. 2

  

Thurs. Feb 4

Handbook: Landauer

Research Methods

    

Tues. Feb 9

Norman, CH 1+2 HCI: Boehm

The development process

    

Thurs. Feb 11

HCI: Orlikowsky

Design in the real world

    

Tues. Feb 16

TBA

Norman, CH 3+4

Guidelines, standards, prototyping

HW. 3

John C.(readings and issues in guidelines +standards)

Thurs. Feb 18

HCI: Mack & Nielsen

Evaluation Methods (Usability Inspection methods)

    

Tues. Feb 23

Norman, CH 5+6 Nielsen, 1994

Evaluation methods (Heuristic Evaluation)

    

Thurs. Feb 25

Wharton, Rieman, Lewis & Polson
(1994)

Evaluation methods (cognitive walkthrough)

Project topics due

  

Tues. Mar 2

Norman, CH 7+8

TBA

    

Thurs. Mar 4

HCI: Card & Moran,

Cognitive models in HCI

  

Tim (paper)

Tues. Mar 9

Norman, CH 9+10

HCI: Olson & Olson, HCI: Gray, John et al.

Cognitive models in HCI

  

Rick S. (mental models of GUIs)

David M. (GOMS modeling paper

Thurs. Mar 11

HCI: Sproul & Kiesler,

Social aspects of computing

CSCW

Project Proposal Due

Preston K. (paper & support of situation awareness)

Susan P (improving human-human communication)

Tues. Mar 16

Norman, CH 11+12

HCI: Kling

Social aspects of computing

Controversies about computerization

  

Scott K. (paper)

Skye (MUDS & MOOS)

Thurs. Mar 18

HCI: Carroll & Mack

Training and helping users

    

Tues. Mar 23

HCI: Sellen & Nicol

Training and helping users

  

Angela R: (Computers+Disabilities)

Thurs. Mar 25

HCI: Marcus , HCI: Murch

Interface elements: Presenting information

  

Scott K. (reading from computer screens)

Michael (information visualization)

Mar 30-. Apr 1

Spring break

      

Tues. Apr 6

HCI: MacKenzie

Interface elements: User input

  

Andy (Human perception and interfaces)

Judy (Natural language interface)

Thurs. Apr 8

HCI: Ch5 (Myers)

User interface development tools

  

John M. (paper & debugging tools)

Chris W. (interfaces optimized for users)

Tues. Apr 13

Handbook: Rosson & Caroll

The psychology of programming

    

Thurs. Apr 15

TBA

New areas for HCI: IR, Hypertext and the Web

  

David M. (Web search tools)

Tues. Apr 20

TBA

New areas for HCI: IR, Hypertext and the Web

  

Harold C. (E-commerce)

Thurs. Apr 22

Landauer (1995)

HCI and user productivity

  

Tim (is HCI cost effective?)

Tues. Apr 27

Landauer (1995)

HCI and user productivity

    

Thurs. Apr 29

Handbook: Olson & Olson

New areas for HCI: CSCW

    

Tues. May 4

  

Final Project presentations

    

Thurs. May 6

  

Final Project presentations

Final Projects Due

  

References:

Baecker, R. M., Grudin, J. Buxton, W. A. S., & Greenberg, S. (1995). Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the year 2000, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Helander, M. G., Landauer, T. K. & Prabhu, Prasad V. (1997). The handbook of human-computer interaction. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Landauer, T. K., (1995). The trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability and Productivity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Nielsen, J. (1994) Heuristic Evaluation. In J. Nielsen & R. Mack, (Eds.). Usability Inspection Methods. New York: John Wiley.

Norman, D. (1993) The psychology of everyday things. New York: Basic Books.

Norman, D. A. (1998) The Invisible Computer: Why good products can fail, the personal coputer is so complex, and information appliances are the solution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wharton, C., Rieman, J., Lewis, C. & Polson, P. G. (1994) The cognitive walkthrough method. In J. Nielsen & R. Mack, (Eds.). Usability Inspection Methods. New York: John Wiley.