SENG310 Summer 2005 - George Tzanetakis

SENG310 Human Computer Interaction - Summer 2005

The schedule provided bellow is provisional and the exact dates for the lectures/assignments/project might change during the course. The schedule is provided as a table and the following acronyms are used:
ONR (online reading materials available from the Resources link),
PRE (Interaction Design - Preece, Rogers, Sharp), NOR (The design of everyday things - Norman). Links to the slides for each lecture will be provided near the corresponding date.
The duration of assignments/project phases is indicated by color. The first date for which a colored rectange applies is when the assignment is handed out and the
last rectangle corresponds to when the assignment is due. Unless otherwise noted all assignments are due during class. More information is provided in the assignments link which also covers the project. The midterms will cover all the material preceeding the date of the midterm and not covered in the previous midterm.

DATE	TOPIC	READINGS	ASSIGNMENTS	PROJECT
May 02 M	Course Outline - History of HCI	ONR 1,2,3
May 05 R	What is interaction design ?	PRE 1
May 09 M	The process of interaction design	PRE 6		Request for Proposals
May 12 R	The psychopathology of things	NOR 1	Evaluation of handheld device	Proposals for voting
May 16 M	Identifying needs & establishing requirements	PRE 7		Phase I: Group Formation Requirements
May 19 R	Identifying needs & requirements + psychology of actions	PRE 7 NOR 2		Requirement Documents for voting
May 26 R	Guest Lecture: Aaron Hechmer
May 30 M	MIDTERM I
June 02 R	Understanding & conceptualizing interaction - Knowledge in the head & in the world	PRE 2 NOR 3		Phase I: evaluation
June 06 M	Design, Prototyping, Construction	PRE 8	Tangible interface design	Phase II: Group Formation
June 09 R	The design challenge	NOR 6		Design
June 13 M	User-centered approach to Interaction Design	PRE 9		Design Documents for voting
June 16 R	User-centered design	NOR 7
June 20 M	Understanding how interfaces affect users	PRE 5		Phase II: evaluation
June 23 R	Designing for collaboration & communication	PRE 4
June 27 M	MIDTERM II			Phase II: Prototype implementation
June 30 R	Intro to evaluation An evaluation framework	PRE 10,11	Fitt's Law	Group Formation
July 04 M	Understanding users	PRE 3		Prototype
July 07 R	Testing & modeling users	PRE 14
July 11 M	Observing & asking users	PRE 12,13
July 14 R	Various topics
July 16 S	EVAL/DEMO FEST			EVAL/DEMO FEST
July 18 M	HCI for music information retrieval
July 21 R	MIDTERM III
July 25 M	Sensor-enhanced musical instruments
July 28 R	The future of HCI