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User Interface Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Spring 2007

Instructor: Ben Schafer

Check here frequently for announcements, assignments, changes to the schedule, etc.
Session Date Reading Due Daily Topic Assignments Due
1 1/8  

An Introduction to HCI and this course.

 
2 1/10   Psychology and Foundations of Design  
  1/12   Studio : It Bug's Me It Bug's Me (I)
  1/15   No Class  
3 1/17 UIDP, Ch. 1, plus get a head start on next week Project Brainstorm  

[ Ideas that you submitted after class ]

 
4 1/19   Working in Groups  
5 1/22 DOET, whole book,  UIDP, Ch 4 Beginning DOET Groups Formed (G)
6 1/24   More of DOET  
7 1/26   Interacting with Users Project Proposal (G)
8 1/29 TCUID, Chs 1-2, UIDP, Ch 2 Interacting with Users, pt 2.  
9 1/31   Beginning TCUID, tasks  
  2/2   Studio : Proposals and Visit Plans User visit plans (G)
10 2/5

UIDP, Ch 9

More TCUID, scenarios  
11 2/7   Interaction Styles  
  2/9   Studio : Visit Reports User visit reports (G)
12 2/12 TCUID, ch. 3 Prototyping  
13 2/14   Prototyping, pt. 2  
14 2/16   Prototyping, pt. 3 Revised Project Proposal (G)
15 2/19 UIDP, Ch 3,  Chs 5- 7 Design Guidelines  
  2/21   Studio: Lo-FI Paper Prototype (G)
  2/23   Studio: Lo-Fi  
  2/26   Studio: Lo-Fi  
16 2/28 TCUID, ch. 4, UIDP, Ch 8 Evaluation Introduction  
  3/2   Snow Day  
17 3/5   Cognitive Walkthrough Scenarios based on Prototype (G)
  3/7   No Class - meet with your team to complete CW  
  3/9   No Class, submit deliverable to my mailbox by 3 PM. Cognitive Walkthrough (G)
  3/19 Conduct a heuristic evaluation

Ten recommended heuristics

 

 
18 3/21 TCUID, Ch 5 Heuristic Evaluation  
19 and 20 3/23   Usability Testing parts 1 and 2  
  3/26   No Class - Meet with your teams to "merge" individual HEs  
  3/28   Studio : Evaluation without Users Heuristic Evaluation (I, G)
21 3/30   Usability Lab Training  
  4/2   Studio : Usability Test Plans Usability test plans (I,G)
  4/4   Studio : Coded Prototype Coded Prototype (G)
  4/6   Final Exam due by 3:00  
22 4/9   Introduction to HCI  
23 4/11   Designing information spaces for the web  
  4/13   Studio : Eval. Report/Video Eval Reports/Video and Change List (G and G)
24 4/16 Look through materials at www.ubicomp.org and www.ucrp.org) Ubiquitous Computing Poster Template
25 4/18   Other Interfaces (Amtrak Activity)  
26 4/20   CSCW Presentation Plans (G)
  4/23   Open House, held in Wright 339  
  4/25   No Class, Optional Field trip to ISU Team Evaluation Forms
  4/27   Studio : Projects Due/ Course wrapup Final Deliverables (I,G)