CS 4750
HCI Design and Evaluation
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The readings listed below are chapters from our textbook, Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd edition, by Dix, Finlay, Abowd and Beale, Prentice Hall, 1998. As you can see, we will be skipping around in terms of reading assignments, so keep up and listen in class for any changes or modifications. Also, a number of supplementary readings will be passed out in class.

Week Date Topic Reading Notes Assignments
1 5/18 Introduction   PPT  
2 5/23 History of HCI, Human capabilities 1 PPT P0 out
  5/25 Human cognitive systems, Usability Principles 2, 4.3-4.4 PPT P1 out
3 5/30 Usability Principles,
Task Analysis
4.3-4.4
7
PPT  
  6/1 Predictive Evaluation,
heuristic evaluation,
User modeling
11.1-11.4

6
PPT S1 out
4 6/6 User modeling,
Interpretive evaluation, ethnography
6 PPT P1 in,
P2 out
  6/8 Design 5 PPT S1 in
H1 out
5 6/13 Graphic design 3 PPT  
  6/15 Poster Session     Poster Session
H1 in
6 6/20 Dialog: Command. lang., 4.1-4.2 PPT P2 in
P3 out
  6/22 Midterm Exam      
7 6/27 WIMP, Direct manipulation, Speech, natural language, 15.3, 10 PPT  
  6/29 User interface software, Visual Basic, Handling errors   PPT  
8 7/6 Evaluation: Gathering data, Usability specification 11.5-11.7 PPT P3 in
P4 out
S2 out
9 7/11 Evaluation: Usability testing, Help and documentation   PPT S2 in
  7/13 Giving a Talk, UI Design for WWW 12 PPT  
10 7/18  Info Retrieval Agents on WWW 16    
  7/20 Project Presentations     P4 in
11 7/25 Project Presentations      
  7/27 Class Cancelled