Human Factors in Software Development
CS 4753/PSY 4753
Fall 1998

Instructor: Wendy C. Newstetter (wendy@cc.gatech.edu)
Office Location: CoC 131
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs, 1:30-2:30pm

TA: Colleen Kehoe (colleen@cc.gatech.edu)
Office Location: 1st floor study area, CoC
Office Hours: Mon 11-12pm, Tues 3-4pm, or by appointment

Announcements

12/2/98 - Extra credit assigments (including the Pathfinder Experiment) are now available. Due to Colleen by 12/11/98 at noon.
11/19/98 - While preparing your design recovery website, have a look at these two sites as examples of what we're looking for:

http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/uidesign/pagedesign.html (some links are broken)
http://www.sun.com/980113/sunonnet/

11/10/98 - NOTE: Presentations have been postponed until next week! *sigh of relief*
10/21/98 - Added the Electronic Pin-Up Session to continue the discussion we were having in class.
10/14/98 - Updated the list of project teams. Added the MovieMail brief to the project descriptions.
10/8/98 - Added the list of project teams. Let me know if there are any corrections.
10/8/98 - REMINDER: Resubmission of HW#1 is due in class on Tuesday.
10/5/98 - A few minor edits, added a space for project groups. Also added the "Resubmission Policy" announced in the last class to the assessment page.
10/1/98 - More project briefs have been added.
9/28/98 - The description of the design recovery website has been added to the assessment page. Also, more project briefs have been added below.
9/24/98 - The Metaphor assignment has been updated. Please disregard the earlier version.
9/22/98 - Information on grading has been changed. Please disregard the earlier version.
9/21/98 - You can sign up to be notified by email when this page changes! See below...

General Information

To understand usability and usefulness of a computer system from the user's perspective.
To gain awareness of human capabilities/limitations and how they impact interaction.
To gain experience critiquing, analyzing and redesigning interfaces based on principles of user-centered design.

Meeting Time: Tues & Thurs, 12:00-1:30 pm
Meeting Place: College of Computing, Room101
Assessment Criteria: Grading & Project
Textbook: Newman, W. & Lamming, M. (1996) Interactive System Design, Addison Wesley: Reading, MA.

Project Briefs

These are the projects available for this course.

Project Teams

It's too long for this page, so I made the list of project teams a separate page.

Electronic Pin-Up Session

Here's a place to continue the discussion we've been having in class about the different projects. It uses a system called Swiki developed by Prof. Mark Guzdial that allows anyone to edit web pages in their browser using HTML forms. Crazy!

Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Deliverables
1	24-Sep	Introduction
2	29-Sep	Interfaces and interactive systems	N&L 1	Looking for the interface
	1-Oct	(cont'd)	N&L 2
3	6-Oct	User-centered design	Norman
	8-Oct	Getting to know users and their tasks	N&L 5
4	13-Oct	Understanding human-computer interaction	N&L 3	Unpacking a metaphor
	15-Oct	(cont'd)	N&L 13
5	20-Oct			*Presentation #1*
	22-Oct			(cont'd)
6	27-Oct	Design process and representation	N&L 4,11
	29-Oct	Interaction styles	N&L 12
7	3-Nov	Task analysis	N&L 6
	5-Nov	Task analysis	N&L 7
8	10-Nov	Requirements definition	N&L 8,9
	12-Nov	Evaluation techniques	N&L 14
9	17-Nov			*Presentation #2*
	19-Nov			(con'd)
10	24-Nov	Evaluation (cont'd)
	26-Nov	Design rationale
11	1-Dec			*Jury Review*
	3-Dec			*Jury Review*

Additional Resources

Printed references

ACM SIGCHI - http://www.acm.org/sigchi/

The premier professional organization for academics and industry folks working in HCI. Publishes a huge number of magazines, journals, books and conference proceedings on HCI. Many are available on the web. Many conference proceedings are available in the GVU conference room library or from Colleen.

Human Factors & Ergonomics Society - http://hfes.org/

Another large and well-know professional society with lots of publications. Has a broader scope than SIGCHI in some ways, since it's not specifically focused on computers. Some publications are available in the GVU conference room library.

CHI-Atlanta - http://www.ratio.com/chi-atlanta/

A local affiliate of SIGCHI. A great way to meet people in the field, find out about jobs in Atlanta, and see what practicing HCI professionals do. Meets about once a month.

The HCI Bibliography - http://www.hcibib.org/

A large database with bibliographic entries for books, articles, conferences, etc. Sometimes just a citation, but often includes an abstract. Does not contain full text articles.

Usable Web - http://www.usableweb.com/

A large index of web resources. If it's on the web and related to HCI, it's probably listed here.

HCI Journal - http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/HCI/

A well-known journal for HCI practitioners. This site has archives of past issues.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Column - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

A twice-monthly column about current issues in web usability. Extremely interesting reading, especially for anyone who will be designing web pages or web technolgies (e.g. browsers).

HCI Theses-In-Progress - http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/hci/tip/

Students who are currently working on a PhD or Masters thesis in HCI often list their projects here. A good place to see what HCI "research" really means.

Past HCI Courses - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/

Web pages from past offerings of CS4753, CS6751 and CS6752 are listed on this page. They've been taught by many different professors, but it might be useful to see what other students have done in the past. Many contain slides, lecture notes, references to websites and students' projects. Note that these projects were assigned by different professors who had different requirements for the projects. Do not assume that these projects meet all the requirements for this quarter's projects.

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