Human-Computer Interaction

CS 6751 Fall 1998

Final Exam

This exam contains four parts. Three of these parts make up the actual exam. The fourth part is an evaluation of your project team members that will count toward the overall project grade.

Part 0: Project/Peer reviews

Due: Thursday, December 4 in class

On a separate piece of paper, I would like you to rate on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 100 (highest) the following factors relating to your group project. Your input will remain confidential, so I urge you to be honest in your appraisals. The instructor will use input from this assessment to help determine cases in which extraordinary effort should be recognized (both positively and negatively).

Rate the overall quality of the work of your project.
For each individual in your project team, including yourself, rate the overall contribution of that individual to the project as a whole. In making your assessment, include issues such as responsibility, dependability, sharing of workload, intellectual contribution, and promotion of team morale.
If there are any special comments or considerations you would like the instructor to be aware of in your project team, please provide that input as well.

The remainder of this exam is due at noon Wednesday, December 9. It should be turned into Dr. Abowd's office in 380 CRB (10th and Dalney Street). Early submission is accepted and encouraged.

Part 1: Redesigning 6751 (80 points)

The semester system is upon us and you have been selected to be the instructor of the graduate Introduction to HCI course. Your assignment is to design the course, providing the following information:

(10 points) Learning objectives: A concise list of knowledge or skill acquisition goals that you feel are the most important outcomes of the course.
(10 points) Reference material: Books, articles, Web resources that will constitute required reading for the class. Justify why you have selected the various materials.
(40 points) Syllabus: A lecture-by-lecture list of topics to be covered for each lecture during the semester. Please note that the class will last for 16 weeks and will meet twice each week for 90 minute lectures. Be sure to leave one lecture free for a midterm. For each lecture topic, you are to assign reading material (if necessary) as well as provide an outline/agenda for the lecture of the main points to be covered.
(20 points) Project: The ACM SIGCHI Curriculum guide strongly recommends that an introductory HCI class be taught as a project-based class. Therefore, you are to design and incorporate a group project into the course.

You can, of course, base your course on the 6751 course you have just completed, but this new course is 50% longer in duration. I expect that you will take advantage of the time in ways that would improve upon the 10-week version of the class.

Don't be afraid to be very creative and think of teaching techniques or topics that are "out of the box". For example, if you thought that the captured lectures from this quarter were good for some topics, how would you take advantage of that?

Part 2: Survey on Classroom 2000 (10 points)

Print out and complete the following survey on your reaction to the Classroom 2000 lecture capture system, as you have experienced it this quarter.

Part 3: Copy of notes (10 points)

I would like to have a copy of all of your notes you took in this class during the quarter. Please assemble a neat packet of your notes, arranged chronologically to hand in to the instructor. You do not have to turn in your original notes. Instead, please make a readable photocopy of the original notes. You can use the photocopier in the first floor mailroom of the College of Computing, using the PIN 6751987. If you printed out the prepared lecture notes before class and brought them with you to class, please make a copy of those notes as well, even if you did not mark on them.

If for some reason you did not take notes for any or all of the lectures, please indicate explicitly the lecture dates in which you did not take notes.

If for some reason you are uncomfortable with the instructor seeing any parts of your notes, please indicate this and the research staff will ensure that Dr. Abowd does not see those notes.

If you modified your notes after a lecture, please indicate where modifications occurred in red ink within the notes.

I would also like you to make a legible photocopy of your midterm exam and include that with your packet.

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