SE 542 - Human Computer Interaction (Spring 2011-2012)
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Tentative Schedule

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  Date Lecture Topics Reading Material Assignments
Week
#1
Feb 23, Thursday

Course Introduction 

Introduction, history of HCI.

Lecture Slides
   
Week
#2
March 1, Thursday

Affordance, usability. Usability principles.

Lecture Slides
The psychopathology of everyday things

Optional Readings:

Affordance
Mapping
Visibility
Mental Model
Assignment #1 (Due Date: March 8 in class)
 

Week
#3
Mar 8, Thursday

Human information processing limitations, human cognitive and sensory limits.

Lecture Slides
Optional Readings:

Recognition over Recall
 

Assignment #2
Quiz from the assignment on March 15

 

Week
#4
Mar 15, Thursday

The computer aspect of Human Computer Interaction
Last year's handout

Prototyping techniques
Lecture Slides
 

Assignment #3
Quiz from the assignment on March 22

 

Week
#5
Mar 22, Thursday

User interface design paradigms,
User interface design rules

Lecture Slides
 

Assignment #4
Quiz from the assignment on March 29

 

 

Week
#6
Mar 29, Thursday

Process of interaction design.
Design languages.
Lecture Slides

User modeling and the user profile. Adaptive interfaces.
Lecture Slides
 

Project Proposals (Phase One Reports) are due on April 5, Midnight, Submit via COW

Sample Project Proposal #1
Sample Final Report #1

Sample Project Proposal #2
Sample Final Report #2
 

Week
#7
Apr 5, Thursday

NO CLASS ON APRIL 5  

 

Week
#8
Apr 12, Thursday

Midterm exam
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Week
#9
Apr 19, Thursday

No class
Away for the HIBIT 2012 conference
 

 

Week
#10
Apr 26, Thursday

Evaluating usability. Predictive and interpretive evaluation.

Lecture Slides
 

Assignment #5
Quiz from the assignment on May 3

 

Week
#11
May 3, Thursday

3D User interfaces, augmented reality.

Lecture Slides
 

 

Assignment #6
Quiz from the assignment on May 10

 

Week
#12
May 10, Thursday

Speech recognition and conversational interfaces.

Lecture Slides

Text-to-speech example
 

Assignment #7
Quiz from the assignment on May 17

 

Week
#13
May 17, Thursday

Multimodal interfaces, perceptual interfaces.

Ubiquitous Computing

Lecture Slides

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
 

 

 

 

Week
#14
May 24, Thursday

Project Presentations

Presentation Schedule