CS 420 CS 620 HumanComputer Interaction

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CS 420 / CS 620Human-Computer Interaction

• Fall 2007
• Course Syllabus
• August 27, 2007

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Outline

• The instructor
• The students
• The course
• The texts
• Initial web pointers
• Grading schemes
• Policies
• Tentative schedule

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The Instructor.

• Sergiu Dascalu
• Room SEM-236
• Telephone [phone]
• E-mail dascalus_at_cse.unr.edu
• Web-site www.cse.unr.edu/dascalus
• Office hours
• MW 300 400 (general)
• MW 645 715 (grad students)

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.The Instructor

• Sergiu Dascalu
• PhD, Dalhousie U., Halifax, NS, Canada, 2001
• Teaching and research at UNR,
• 2002-present (software engineering, HCI)
• Teaching and research at Dalhousie University,
  1993-2001 (software engineering focus)
• Teaching and research at the University
  Politehnica Bucharest, Romania, 1984-1995
• (RT embedded systems focus)
• Consultant for software development companies in
  Canada and Romania

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The Students

• Registered
• 14 graduate students 11 undergrad students
• Prerequisite
• CS 302

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The Course

• Classroom
• PE-205
• MW 530 - 645 pm
• Catalog description Usability goals, design
  principles, design processes, prototyping,
  interface metaphors, interaction styles,
  interaction devices, software tools, evaluation
  paradigms and techniques, user manuals,
  collaborative work, information visualization.
  Prerequisite CS 302 Data Structures.

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The Texts.

• Required textbook
• Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen
  Sharps "Interaction Design Beyond
  Human-Computer Interaction, Wiley Sons, 2007.
  
• Recommended textbook
• Ben Schneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Designing
  the User Interface Strategies for Effective
  Human-Computer Interaction, 4th Edition,
  Addison-Wesley, 2004

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.The Texts

• Lecture notes
• Presentations by the instructor
• Notes you take in the classroom
• Additional texts (grad students only see
  examples on slides 18-20)
• Material (papers, tutorials, etc.) that will be
  indicated later by the instructor

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Initial WWW Pointers

• Required textbooks website (Preece et als
  Interaction Design)
• http//www.id-book.com/
• Recommended textbooks website
• (Schneiderman Plaisant)
• http//wps.aw.com/aw_shneider_dtui_4/
• Gary Perlmans HCI bibliography
• http//hcibib.org/

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Grading Scheme..

• Grading scheme for CS 420 students (tentative)
• Assignments (3) 15
• Presentations (2) 10
• Midterm tests (2) 32
• Project (2) 36
• Class participation 7
• TOTAL 100

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.Grading Scheme.

• Grading scheme for CS 620 students (tentative)
• NOTE More details on differences between course
  requirements and
• opportunities CS620 vs. CS420 are available in
  the syllabus handout
• of August 27, 2007.
• Assignments (2) 8
• Essay (1) 7
• Presentations (3) 12
• Midterm tests (2) 30
• Project (2) 26
• Paper (1) 12
• Class participation 5
• TOTAL 100

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..Grading Scheme

• Passing conditions (all must be met)
• 50 overall
• 50 in tests
• 50 in project and paper
• 50 in assignments, presentations, and class
  participation
• For grade A at least 90 overall, at least 90
  in class participation, and at least 60 in test
  significant lack of class participation will
  significantly affect the overall grade for the
  course
• Note that there are no make-up tests or homework
  in this course

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Grading Scale

• Numerical-letter grade correspondence
• A 90 -100
  maximum 100
• A- 87 - 89
• B 83 - 86
• B 78 - 82
• B- 75 - 77
• C 71 - 74
• C 66 - 70
• C- 63 - 65
• D 60 - 62
• D 55 - 59
• D- 50 - 54
• F lt 50

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Policies

• Late submission policy
• Maximum 2 late days per assignment/project
  deliverable
• Each late day penalized with 10
• No subdivision of late days
• No late days for presentations and test
• Example a 90/100 worth assignment gets 81/100 if
  one day late (900.9 81) or 72/100 if two days
  late (900.8 72)

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.Policies..

• Legal notices on the world-wide web Read and
  comply with accompanying legal notices of
  downloadable material
• Specify references used
• Do not plagiarize (see next slide)

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..Policies.

• Plagiarism and cheating Will not be tolerated.
  Please read the policies of University of Nevada,
  Reno regarding academic dishonesty
• www.unr.edu/stsv/acdispol.html

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Policies

• Disability Statement
• If you have a disability for which you will need
  to request accommodations, please contact me or
  someone at the Disability Resource Center
  (Thompson Student Services - 107), as soon as
  possible.

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Additional Texts..

• Each graduate student will deliver an essay and
  presentation based on additional reading texts
  such as
• 1 Don A. Norman, The Design Of Everyday Things
• 2 Don A. Norman, Emotional Design
• 3 Steven Krug, Dont Make Me Think A Common
  Sense Approach to Web Usability
• 4 Carolyn Snyder, Paper Prototyping The Fast and
  Easy Way to Refine User Interfaces
• 5 Mike Kuniavsky, Observing the User Experience
  A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

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.Additional Texts.

• 6 B.J. Fogg, Persuasive Technology Using
  Computers to Change What We Think We Do
• 7 Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface New
  Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
• 8 Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski, Designing
  from Both Sides of the Screen How Designers and
  Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative
  Technology
• 9 Jeff Johnson, GUI Bloopers Donts and Dos for
  Software Developers and Web Designers
• 10 Karen Donahue, Built for Use Driving
  Profitability
• Through the User Experience

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..Additional Texts

• 11 Joel Spolsky, User-Interface Design for
  Programmers
• 12 Ben Shneiderman, Leonardos Laptop
• 13 Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala, Windows
  and Mirrors Interaction Design, Digital Art,
  and the Myth of Transparency
• 14 Nathan Shedroff, Experience Design 1
• 15 Eric Begnan (editor), Information Appliances
  and Beyond
• 16 Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground
  Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and
  Environmental Knowing

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Tentative Schedule.
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.Tentative Schedule