CS 491m/790m Human-Computer Interaction

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CS 491m/790mHuman-Computer Interaction

• Fall 2005
• Course Syllabus
• August 29, 2005

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Outline

• The Instructor
• The Students
• The Course
• The Texts
• Initial WWW Pointers
• Grading Scheme
• Policies
• Tentative Schedule

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The Instructor.

• Sergiu Dascalu
• Room SEM-236
• Telephone [phone]
• E-mail dascalus_at_cs.unr.edu
• Web-site www.cs.unr.edu/dascalus
• Office hours
• Tuesday and Wednesday 230 330 pm or by
  appointment or chance

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.The Instructor

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

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The Students

• Registered
• 15 graduate 2 undergraduate
• Prerequisite
• Instructors approval

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The Course

• Classroom SEM 347, MW 100 pm - 215 pm
• Outline This course examines topics related to
  developing high quality user interfaces for
  interactive computer systems. Topics covered
  include usability requirements and measures,
  managing design processes, development
  methodologies, evaluating user interfaces,
  interface-building tools, interaction styles,
  collaborative systems, interaction devices, user
  manuals, and information search and
  visualization.

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The Texts.

• Required textbook
• Ben Schneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Designing
  the User Interface Strategies for Effective
  Human-Computer Interaction, 4th Edition,
  Addison-Wesley, 2004
• ISBN 0-321-20058-6
• Recommended textbook
• Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen
  Sharps "Interaction Design Beyond
  Human-Computer Interaction, Wiley Sons, 2002.
  ISBN 0-471-49278-7

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.The Texts

• Lecture notes
• Presentations by the instructor
• Notes you take in the classroom
• Additional texts (see pages 18 to 20)
• Material (papers, tutorials, etc.) that will be
  indicated later by the instructor

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Initial WWW Pointers

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

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Grading Scheme..

• Grading scheme for CS790m students (tentative)
• Assignments 15
• Presentations 15
• Midterm test 20
• Project 32
• Paper 13
• Class participation 5
• TOTAL 100

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.Grading Scheme.

• Grading scheme for CS491m students (tentative)
• Assignments 16
• Presentations 16
• Midterm test 20
• Project 40
• Class participation 8
• TOTAL 100

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..Grading Scheme

• Passing conditions (all must be met)
• 50 overall
• 50 in test
• 50 in project and paper
• 50 in assignments, presentations, and class
  participation
• For grade A at last 90 overall, at least 90 in
  class participation, and at least 60 in test
• 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 student will deliver a presentation based on
  one of the following additional texts (or
  similar)
• 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.
Week Dates (M, W) Contents
1 Aug 29, 31 Lectures Students introduction
2 - , Sep 7 Individual preparation Searching video clips additional text, deciding on project group and topic
3 Sep 12, 14 Lectures, A1 given Draw of presentations orderD
4 Sep 19, 21 Lectures, A2 given A1 due Selection additional text
5 Sep 26, 28 Lectures, Project requirements given
6 Oct 3, 5 Lectures A2 due
7 Oct 10, 12 Lectures, A3 given
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.Tentative Schedule
8 Oct 17, 19 Lectures Project part I due
9 Oct 24, 26 Lecture Presentations by students (project)
10 Oct 31, Nov 2 Presentations by students (project)
11 Nov 7, 9 Lecture, Invited talk or Independent study Project checkpoint, A3 due
12 Nov 14, 16 Lecture Midterm (11/16)
13 Nov 21, 23 Lecture Presentations by students (additional book)
14 Nov 28, 30 Presentations by students (additional book)
15 Dec 5, 7 Presentations by students (additional book) Project part II due, Project demo
16 Dec 12, - Paper due (12/14)