Computer Science 3160: Resources

Additional Readings (directory)

A mixture of optional and required readings organized by project phase.

• for User and Needs analyses
• for Task analysis
• for Design
  • See also the user interface lecture materials and related readings on the CD and in the library.
• Course Reserves at Dalhousie Library including the following computer-mediated presentations:

  User Interface Engineering's Web App Masters 2011

  Slides and audio for the following

  • Jared Spool - Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye Of the Perfect Storm
  • Stephen Anderson - The Quest for Emotional Engagement
  • Josh Clark - Mobile Apps: Native or Web-Based
  • Noah Iliinsky - The Steps To Beautiful Visualizations
  • Kate Brigham - PatientsLikeMe: Adventures with Data Visualizations
  • Bill Scott - Designing for Mice and Men
  • Aviva Rosenstein - Salesforce.com: Designing the Experience of The Clouds
  • Steve Portigal - Design Fieldwork: Uncovering Innovation from the Outside in
  • Kevin Hoffman - Conducting Successful Kickoff Meetings
  • Julie Zhuo - Facebook: Data-Informed vs. Data-Driven Design Decisions
  • Luke Wroblewski - Designing Mobile Web Experiences
  • Mike Lee - AARP: Designing A Strategy for Organizational Transformations
  • Jared Spool - The Essential Principles Behind Great Design Principles

  Various Design Tutorials

  Each of the below is an audio-visual recording of a 90 minute lecture-style tutorial and includes a handout

  • Essentials of Effective Visual Design with Patrick Hofmann
  • Effective Use of Icons & Images with Patrick Hofmann
  • Visual Design Essentials for Non-Designers with Dan Rubin
  • Visual Design for Web Applications with David Rivers
  • JQuery for UX Designers with Richard Rutter

Innovative Interfaces

• Multi-touch demonstration

  from February 2006

  by Jeff Han

  http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html

• Computer display in a mug

  from February 2008

  by Jason Farsai

  http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/computer_mug_is_surprisingly_c.php

• http://www.InteractiveSpaces.net/

• For further inspiration see

  Talk to Me: Design and Communication between people and objects [book] available from your professor

  TED talks (www.ted.com)

  Demo Room column in interactions magazine

• Remote Haptic Interaction

  There are at least three of these projects ongoing.  This is just one example.  Note also the remote tasting idea.

  WWW version of Adrian Cheok's Poultry Internet project profiled by Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum

  PDF version of Adrian Cheok's Poultry Internet project profiled by Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum (with links)

Fitts' Law

• Fitts' Law: Modeling Movement Time in Human-Computer Interfaces by Brian Amento, Patrick Brooks, Hope Harley, and Mike McGee.

Additional Paper Prototyping Resources

The following supplement the materials on your CD-ROM and on reserve in the library.

Paper prototype to get the right design by Chris Nodder at Questionable Methods website

• Live on the WWW at <URL:questionablemethods.com/2011/11/paper-prototype-to-get-right-design.html>
• PDF copy

Downloadable materials from Snyder's Paper Protoyping book

<URL:paperprototyping.com/download.html>

Ethics Permission for Testing

Further details will be available in class, but you will also need these documents:

Undergraduate Submission Form

Form in Microsoft Word format

Undergraduate submission – PDF form

Instructions from Dalhousie's Research Ethics

instructions in Microsoft Word format

instructions in accessible PDF

Tri Council Policy Statement (TCPS) Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans

referred to several times in the Instructions from Dalhousie's Research Ethics

Dalhousie University Policy on the Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans

referred to in the Instructions from Dalhousie's Research Ethics