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

• for Testing

  • Using the Cognitive Walkthrough for Operating Procedures

    from May/June 1999

    by David G. Novick

    in interactions (vol. vi no. 3)

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/301153.301166

Introduction to Usability Engineering Principles

video from Chris Han of SAP (link to vimeo)

About studying users and early testing for a mobile application for sports fans

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

• What You Experience is What You Get (WYXIWYG)

  by Gun A. Lee, J. Kim, and Mark Billinghurst

  in Communications of the ACM July 2005 (vol. 48 no. 7)

  http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1070838.1070840

• 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)

• Samples of Team-built User Interface Projects

  in the Miscellaneous section of the Lecture materials

• About Innovation Interfaces

  in the Miscellaneous section of the Lecture materials

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 at the courses.cs.dal.ca website and on reserve in the library.

The Skeptic’s Guide To Low-Fidelity Prototyping by Laura Busche at Smashing Magazine

• Live on the WWW at <URL:http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/06/the-skeptics-guide-to-low-fidelity-prototyping/>
• PDF copy

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:

For this course only

FCS CBREB Proposal for CSCI 3160, 2013-06-23(1a).pdf

The application form to the Faculty of Computer Science course-based research ethics board (FCS CBREB) for a CSCI 3160 project

FCS CBREB Appendices for CSCI 3160 proposal, 2013-06-25(1a).pdf

Appendices for the form

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