J. Blustein
CS4163: Human-Computer Interaction
(Summer 2002)
About the course
The class meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from
1:35 p.m. until 2:25 p.m. in Killam Library room 4106.
The syllabus and intake form are available in PDF format.
Information about the project and schedule is in a separate document.
If you want to allow me to use your assignments as examples in
future courses then please complete the brief permssion form.
The final exam will be scheduled by the Registrar's office.
Announcements
- 24 July (Wed.)
- Course evaluation
- 19 July
- Your final assignment was handed out in class today
- 10 July (Wed.)
- Patricia Lindley's PowerPoint slides are available
- 08 July (Mon.)
- New due date for testing strategies
- Short talk by Patricia Lindley (Dal's Human Research Ethics
Integrity Co-ordinator) about informed consent.
- 05 July (Fri.)
- In-class discussion with guest (Dr. Inkpen) about: this course, the area
of HCI as
taught at Dal, and how
this course is being taught this term.
- 26 June
- Design Documents are due
- Include your (revised) task analysis (HTA) when you
submit your Design Document (DD)
- I will not grade your DD if your task
analysis is not acceptable (but you may hand them in together if
you think your revised HTA will be acceptable)
- 20 June
- Copies of Dr. Gregson's slides are now
available
- 19 June (Wednesday)
- Dr. Gregson (from Dal's Innovation in Design Lab)
will give a special guest lecture
- 14 June (Friday)
- Dr. Inkpen will show the Kegworth documentary today
- There is an in-class exercise for marks today too.
- 12 June (Wednesday)
- Dr. Inkpen will proctor your first test
- 09 June
-
The project deadlines have been changed. See the table of new due dates in the project section.
- 04 June
- I won't have office hours today
- 31 May
-
Task Analysis due date changed to Wed. 05 June
- 29 May
-
New project groups have been
posted
Resources
There are copies of lecture notes and pointers to
other on-line sources further below.
- Files with names ending with `.ppt'
-
are in a Microsoft's PowerPoint format. You can use that software
free within the Faculty and you can purchase a license to use it
elsewhere. You could also use some free software: Star Office from
Sun Microsystems or PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. (Both of them can show you
something that resembles the lecture slides. Star Office will also
show something that looks like the notes.)
- Files with names ending with `.pdf'
-
are in Adobe's portable document format™. Those files
can be displayed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader or converted to HTML using tools from Adobe.
- Files with names ending with `.ps'
-
are in Adobe's PostScript® format. You can print
those files directly within the Faculty and you can use Ghostscript,
Ghostview, or GSview to view those files. More information about
those programs is available from the homepage for Ghostscript.
Introduction and Overview
- Historical Introduction to HCI
- Psychology of Everyday Things (POET)
- Read:
Preece et al.
Ch. 17,
Section 13.7 (pp. 273-282),
& Interview with Don Norman (pp. 55-59)
- Lecture slides: POET_lecture.ppt
- Handouts:
- Introduction to Usability and HCI Methods
- Read:
Preece et al.
Sections 19.1, 19.3, & Ch. 31
- Lecture slides:
- Handouts: Gulfs of Execution and Evaluation supplement to textbook
- In-class exercise: Kegworth Questions (about the airplane accident)
- Standards and Guidelines
- Read:
Preece et al.
Chs. 24 & 25
- Lecture slides: stds+guides.ppt
- Assignment (due Monday 29 July):
Basic Psychological Factors
- The H in HCI
- Aspects of Perception
- Introduction to Memory and Attention
- Learning and Information Processing
Usability Engineering Project
- Overall Process and Risk Management
- User and Feature Analysis
- Read: Preece et al. Chs. 18, 19.1 & 19.3
- Lecture slides: analyses.ppt
- Task Analysis
- Read: Preece et al. Ch. 20 (esp. Section 20.3)
- Lecture slides: analyses.ppt
- The slides for this lecture will be replaced by:
- Overview of Major Interaction Styles
- The Design Document
- Prototyping
- Read: Preece et al. Chs. 27 & 28
- Handouts:
- Lecture slides: prototyping.ppt
- Additional suggested readings about paper prototypes:
- Testing
- Read: Preece et al. Chs. 29, 30 & 33
- See also:
- testing handout (not available on-line)
- Dr. Maner's notes about
- Informed Consent
- Drafts of other lecture notes are available
through a cruder interface
http://www.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/course/CS/4163/index.html
- Version:
- 29 July 2002
- Author:
- J. Blustein
<jamie@cs.dal.ca>
