Schedule
| Date | Lecture | Reading (subject to change) | Assignments |
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| Aug 28 | Forming Project Groups | Out: Project Pitch | |
| Sep 2 | Introduction | In: Project Pitch (optional) | |
| Sep 4 | Overview of the Design Process |
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Out: Group Pitch / Team Descriptions |
| Sep 9 | Team Pitches | In: Group Pitch / Team Descriptions | |
| Sep 11 | Participant Observation and Contextual Inquiry |
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Out: Observation |
| Sep 16 | Contextual Inquiry Activity | ||
| Sep 18 | Design Ethnography (Guest Lecture by Jenna Burrell) |
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| Sep 23 | Personas and Other User Research Methods |
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| Sep 25 | Personas/Scenarios Activity | ||
| Sep 30 | Prototyping |
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Out: Lo-Fi Prototype |
| Oct 2 | Prototyping Activity | In: Observation | |
| Oct 7 | Group Presentations | ||
| Oct 9 | Group Presentations | ||
| Oct 14 | Formative Evaluation |
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| Oct 16 | Think Aloud Activity | In: Lo-Fi Prototype Out: Think Aloud |
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| Oct 21 | Mental Models and Affordances |
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Out: Interactive Prototype |
| Oct 23 | Prototyping Tools | In: Think Aloud | |
| Oct 28 | Usability Testing |
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| Oct 30 | Cognitive theories in HCI |
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| Nov 4 | Graphic Design |
Further Reading:
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| Nov 6 | Reflexive Design (Guest lecture by Meena Natarajan) |
Examples of Critical Design:
Further Reading:
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| Nov 13 | Heuristic Evaluation activity | In: Interactive Prototype Out: Heuristic Evaluation Out: Functional Prototype |
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| Nov 18 | A/B Testing Frameworks (Guest Lecture by Jeff Zych and Olga Antonenko, Optimizely) | In: Heuristic Evaluation Out: Experiment Design Out: Final Submission |
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| Nov 20 | Sensors & Interactions | ||
| Nov 25 | History of HCI |
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In: Experiment Design |
| Dec 2 | Final Presentations | In: Functional Prototype In: Final Presentation |
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| Dec 4 | Final Presentations | ||
| Dec 14 | In: Final Submission |
Thanks to Jake Wobbrock, Scott Klemmer, Rob Miller, James Landay and Marti Hearst for inspiring many of these slides, readings and other materials!