professor

Scott Klemmer
Tuesdays 3:30-5:00p, Gates 384

teaching assistants (& office hours)

Abel Allison Monday 2:30p-4:30p
Jesse Cirimele Wednesday 1:15p-3:15p
Akshay Kothari Wednesday 2:00p-4:00p
Catherine Harrell Thursday 3:15p-4:15p
Maria Sandberg Tuesday 4:00p-6:00p
Snir Kodesh Monday 4:00p-6:00p

TA office hours held in the iRoom (Gates B23).
Google Calendar: hours, cancellations, changes

project presentations 2008

autumn 2009

CS147: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:15pm - 2:05pm, Hewlett 201

Students will learn the fundamental concepts of human-computer interaction and user-centered design thinking. Students will work in teams of 3 on an interaction design project that is supported by lectures, readings, and studios. For information about the optional 1-unit lab, see the CS147L subsite. The setting for course projects will be a mobile device. Course projects should address one of the following three briefs:

Induce (small) Change

Create (small) Media

Share (small) Experiences

syllabus & readings

Each lecture has a reading associated with it. Please skim the readings before lectures, and use them as a study guide when preparing for the exam in Week 8. The readings should also be helpful as reference materials for the main project, and beyond this class. Search inside lecture slides:

	Tuesday	Thursday	Assignment
Week 1	September 22 Introduction	September 24 User-Centered Design	How Might We
Reading		Universal Principles of Design
Week 2	September 29 Discovery	October 1 Direct Manipulation	Inspiration
Reading	Need-Finding Handout	Hutchins/Hollan/Norman, Direct Manipulation
Week 3	October 6 Input Guest Lecture: Björn Hartmann	October 8 Representation Matters	Discovery Groups form in this studio
Reading	Jef Raskin: Humane Interface, Ch. 4	Norman, Things that Make us Smart "Power of Representation"
Week 4	October 13 Prototyping	October 15 Design Reviews	Storyboard
Reading	Snyder, Paper Prototype, Ch. 4	Nielsen Ten Heuristics for Evaluation
Week 5	October 20 Visual Design	October 22 Video Prototyping & Information Design	Paper Prototyping
Reading	Selections from Universal Principles of Design	Tufte: Visual Design of Quantitative Information Ch. 8, Beautiful Evidence Ch. Corruptions
Week 6	October 27 Interacting With Information	October 29 Social Software	Video Prototype
Reading	UIE Fundamentals: Designing for the Scent of Information)
Week 7	November 3 Evaluating Designs	November 5 Conducting a User Study	Functional Prototype Checkpoint 1
Reading	David W. Martin, Doing Psychology Experiments Ch. 2	The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Chapters 9 and 10 (pg 157-210)
Week 8	November 10 Data Driven Design	November 12 Exam	Functional Prototype Checkpoint 2
Reading	Ron Kohavi et. al., Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web
Week 9	November 17 Software Tools	November 19 Search & Social Software	Functional Prototype
Reading	Past, Present and Future of User Interface Tools	Marti Hearst: Search User Interfaces, Chapter 1 Ben Shneiderman, Designing the User Interface, ch. 9
Thanksgiving break
Week 10	December 1 What We Learned... and Where What’s Next	December 3 Guest Lecture: Forrest Glick How to Present your Design Work	User Test Results Final Presentation Materials
Reading	Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century
Finals Week	December 8, 7:00–10:00pm Project Presentations in Hewlett 201, then posters in Packard Lobby		Individual Team Assessment