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 in-class 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 Web-Scale Experiments	November 12 In-class 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 Collaboration on the Web	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