professors

Scott Klemmer
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm, Gates 384

Sep Kamvar
TBD

teaching assistant (& office hours)

Greg Schwartz - mrgreg AT cs.stanford.edu
TBD

e-mail policy

We want to make sure we get to your questions, and to help with that, we'd appreciate it if you directed your question at the right place.

Rather than emailing us individually, send an email to cs294h AT cs.stanford.edu Please allow us up to 24 hours to reply.

autumn 2008

CS294H: Social Software

Thursdays (and some Tuesdays), 3:15pm - 5:05pm, Wallenberg 124

Many of the most successful web applications are social, from personalized homepages to social networks. You will learn the fundamental interface, systems, and algorithms concepts in designing social software. The case-based syllabus will cover insights from both research and industry. As a student, you will contribute to this burgeoning field through a quarter-long, team-based project. Students are required to enter the class with an initial project idea.

Students in this course are encouraged to attend CS547, the HCI seminar, on Fridays from 12:30 - 2:00pm.

Please join the Google Group right away!

Studio: Submit homework, view others' work, and see your grades at this link. Use your SUNet Username / Password to log in.

syllabus & readings

  Tuesday Thursday
Week 1   September 25
Idea
Week 2 September 30
Inspirational Designs and Discovery Reading: Contextual Inquiry 		October 2
Storyboard Reading: Understanding Comics
Week 3 October 7
Paper and Video Prototype Reading: Paper Prototyping 		October 9
HTML Mockups of all pages and Page Flow & User Testing I
Week 4 October 14
Design Doc — High Level System Architecture Reading: Fix Time and Budget, Flex Scope and Half, Not Half-Assed 		October 16
No class, just office hours
Week 5   October 23
Engineering Meeting
Week 6   October 30
Engineering Meeting
Week 7   November 6
Alpha Version Due
Week 8   November 13
Beta Version Due
Week 9   November 20
Beta-test results and Test Plan due; Launch!
Week 10   November 27
Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 10   December 4
Testing Results Due
Finals Week Monday, 12/8 3:30-6:30PM
Final Presentations		  
Note: If you'd like to annotate PDFs on Windows, check out PDF Viewer.

books referenced in the course

requirements & grading

Prerequisites:

Attendance and participation in class is mandatory.

Grading: Each assignment is graded out of a set amount of points (these can be seen on each assignment's page). These points, combined with class/studio participation (75 points), add up to a total of 1000 points.

late work & absence policy

No late assignments will be accepted, but you may submit them early.