course syllabus

Week 1, Tuesday 5 Jan

• Required Reading
  • None

Week 1, Thursday 7 Jan

• Due
  • Assignment 1: Project Group and Idea
• Required Reading
  • Contextual Inquiry
• Optional Reading
  • Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. (2002) Yochai Benkler, Yale Law Journal, 112:369. Section I.

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Week 2, Tuesday 12 Jan

• Due
  • Assignment 2: Inspirational Design & Discovery
• Required Reading
  • Understanding Comics

Week 2, Thursday 14 Jan

• Due
  • Assignment 3: Storyboards & Paper Prototypes
• Required Reading
  • Paper Prototyping

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Week 3, Tuesday 19 Jan

• Due
  • Assignment 4, Part I: HTML Mockups
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Beyond Being There, Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta, CHI 1992: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 119 - 25.
  • The Uncanny Valley. Wikipedia.org.
• Optional Readings
  • Nguyen, D., and Canny, J. MultiView: Improving Trust in Group Video Conferencing through Spatial Faithfulness. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'07).

Week 3, Thursday 21 Jan

• Due
  • Assignment 4, Part II: Design Document
• Required Reading
  • Fix Time and Budget, Flex Scope
  • Half, Not Half-Assed

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Week 4, Tuesday 26 Jan

• Lecture Slides
• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Donath, J. (1998) Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community. In Smith, M., and P. Kollock (Eds.) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.
• Optional Readings
  • Erickson, T. (2003) Designing visualizations of social activity: six claims. In Extended abstracts of ACM Computer-Human Interaction.

Week 4, Thursday 28 Jan

• Due
  • Assignment 5, One-on-One Meetings
• Required Reading
  • None

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Week 5, Tuesday 2 Feb

• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Burke, M., Marlow, C., and Lento, T. (2009). Feed me: Motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites. ACM CHI 2009: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  • Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message.
• Optional Readings
  • Lampe, C. and Johnston, E., Follow the (Slash) dot: Effects of Feedback on New Members in an Online Community. in International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP '05
  • Burke, M., Joyce, E., Kim, T., Anand, V., and Kraut, R. (2007). Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical Strategies That Elicit Response in Online Communities. Third International Conference on Communities & Technologies 2007.

Week 5, Thursday 4 Feb

• Due
  • Assignment 6: Engineering Meetings
• Required Reading
  • None

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Week 6, Tuesday 9 Feb

• Lecture Slides
• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Gilbert, E. and Karahalios, K. G. (2009) Predicting Tie Strength with Social Media. ACM CHI 2009.
• Optional Readings
  • Scott A. Golder, and Bernardo A. Huberman. (2006) Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems, Journal of Information Science, v.32 n.2, p.198-208, April 2006
  • Viégas, F., Wattenberg, M., Kriss, J., and F. van Ham. (2007) Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia. In Proc. 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
  • Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11, October 2007.
  • The Strength of Weak Ties, Mark Granovetter, American Journal of Sociology 78 (6): 1360–1380, May 1973, doi:10.1086/225469

Week 6, Thursday 11 Feb

• Due
  • Assignment 7: Engineering Meetings
• Required Reading
  • None

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Week 7, Tuesday 16 Feb

• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. (2002) Yochai Benkler, Yale Law Journal, 112:369. Section III.
• Optional Readings
  • Hardin, R. (2003) The Free Rider Problem. In E.N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2003 Edition). Sections 1 and 2.
  • Ipeirotis, P. (2008) Why Do People Participate on Mechanical Turk? Part 1 and Part 2.

Week 7, Thursday 18 Feb

• Due
  • Assignment 8: Alpha Release
• Required Reading
  • None

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Week 8, Tuesday 23 Feb

• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • von Ahn, L. and Dabbish, L. 2008. Designing games with a purpose. Commun. ACM 51, 8 (Aug. 2008), 58-67.
• Optional Readings
  • R. Bartle. Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs, J. MUD Research, vol. 1, no. 1
  • Heer, J. 2006. Socializing Visualization. Social Visualization Workshop, CHI 2006

Week 8, Thursday 25 Feb

• Due
  • Assignment 9: Beta Release
• Required Reading
  • None

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Week 9, Tuesday 2 Mar

• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Kohavi, R., Henne, R., and Sommerfield, D. (2007) Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web. KDD 2007: ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
  • Kittur, A., Chi, E. H., and Suh, B. 2008. Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 453-456.
• Optional Readings
  • Methodology Matters: Doing Research in the behavioral and social sciences, Joseph E. McGrath, in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, R. M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W. A. S. Buxton, S. Greenberg, ed., 1995, pp. 152 - 169.

Week 9, Thursday 4 Mar

• Due
  • Assignment 10: Launch!
• Required Reading
  • None

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Week 10, Tuesday 9 Mar

• Due
  • Reading Response
• Required Reading
  • Horowitz, D. and Kamvar, S. Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine, WWW 2010
• Optional Readings
  • Herlocker, J, Konstan, J., Terveen, L., and Riedl, J. Evaluating Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 22 (2004), ACM Press, 5-53.
  • Recommender Systems, Paul Resnick, Hal R. Varian, Communications of the ACM, 40(3), March 1997, pp. 56-58.

Week 10, Thursday 11 Mar

• Due
  • Assignment 11: Testing Results
• Required Reading
  • None