spring 2013

CS376: Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction

Monday & Wednesday, 1:15PM – 3:05PM, Littlefield 107

cs376@cs.stanford.edu

Michael Bernstein, Gates 308, Office Hours: Friday 3:50pm-5pm

ta: Joy Kim, office hours Wednesdays 10:30-11:30, Gates 3B Atrium

ta: Diana MacLean, office hours Mondays 12:00pm-1:00pm, Gates 372

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Overview

This course is a broad graduate-level introduction to HCI research. The course begins with seminal work on interactive systems, and moves through current and future research areas in interaction techniques and the design, prototyping, and evaluation of user interfaces. Topics include computer-supported cooperative work; audio, speech, and multimodal interfaces; user interface toolkits; design methods; evaluation methods; ubiquitous and context-aware computing; tangible interfaces; haptic interaction; and mobile interfaces.

This is a 4-unit course, open to all graduate students. For undergraduates, earning an A- or better in cs147 is a prerequisite. (Graduate students with a unit cap may enroll for 3 units; the workload is the same.) Students registered for the class will receive a letter grade—the "credit/no credit" option is not available.

Students in this course are encouraged to attend CS547, the HCI seminar; Fridays 12:50 - 2:05pm.

Course Structure

The course comprises two pieces: reading and discussing research papers, and a quarter-long research project.

For each class period, students will submit short commentaries on the assigned readings (submitted online in this format by 7am on the day of class). After 7am on the day of class, all commentaries will be made available for other students to read (again, through the online submission system). The discussion leader and course staff will all read these before class to prepare for discussion. Students are expected to do all of the readings; commentaries are only required for those marked on the syllabus.

Students will lead one class discussion each. For details on how to structure a discussion, go here. The discussant(s) should meet with the course staff at the end of the previous class - come to this meeting with a plan for your discussion. On discussion day, students submit their materials instead of their commentary using the online submission system. The discussant should read all student commentaries before class and integrate them into the discussion. Finally, the discussant is responsible for grading the student commentaries.

Syllabus

Note: Stanford students can use the Stanford Library proxy for off-campus access to the readings posted on ACM Portal.

Date	Topic	Submit Commentary?	Readings
1 April	Foundations		As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
3 April	Intro: Ubiquitous Computing Discussants: Will McGrath and Jon Bassen	✓	The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94 - 104.
3 April		✓	Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface, Chris Harrison, Desney Tan, and Dan Morris. CHI 2010.
8 April	Intro: Social Computing Discussants: Daniela Retelny, Elaine Zhou, Parth Bhakta, Stephanie Nicholson	✓	Evidence-based social design: Introduction Paul Resnick, Robert Kraut, Evidence-based social design: Mining the social sciences to build online communities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Read through Section 5.
		✓	Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside. Bernstein, M., Little, G., Miller, R.C., Hartmann, B., Ackerman, M., Karger, D.R., Crowell, D., and Panovich, K. In Proc. UIST 2010. ACM Press.
		Research Group Partner Choices due at end of class
10 April	Intro: Design & Creation Discussants: Ethan Fast, Graham Roth	✓	Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One, Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abigail Sellen CHI 2006.
10 April		✓	Past, Present, and Future of User Interface Software Tools, Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, Randy Pausch, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, March 2000, pp. 3 - 28.
15 April	Research Discussants: Chris Lewis, Noam Ben-Avi, Ben Poyet	✓	The Science of Design, Herbert A. Simon in The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969, pp. 128-159.
		✓	Pasteur's Quadrant, Ch. 3, Stokes D.E., pp 58-89
		Project Abstract Draft Due at 7:00am - Submit Online
17 April	Methods Discussants: Stephanie Young, Maurizio Calo Caligaris	✓	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.
17 April		✓	Creative Hypothesis Generating in Psychology: Some Useful Heuristics, McGuire, W.J., Annual Review of Psychology, 48(1), 1-30.
22 April	Ubicomp: Pervasive Discussants: Sam King, Deniz Kahramaner, Matt Bettonville	✓	HydroSense: infrastructure-mediated single-point sensing of whole-home water activity. Froehlich, J. E., Larson, E., Campbell, T., Haggerty, C., Fogarty, J., and Patel, S. N. Ubicomp 2009.
22 April		✓	The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and structure in everyday encounters with space Dourish, P., Bell, G., Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
24 April	Ubicomp: Input Discussants: Aakash Dhuna, Khaled AlTurkestani, Tyler Crimme	✓	Enabling always-available input with muscle-computer interfaces. T Scott Saponas, Desney S Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin Balakrishnan, Jim Turner, James A Landay. UIST 2009.
		✓	Printed optics: 3D printing of embedded optical elements for interactive devices. Karl Willis, Eric Brockmeyer, Scott Hudson, and Ivan Poupyrev. UIST 2012.
			Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved, Bill Buxton.
26 April	Project Abstract Final Due at 7:00am - Submit Online
26 April	Please sign up for Project Progress Meetings.
29 April	Global Citizenship Guest Host: Terry Winograd (Michael at CHI) Discussants: Wendy Lu, Jim Liu, Eric Feldman, Shane Hegde	✓	Avaaj Otalo — A Field Study of an Interactive Voice Forum for Small Farmers in Rural India. Patel, N., Chittamuru, D., Jain, A., Dave, P., Parikh, T. CHI 2010.
			Can Technology End Poverty?. Toyama, K. Boston Review. Optional: entire issue framed around Toyama's article.
			The Design of Eco-Feedback Technology. Froehlich, J.E., Findlater, L., and Landay, J.A. CHI 2010.
1 May	Models Guest Host: Jeff Shrager (Michael at CHI) Discussants: Francisco Guzman, Tiffany Dharma, Jingshu Chen, Calvin Fernandez	✓	Exploring and Finding Information. Peter Pirolli. Chapter 7: HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks.
1 May			User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering. Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran. ACM conference on the history of personal workstations 1986.
6 May	Social: Social Computing Discussants: Zheng Shen, Nicholas Stevens, Stephen Young, Sarah Dapul-Weberman	✓	Predicting tie strength with social media. Gilbert, E. and Karahalios, K. CHI 2009.
		✓	The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine. Damon Horowitz and Sepandar D. Kamvar. WWW 2010.

8 May	Social: Crowdsourcing Discussants: Ningxia Zhang, Dersu Abolfathi, Hannah Hironaka, Eric Yurko	✓	Games with a purpose Luis von Ahn. IEEE Computer, 2006.
8 May		✓	Instrumenting the crowd: using implicit behavioral measures to predict task performance. Jeffrey Rzeszotarski and Aniket Kittur. UIST 2011.
13 May	Design: Design Process Discussants: Ahmed Aljunied, Yinan Na, Giancarlo Daniele, Heidi Wang	✓	Design-oriented human-computer interaction. Fallman, D. CHI 2003.
13 May		✓	Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy Dow S.P, Glassco A., Kass J., Schwarz M., Schwartz D., Klemmer, S. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 11(4), 2010.
15 May	Design: Design Tools Discussants: Andy Elder, Borui Wang, Humin Li, Matthew Alexander	✓	Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis. Björn Hartmann, Scott R Klemmer, Michael Bernstein, Leith Abdulla, Brandon Burr, Avi Robinson-Mosher, and Jennifer Gee. UIST '06.
		✓	Webzeitgeist: Design Mining the Web. Kumar, R., Satyanarayan, A., Torres, C., Lim, M., Ahmad, S., Klemmer, S. R., and Talton, J. O. CHI 2013.
			Pilot Study Exercise at end of class on May 15th
20 May	Programming Discussants: Chloe Yeung, Omosola Odetunde, Elaine Chen	✓	Designing the Whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior. Andrew Ko and Brad Myers. CHI 2004.
20 May			Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment. Brandt, J., Dontcheva, M., Weskamp, M., Klemmer, S.R. CHI 2010.
22 May	Collaboration Discussants: Alice Feng, Clayton Montgomery, Roberto Goizueta	✓	Beyond Being There. Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta. CHI 1992.
22 May			Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes. Tom Erickson and Wendy Kellogg. TOCHI 2000.
27 May	NO CLASS - Memorial Day
29 May	Intelligent User Interfaces Discussants: Daniel Ho, Kyle Dumovic, Stanley Tang	✓	SUPPLE: automatically generating user interfaces. Krzysztof Gajos and Dan Weld. IUI '04.
29 May			Amplifying community content creation with mixed initiative information extraction. Raphael Hoffmann, Saleema Amershi, Kayur Patel, Fei Wu, James Fogarty, and Daniel S. Weld. CHI 2009.
3 Jun	Visualization Discussants: Le Yu, Megan Kanne, Max Meyers	✓	Information Visualization (Ch. 1), Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999, pp. 1 - 34. (FilmFinder video, Treemap video, book website)
3 Jun	Visualization Discussants: Le Yu, Megan Kanne, Max Meyers		Mapping Text with Phrase Nets Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viegas. IEEE InfoVis 2009.
5 June	Attention and Wrap-up Discussants: Lao Thao, Scott Khamphoune, Andrew Dotey, Marie Feng	✓	Cognitive Control in Media Multitaskers. Ophir, E., Nass, C., Wagner, A. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences..
5 June			Models of attention in computing and communication: from principles to applications. Horvitz, E., Kadie, C., Paek, T., Hovel, D. Communications of the ACM 46(3), 2003.
10 June	Project Papers Due at at 7:00am - Submit Online
12 June	Project Presentations · 8:30am – 11:30am, Wallenberg 124