Syllabus

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Date Topic Readings
March 31 Foundations As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.

Class Application due at 11:59pm

April 2 Ubiquitous Computing
Discussants: Jimmy Lee, Jessica Liu, Nicole Zhu
The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94 - 104.
inFORM: Dynamic Physical Affordances and Constraints through Shape and Object Actuation, Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Akimitsu Hogge, Hiroshi Ishii. UIST 2013. (Video)
April 4

Project Ideas (Round One) due at 1:15pm - Submit Online

April 7 Social Computing
Discussants: Negar Rahmati, Niloufar Salehi, Alexandra To
Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities , Gerard Beenen, Kimberly Ling, Xiaoquin Wang, Klarissa Chang, Dan Frankowski. CSCW 2004.
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.
April 9 Design & Creation
Discussants: Jorge Aguirre, Jess Peterson, Janhavi Vartak, Simon Zheng
Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One, Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abigail Sellen CHI 2006.
Webzeitgeist: Design Mining the Web. Ranjitha Kumar, Arvind Satyanarayan, Cesar Torres, Maxine Lim, Salman Ahmad, Scott R. Klemmer, Jerry O. Talton.CHI 2013.
April 11

Project Ideas (Round Two) due at 1:15pm - Submit Online
Project Partners due at 1.15pm (Looking for teammates?)

April 14 Pervasive
Discussants: Christina Kao, Kai-Yuan Neo, Sophia Nguyen, Adam Raudonis
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.
Humantenna: Using the Body as an Antenna for Real-Time Whole-Body Interaction Gabe Cohn, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel, Desney S. Tan. CHI 2012.
April 16 Input
Discussants: Roger Chen, Carey Phelps, Stephen Quinonez
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.
Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface, Chris Harrison, Desney Tan, and Dan Morris. CHI 2010.
Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved, Bill Buxton.
April 18

Project Abstract Draft due at 1:15pm - Submit Online

April 21 Social Computing
Discussants: Jesse Clayburgh, Peter Doyle, Catherine Mullings, Miraj Rahematpura
Growing Closer on Facebook: Changes in Tie Strength Through Site Use. Moira Burke and Robert Kraut. CHI 2014.
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine. Damon Horowitz and Sepandar D. Kamvar. WWW 2010.
April 23 Crowdsourcing
Discussants: Alexander Hsu, Vivian Shen, John Wu, Lilith Wu
Games with a purpose Luis von Ahn. IEEE Computer, 2006.
Real-Time Captioning by Groups of Non-Experts. Walter S. Lasecki, Christopher D. Miller, Adam Sadilek, Andrew Abumoussa, Donato Borrello, Raja Kushalnagar, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. UIST 2012.
April 25

Project Abstract Revision due at 1:15pm - Submit Online

Please sign up for Project Progress Meetings.

April 28 Models
Guest Host: Jeff Shrager
(Michael at CHI)

Discussants: Ted Kim, Miguel Montemayor, Kennan Murphy-Sierra
Exploring and Finding Information. Peter Pirolli. Chapter 7: HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks.
User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering. Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran. ACM conference on the history of personal workstations 1986.
April 30 Global Citizenship
Guest Host: Terry Winograd (Michael at CHI)
Discussants: Chiara Hordatt Brosco, Kamakshi Duvvuru, Daniel Liem
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.
May 5 Design Process
Discussants: Mathan Glezer, Yuqi Liu, Sathish Nagappan, Emily Schneider
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.
Peer and Self Assessment in Massive Online Classes. Chinmay Kulkarni, Koh Pang Wei, Huy Le, Daniel Chia, Kathryn Papadopoulos, Justin Cheng, Daphne Koller, Scott R. Klemmer. ToCHI 2013.
May 7 Design Tools
Discussants: Ye (Scott) Cheng, David Chiem, Leo Rong
Midas: fabricating custom capacitive touch sensors to prototype interactive objects Valkyrie Savage, Xiaohan Zhang, Björn Hartmann. UIST 2012.
Voyant: Generating Structured Feedback on Visual Designs Using a Crowd of Non-Experts. Anbang Xu, Shih-Wen Huang, Brian P. Bailey. CSCW 2014.

Project Faire (Round One) at end of class - Submit Online

May 12 Research
Discussants: Daniel Haarburger, Conner Jevning, Justin Womersley
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
May 14 Methods
Discussants: Ai Jiang, Jack Reidy, Rob Semmens
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.
Creative Hypothesis Generating in Psychology: Some Useful Heuristics, McGuire, W.J., Annual Review of Psychology, 48(1), 1-30.
May 19 Programming
Discussants: William Chidyausiku, Alexander Embiricos, Guoxing Li
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.
Emergent, Crowd-scale Programming Practice in the IDE. Ethan Fast, Daniel Steffee, Lucy Wang, Joel Brandt, Michael S. Bernstein. CHI 2014.
May 21 Collaboration
Discussants: Jare Fagbemi, Haley Kong, Andrew Liu, Ranajay Sen
Beyond Being There. Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta. CHI 1992.
Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes. Tom Erickson and Wendy Kellogg. TOCHI 2000.

Project Faire (Round Two) at end of class - Submit Online

May 26 NO CLASS - Memorial Day
May 28 Intelligent User Interfaces
Discussants: Joseph Baena, Wending Lu, Angela Yeung, YiTao Zhang
Predicting human interruptibility with sensors. James Fogarty, Scott E. Hudson, Christopher G. Atkeson, Daniel Avrahami, Jodi Forlizzi, Sara Kiesler, Johnny C. Lee, Jie Yang.ToCHI 2005.
Structured Labeling to Facilitate Concept Evolution in Machine Learning. Todd Kulesza, Saleema Amershi, Rich Caruana, Danyel Fisher, Denis Charles. CHI 2014.
June 2 Visualization
Discussants: Saguna Goel, Luke Knepper, Amanda Lin
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)
Mapping Text with Phrase Nets Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viegas. IEEE InfoVis 2009.
June 4 Creativity
and
Wrap-up
Discussants: Chen-Tai Kao, Trevor Pels, Thomas Schmidt, Sarah Sterman
Let's Get Together: The Formation and Success of Online Creative Collaborations. Burr Settles and Steven Dow. CHI 2013.
Ensemble: Exploring Complementary Strengths of Leaders and Crowds in Creative Collaboration . Joy Kim, Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein. CSCW 2014.
June 4

Project Papers due at at 11:59pm - Submit Online

June 6

Project Presentations · 8:30am – 11:30am, Littlefield 107


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