CS376 - Human-Computer Interaction Research

Syllabus

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Date	Topic	Readings
Week 1
Sep 26	Intro: Ubiquitous Computing Discussants: Jane E and Katie Cheng	The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104
Sep 28	Class Application due at 11:59pm
Sep 28	Intro: Social + Crowd Computing —What is (And Isn't) HCI Research	Labeling Images with a Computer Game, Luis von Ahn, Laura Dabbish, CHI 2004 Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use, Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, CHI 2014
Sep 30	Project Ideas Brainstorm (Round One)
Week 2
Oct 3	Intro: Design & Creation Round One Feedback Discussants: Ludwig Shubert and Courtney Noh	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
Oct 5	Social: Social computing Discussants: Robert Fearon and Veronica Lin	Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities, Gerard Beenen, Kimberly Ling, Xiaoquin Wang, Klarissa Chang, Dan Frankowski, CSCW 2004 Beyond Being There, Jim Hollan, CHI 1992
Oct 7	Project Ideas Brainstorm (Round Two)
Week 3
Oct 10	Social: Crowdsourcing Discussants: Audrey Proulx and Kush Nijhawan	He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia, Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton, Ed Chi, CHI 2007 Expert Crowdsourcing with Flash Teams, Daniela Retelny, Sebastien Robaszkiewicz, Alexandra To, Michael Bernstein, CHI 2014
Oct 12	Human Robot Interaction - (Wendy Ju) (Michael at UIST) Discussants: Jonathan Leung and Kyle Qian	Effects of nonverbal communication on efficiency and robustness in human-robot teamwork, Breazeal, C., Kidd, C.D., Thomaz, A.L., Hoffman, G. and Berlin, M., IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005, pp. 708-713 Pay attention!: designing adaptive agents that monitor and improve user engagement, Daniel Szafir, Bilge Mutlu, CHI 2012
Oct 14	Project Abstract
Week 4
Oct 17	Research Methods Discussants: Griffin Dietz and Bradley Reyes	Methodology Matters, Joseph McGrath, Human-computer interaction, 1994
Oct 19	Computational Social Science - (Jeff Hancock) Discussants: Ian Proulx and Peter Washington	Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks, Adam Kramer, Jamie Guillory, Jeffrey Hancock, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 Predicting Tie Strength With Social Media, Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, CHI 2009
Oct 21	Project Abstract Revision
	Please sign up for Project Progress Meetings
Week 5
Oct 24	Ubicomp: Pervasive Discussants: Emily Xie and Tamara Prstic	Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden, Consolvo et al, CHI 2008 KinectFusion: real-time 3D reconstruction and interaction using a moving depth camera, Izadi et al, UIST 2011
Oct 26	Ubicomp: Input Discussants: Peter Ballmer and Nathalia Scrimshaw	Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms, Hiroshi Ishii, Brygg Ullmer, CHI 97 Touché: enhancing touch interaction on humans, screens, liquids, and everyday objects, Munehiko Sato, Ivan Poupyrev, Chris Harrison, CHI 2012
Week 6
Oct 31	Design: Design Process Discussants: Ashley Westhem and Da Eun Kim	Quantifying Visual Preferences Around the World, Katharina Reinecke, Krzysztof Gajos, CHI 2014 Participatory Design, Michael Muller, Communications of the ACM, June 1993
Nov 2	Design: Design Tools Discussants: Danae Metaxa and William Kim	SILK: sketching interfaces like krazy, James Landay, CHI 96 ERICA: Interaction Mining Mobile Apps, Biplab Deka, Zifeng Huang, Ranjitha Kumar, UIST 2016
Nov 2	Project Fair (Round One) at end of class
Week 7
Nov 7	Research Analysis	Methods Exercises (Solutions)
Nov 9	Foundations Discussants: Ramon Flores, Emily Tang and Gavin Nelson	As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945 The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (Chapter 2: The Human-Information Processor), Stuart Card, Thomas Moran, Allen Newell, 1983
Week 8
Nov 14	Programming Discussants: Christina Gilbert and Mathieu Rolfo	Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior, Andrew Ko, Brad Myers, CHI 2004 Codeopticon: Real-Time, One-To-Many Human Tutoring for Computer Programming, Philip Guo, UIST 2015
Nov 16	Collaboration Discussants: Dennis Jeong and Lucio Tan	Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes, Thomas Erickson, Wendy Kellogg, TOCHI 2000 Physical telepresence: shape capture and display for embodied, computer-mediated remote collaboration, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Alex Olwal, Hiroshi Ishii, UIST 2014
Thanksgiving Break
Nov 21	No class
Nov 23	No class
Week 9
Nov 28	Creativity Discussants: Musila Munuve and Varis Niwatsakul	Content-based tools for editing audio stories, Steve Rubin, Floraine Berthouzoz, Gautham Mysore, Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala, UIST 2013 Why it works (when it works): Success factors in online creative collaboration, Kurt Luther, Kelly Caine, Kevin Ziegler, Amy Bruckman, GROUP 2010
Nov 28	Project Fair (Round Two) at end of class
Nov 30	No class
Week 10
Dec 5	Visualization Discussants: Ranjay Krishna and Stephen Aman	Information Visualization (Chapter 1), Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, Ben Schneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, 1999, pp. 1-34. Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, CHI 2010
Dec 7	Critiques of HCI Discussants: Alona King and David Kahn	Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development, Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, Rebecca Grinter, CHI 2010 Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision, Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish, UbiComp 2006
Finals Week
Dec 15	Project Paper and Talk due Thursday, Dec 15th 3:30-6:30pm CERAS 101

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