spring 2008

CS376: Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction

Tuesday & Thursday, 12:50PM – 2:05PM, Wallenberg 124

Scott Klemmer, Gates 384, Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:15am - 12:15pm

ta: Joel Brandt, Gates 372, Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30pm - 5:30pm (except May 15 and May 22), and by email appointment

Syllabus · Submit and View Assignments · Grading · Project Information and Ideas · Staff E-mail (cs376@cs)

New: View research project papers and presentations!

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.

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

Course Structure

The course consists of two components: the reading and discussion of research papers, and a quarter-long research project.

For each class period, students will submit short critiques of the assigned readings (submitted online in this format by 7am on the day of class). After 7am on the day of class, all critiques 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, but critiques are only required for those marked on the syllabus.

In addition to critiques, students will be asked to lead one class discussion. For details on how to structure a discussion, go here. On their discussion day, students should submit their materials instead of their critique using the online submission system. The discussant should read all student critiques before class and integrate them into the discussion.

Syllabus

Printed copies of readings through April 8 will be handed out on the first day of class. Readers for the remainder of the course will be available for purchase in class on April 8.

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

Date	Topic	Critique Required?	Readings
1 April	Course Introduction (ppt)
3 April	Seminal Ideas (ppt) Discussant: Neil Patel (ppt)	•	As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
		•	Direct Manipulation Interfaces, Edwin L. Hutchins, James D. Hollan, and Donald A. Norman, Human-Computer Interaction, 1(4), 1985, pp. 311 - 338.
			User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering, Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, ACM Conference on the history of personal workstations, 1986, pp. 183 - 98.
8 April Scott at CHI Fallman visit	CSCW (PDF) Discussant: Amal Dar Aziz (ppt)	•	Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Gary Olson and Judith Olson in Handbook of Applied Cognition, 2007, pp. 497-526.
		•	Beyond Being There, Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta, CHI 1992: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 119 - 25.
			Social, Individual & Technological Issues for Groupware Calendar Systems, Leysia Palen, CHI 1999: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 17 - 24.
10 April Scott at CHI Fallman visit	Ubiquitous Computing (pdf) Discussant: Marcia Lee (ppt)	•	The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94 - 104.
10 April Scott at CHI Fallman visit	Ubiquitous Computing (pdf) Discussant: Marcia Lee (ppt)	•	Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing, Gregory Abowd, Elizabeth Mynatt, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(1), 2000, pp. 29 - 58.
11 April	Research Group Partner Choices Due at 7:00am - Submit Online
15 April	Research (ppt) Discussant: Mike Krieger (ppt)	•	The Science of Design, Herbert A. Simon in The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969, pp. 128-159.
15 April	Research (ppt) Discussant: Mike Krieger (ppt)	•	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ch. 1-4, 9, Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962, pp. 1-42, 92-110.
17 April	Fieldwork (ppt) Discussants: Sara Petry and Jessica Richman (ppt)	•	Situated Actions, Lucy Suchman in Plans and Situated Actions, 1987, pp. 49 - 67.
17 April		•	An Ethnographic Approach to Design, Jeanette Blomberg, Mark Burrell, and Greg Guest, in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J. Jacko, ed., 2003, pp. 964-986.
18 April	Project Abstract Draft Due at 7:00am - Submit Online
22 April	Evaluation (ppt) Discussant: Crystal Fong (pdf)	•	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.
22 April	Evaluation (ppt) Discussant: Crystal Fong (pdf)	•	Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web, Ron Kohavi, Randal Henne, Dan Sommerfield, KDD 2007: ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. TBD.
24 April	Distributed Cognition (ppt) Discussant: Sara Mitchell (ppt)	•	The Power of Representation, Donald Norman in Things that Make Us Smart, 1993, pp. 43 - 76.
24 April	Distributed Cognition (ppt) Discussant: Sara Mitchell (ppt)	•	On Distinguishing Pragmatic from Epistemic Action, David Kirsh and Paul Maglio, Cognitive Science, 1994, pp. 513 - 549.
29 April	Prototyping Discussant: Ryan Park (pdf)	•	What Do Prototypes Prototype?, Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill, in Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (2nd ed.), M. Helander, ed., 1997.
29 April	Prototyping Discussant: Ryan Park (pdf)	•	Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One, Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abigail Sellen CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1243 - 1252.
1 May	Design Tools (ppt) Discussants: Chen Wu and Jae min John (ppt)	•	Sitemaps, storyboards, and specifications: a sketch of Web site design practice, Mark Newman and James Landay, DIS 2000: ACM Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 263 - 274.
1 May			The Designers’ Outpost: A Tangible Interface for Collaborative Web Site Design, Scott R. Klemmer, Mark W. Newman, Ryan Farrell, Mark Bilezikjian, James A. Landay, UIST 2001: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: pp. 1–10. (video)
2 May	Project Abstract Final Due at 7:00am - Submit Online
6 May	Input Techniques (ppt) Discussant: Steve Marmon (pdf)	•	Input Technologies and Techniques, Ken Hinckley, in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J. Jacko, ed., 2007, pp. 161-176.
6 May	Input Techniques (ppt) Discussant: Steve Marmon (pdf)		FlowMenu: Combining Command, Text, and Data Entry, François Guimbretière and Terry Winograd, UIST 2000: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2000, pp. 213 - 216.
8 May	Information Foraging Discussants: Brett Miller and Robert Travis (pdf)	•	Information Foraging, Peter Pirolli and Stuart K. Card, Psychological Review, 106(4), pp. 643 - 675.
8 May			Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing, Ka-Ping Yee, Kisten Swearingen, Kevin Li, Marti Hearst, CHI 2003: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 137 - 146.
13 May	Surface Computing Discussant: YanYan Wang	•	Informing the Design of Direct-Touch Tabletops, Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines, Alan Esenther, Frederic D. Vernier, Katherine Everitt, Mike Wu, Daniel Wigdor, Meredith Ringel Morris, Mark Hancock, Edward Tse, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 26(5), September 2006, pp. 36-46.
13 May	Surface Computing Discussant: YanYan Wang		Interactive Public Ambient Displays: Transitioning from Implicit to Explicit, Public to Personal, Interaction with Multiple Users, Daniel Vogel, Ravin Balakrishnan. UIST 2004: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 137 - 146.
15 May	Adaptive Interfaces (ppt) Discussants: Tony Ricciardi and Jason Robinson (pdf)	•	User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction, Gerhard Fischer, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 11, 2001, pp. 68 - 86.
15 May			Recommender Systems, Paul Resnick, Hal R. Varian, Communications of the ACM, 40(3), March 1997, pp. 56-58.
20 May Shneiderman visit	Information Visualization (ppt) Discussants: Leslie Wu and Loren Yu (ppt)	•	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)
20 May Shneiderman visit			Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, CHI 2007: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1029 - 1038.
22 May	Speech & Multimodal (ppt) Discussants: Neema Moraveji and Michael Smith	•	Multimodal Interfaces, Sharon Oviatt, in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J. Jacko, ed., Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003, pp. 286-304.
22 May			Designing SpeechActs: Issues in Speech User Interfaces, Nicole Yankelovich, Gian-Anne Levow, Matt Marx, CHI 1995: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 369 - 376.
27 May Ishii visit	Tangible and Haptic Interaction (ppt) Discussant: William Choi (pdf)	•	Getting in Touch, Paul Dourish in Where the Action Is, pp. 25-54
27 May Ishii visit			Haptic Techniques for Media Control, Scott S. Snibbe, Karon E. MacLean, Rob Shaw, Jayne Roderick, William L. Verplank, Mark Scheeff, UIST 2001: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 199-208.
28 May	Project Progress Meetings with Staff - Schedule TBD
29 May	Augmented Reality Discussants: Greg Schwartz and Andrew Wong (ppt)	•	Reinventing the Familiar: Exploring an Augmented Reality Design Space for Air Traffic Control, Wendy E. Mackay, Anne-Laure Fayard, Laurent Frobert and Lionel Médini, CHI 1998: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 558 - 565.
29 May			A Real Little Game: The Performance of Belief in Pervasive Play, Jane McGonigal. DiGRA 2003: Digital Games Research Association Level Up Conference.
3 June	Software Tools and I/O Toolkits(ppt) Discussants: Sudheendra Hangal, Nicholas Briggs and Michael Fischer (ppt)	•	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.
			Automation and customization of rendered web pages, Michael Bolin, Matthew Webber, Philip Rha, Tom Wilson and Robert C. Miller, UIST 2005: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, March 2005, pp. 163 - 172.
			Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis, Björn Hartmann, Scott R. Klemmer, Michael Bernstein, Leith Abdulla, Brandon Burr, Avi Robinson-Mosher, Jennifer Gee, UIST 2006: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
			A Design Tool for Camera-based Interaction, Jerry Alan Fails and Dan R. Olsen, CHI 2003: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 449 - 56.
10 June	Class Project Presentations, 1:00pm - 3:30pm, Wallenberg 124
12 June	Project Papers Due at 7:00am - Submit Online