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.
 

Requirements & Grading

50% A quarter-long mini-research project. Students are encouraged to work in pairs or groups, and to choose projects that are related to their research. The final paper should be four pages long in the CHI format (or six pages long in the extended abstracts format), and is due December 12th at 9:00am. The final presentations will be in Gates B12 from 1:00-3:30pm.

25% Paper critiques. Students should submit short critiques of each reading to cs376(at)cs.stanford.edu. Critiques are due by 6:00am the day of class; late critiques will not be accepted. Each student may opt to pass on two days of critiques for any reason (personal or family matters, conflicting deadlines, etc.); there are no exemptions beyond this.

25% Class participation, leading one class discussion