CS147: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design

Syllabus & Readings · Studio Times · Experimental Participation · Final Project · FAQs · Resources

The theme for this year's interaction design project is “mobile”; within that theme, students have a choice of three project briefs to start from:

Food

Remembering

Place

 

syllabus & readings

Each lecture has a reading associated with it. Please skim the readings before lectures, and use them as a study guide when preparing for the exam in Week 8. The readings should also be helpful as reference materials for the main project, and beyond this class.

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studio times

requirements & grading

Prerequisites: CS106B or equivalent programming experience is a corequisite for this course. This corequisite is not enforced, but is in place because we would like students to have some fluency in building interactive systems. The only assignments that will require programming will be those that are part of the group project. As such, students with less programming experience should consider partnering with students who are stronger in this area. All students are expected to contribute equally to the project. That said, some may do more of the programming work, and others more of the user testing work (every student should do at least some of the implementation work).

Additionally, we presume that all students will have access to a digital camera for use in assignments.

Attendance and participation at weekly studios is mandatory.

Grading: Each assignment is graded out of a set amount of points (these can be seen on each assignment's page). These points add up to 800. Additionally, the examination (Week 8) is graded out of 150 points, and class/studio participation is graded out of 50 points, for a total of 1000 points in the course.

Experimental Participation (Pass/Incomplete): Students are required to participate as subjects in HCI research experiments for 4-units of credit (roughly 4 hours) during the quarter, regardless of the number of units being received for the course. Students who do not complete this requirement will be given an incomplete. Sign up for studies on CHIME, and be sure to select CS147-Fall-08 as the course you're taking the quarter, in order to filter for studies that qualify for experimental participation for this course.

Credit/No credit: Students registered for the class will receive a letter grade—the "credit/no credit" option is not available.

late work & absence policy

Attendance of all studios is mandatory. If you have to miss a studio, you must let your studio leader know in advance, and receive an acknowledgment from the studio leader. You are allowed one excused absence (i.e. reported and acknowledged) for the quarter without penalty; thereafter you will receive zero credit for the missed studio.

No late assignments will be accepted, but you may submit them early.

The participation grade will consider both lecture and studio participation.

regrade policy

We are willing to consider regrades on assignments, but reserve the right to regrade the entire assignment when a regrade is requested. To make a regrade request, please see one of the course staff at her or his office hours.

thanks

To Nokia for providing N95 handsets and technical support, Adobe for support and for software, and Dean Eckles in providing Flash Lite tutorials.