January 5

Lecture: Course Introduction [Terry]

Assign: P1: Thoughtless Acts

Lecture: Intro to Idea Logs, Sketching, and Storyboards [Bill]

Assign: Idea Logs

Read: What's an Idea Log?

January 6 (CS247L)

CS247L: Sketching [Bill]

January 7

Studio: P1 discussion in sections
Due: P1 Commented Pictures

Assign: P2: Observing People at Play

Form teams for P2

Read: Suri excerpts, Thoughtless acts site, d.school on observing

Studio: Kristian Simsarian (IDEO) - workshop on observations and bodystorming - see his slides

Due: P2 Observations

Reading: The Roles of Role Playing in the Design Process

January 13 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Mechanical Prototyping [Hayes]

Studio: Skit presentations and discussion

Due: P2 Skits

Assign P3: Indivdual interaction exercise, Processing/Arduino Setup, Starter code
P3: Grading rubric , How to submit

January 19

Lecture: Toys & Play [Hayes]

Show and Tell: Interaction devices [Bill]

Studio: Review Idea logs (in section)

Due: Idea Logs

Assign: P4 Project: Toys for Learning

Form Teams and provide user contacts

January 20 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Intro to Arduino [Akshay]

January 21

Show and Tell: Conceptual models [Terry]

Studio: Critique Interaction exercise in class
Due: P3 indivdual interaction exercise

Do: Improv exercise in class

January 26

Studio: Idea generation studio on initial ideas
Due: Observations, research for project

Read: D.school handouts on synthesizing, Brainstorming and POV.

Assign: Brainstorming for Thursday

January 27 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Connecting to Arduinos with Processing [Akshay]

Alternative: Flex (by the Adobe people)

January 28

Show and Tell: Conceptual models [Terry]

Studio: Low fidelity prototyping exercise using their project
Due: Brainstorm ideas

Read: D.school on prototyping

February 2

Speaker: Adam Skaates, Ideo Toy Lab

Due by email in advance: Milestone proposal, Individual Goals

Studio: discuss proposals with teams.

Bring in Coaches, including evening session.

February 3 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Soldering & Electronics [Bill]

February 4

Show and Tell: Tinkering GeverTully

Team process

Due: First Design Iteration

February 9

Speaker: Bean (Tina Blaine)

Studio: Visual/Physical Design Critique
Due: Visual/Physical Design ideas - Idea logs

February 10 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Alternatives for next 3 weeks

• Wii [??]
• Buglabs [David Vondle?]
• iPhone [??]

February 11

Show and Tell: Social play [Hayes, Neema]

Studio

Due: Design Iteration

February 16

Speaker: Will Wright on the design of games

Read: ??

February 17 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

February 18

Studio:
Due: Revised milestones.

Bring in Coaches

February 23

Speaker: Interactive Spaces for learning [Scott Snibbe]

Studio: Exercise on testing [Terry]
Due: Test results

February 24 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

February 25

Do: studio

Do: Split into small groups and present idea logs for feedback

Due: Idea Log

March 2

Studio / Possible speaker

Mix and match student team presentations

March 3 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

March 4

Studio

Bring in outside critics?

March 9

Studio: Exercise on presentations
Due: 2nd User Test Results

Bring in coaches

March 10 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

March 11

Present: 1 minute pitch + 5 minute demonstration of your team's prototype and test results

Due: Refined Prototype and User Test Results Writeup (turned in)

Individual team evaluations due by thurs March 18.