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]

• Slides without movies (1.3mb)
• With movies (126mb)

Show and Tell: Interaction devices [Bill]

Studio: Review Idea logs (in section)

Due: Idea Logs

January 20 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Intro to Arduino [Akshay]

January 21

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

Assign: P4 Project: Toys for Learning

Form Teams and start user site contacts

January 26

Studio: Idea generation

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

January 27 (CS247L)

CS 247L: More on Arduinos and Processing [Akshay]

January 28

Show and Tell: Conceptual models and metaphors [Terry and Bill]

• slides

Studio: Project status and develop plan
Due: Report on site visit

Read: D.school on prototyping

February 2

Speaker: Adam Skaates, Ideo Toy Lab

Slides on line

Studio

February 3 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Meeting with coaches (for all who can come)

February 4

Studio:

Due: First Design Iteration

February 9

Speaker: Bean (Tina Blaine)

Team process workshop: Julian Gorodsky (d.school)

February 10 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Magic Box [Bill & Hayes]

February 11

Show and Tell: Social play [Hayes, Neema Morajevi]

Studio:

Due: Design Iteration

February 16

Speaker: Jim Grey (Leapfrog)

Studio

February 17 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

February 18

Speaker: Gever Tully, Tinkering

Studio:
Due: Design Iteration.

February 23

Speaker: Interactive Spaces for learning [Scott Snibbe]

Slides: Immersive Social Media
Projects: at Snibbe.com
Paper with Hayes at CHI 2009

Studio

February 24 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

February 25

Studio

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

Due: Idea Log for review

March 2

Studio

Mix and match student team presentations

March 3 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

March 4

Studio

Due: User Test Results

March 9

Studio: Exercise on presentations

See FINAL REQIREMENTS HANDOUT

March 10 (CS247L)

CS 247L: Student-Driven

March 11

Present: 1 minute pitch + 5 minute demonstration of your team's prototype and test results (you still can improve the prototype more before Monday)

Due: Refined Prototype and short presentation

CS247 Final Project Fair

Wallenberg Hall, Monday March 15th

6:30 - 7 pm, food

7 - 7:45 pm, 1 minute presentations by group

7:45 - 9:00 pm, demos & posters

Invite your friends and family!

Please feel free to e-mail us at cs247-win0910-staff@lists.stanford.edu if you have any questions.