CS376 - Human-Computer Interaction Research

Syllabus

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Date	Topic	Readings
Week 1
Sep 25	Class Welcome and Intro: Interaction	The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104
Sep 26	Class Application due at 11:59pm
Sep 27	Intro: Social + Crowd Computing —What is (And Isn't) HCI Research Discussants: Michelle Lam and Junwon Park	Labeling Images with a Computer Game, Luis von Ahn, Laura Dabbish, CHI 2004 Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem Through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter, Kate Starbird, ICWSM 2017
Sep 28	Project Ideas Brainstorm (Round One)
Week 2
Oct 2	Intro: Design Round One Feedback Discussants: Jackie Yang	User-defined gestures for surface computing, Jacob Wobbrock, Meredith Morris, Andrew Wilson, CHI 2009 Quantifying visual preferences around the world, Katharina Reinecke, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, CHI 2014
Oct 4	Interaction: User Interface Technology Discussants: Po Tsui	Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms, Hiroshi Ishii, Brygg Ullmer, CHI 1997 Zooids: Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces, Mathieu Le Goc, Lawrence H. Kim, Ali Parsaei, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Pierre Dragicevic, Sean Follmer, UIST 2016
Oct 5	Project Ideas Brainstorm (Round Two)
Week 3
Oct 9	Interaction: Ubicomp Discussants: Catherine Xu	Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden, Sunny Consolvo et al, CHI 2008 CrossCheck: Toward passive sensing and detection of mental health changes in people with schizophrenia, Rui Wang et al, CHI 2014
Oct 11	Social: Social Computing Discussants: Tiffany Hsu	Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities, Gerard Beenen et al, CSCW 2004 Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use, Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, CHI 2014
Oct 12	Project Abstract
Week 4
Oct 16	Michael at UIST (Pablo Paredes leading) Discussants: Hilary Sun	Fast & Furious: Detecting Stress with a Car Steering Wheel, Pablo Paredes et al, CHI 2018 PopTherapy: coping with stress through pop-culture, Pablo Paredes et al, PervasiveHealth 2014
Oct 18	Social - Crowdsourcing Discussants: Radha Jain	He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia, Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Bryan A. Pendleton, Ed H. Chi, CHI 2007 Flash Organizations: Crowdsourcing Complex Work by Structuring Crowds As Organizations, Melissa A. Valentine et al, CHI 2017
Oct 19	Project Abstract Revision
Week 5
Oct 23	Design: Design Process Discussants: Bryce Tham	Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy, Steven P. Dow et al, TOCHI 2010 Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues with GenderMag: A Field Investigation, Margaret Burnett et al, CHI 2016
Oct 25	Design: Design Tools Discussants: Elyse Chase	Design as exploration: creating interface alternatives through parallel authoring and runtime tuning, Björn Hartmann et al, UIST 2008 Learning Visual Importance for Graphic Designs and Data Visualizations, Zoya Bylinskii, UIST 2017
Week 6
Oct 30	AI + HCI Discussants: Riley DeHaan	Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces, Eric Horvitz, CHI 1999 The Elemets of Fashion Style, Kristen Vaccaro et al, UIST 2016
Nov 1	Media and creativity Discussants: Eric Gonzalez	Draco: bringing life to illustrations with kinetic textures, Rubaiat Habib Kazi et al, CHI 2014 Computational Video Editing for Dialogue-Driven Scenes, Mackenzie Leake et al, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2017
Nov 1	Project Fair (Round One) at end of class
Week 7
Nov 6	Michael at CSCW (Jeff Hancock leading) Discussants: So Yeon Park	Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks, Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock, PNAS 2014 What's the Folk Theory? Reasoning About Cyber-Social Systems, Megan French and Jeff Hancock, SSRN 2017
Nov 8	Foundations Discussants: Minh-An Quinn	As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945 The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (Chapter 2: The Human-Information Processor), Stuart Card, Thomas Moran, Allen Newell, 1983
Week 8
Nov 13	Accessibility and Access Discussants: Santiago Gutierrez	Improving the performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces, Krzysztof Z. Gajos et al, CHI 2008 Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users, Indrani Medhi et al, TOCHI 2011
Nov 15	Programming Discussants: Punya Chatterjee	Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior, Amy J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, CHI 2004 Visualizing API Usage Examples at Scale, Elena L. Glassman et al, CHI 2018
Nov 15	Statistics Tutorial after class 6pm-7pm in Littlefield 103 slides part 1 slides part 2 exercises exercise data exercise solutions (jupyter + rpy2, as ipynb) exercise solutions (jupyter + rpy2, as html) exercise solutions (R, as html)
Thanksgiving Break
Nov 20	No class
Nov 22	No class
Week 9
Nov 27	Collaboration Discussants: Genevieve Payzer and Jack Gartland	Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, TOCHI 2000 In Search of the Dream Team: Temporally Constrained Multi-Armed Bandits for Identifying Effective Team Structures, Sharon Zhou, Melissa Valentine, Michael Bernstein, CHI 2018
Nov 29	Visualization Discussants: Gracie Young and Jenny Kim	Information Visualization (Chapter 1), Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, Ben Schneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, 1999, pp. 1-34. Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics, Arvind Satyanarayan et al, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2017
Nov 29	Project Fair (Round Two) at end of class
Week 10
	Critiques of HCI Discussants: Ana Saavedra, Alejandrina Gonzalez Reyes, Hillary Hermawan and Caillin Campbell	Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development, Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, Rebecca Grinter, CHI 2010 Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision, Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish, UbiComp 2006
Dec 6	Project Presentation is during class on Thursday, Dec 6th 4:30-5:50pm Littlefield 107
Finals Week
Dec 14	Project Paper is due on 11:59pm Friday, Dec 14th

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