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CS 420 / CS 620 Human-Computer Interaction. Fall 2008 Course Syllabus August 25, 2008. Outline. The instructor The students The course The texts Initial web pointers Grading schemes Policies Tentative schedule. The Instructor. Sergiu Dascalu Room SEM-236 Telephone 784-4613
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CS 420 / CS 620Human-Computer Interaction Fall 2008 Course Syllabus August 25, 2008
Outline • The instructor • The students • The course • The texts • Initial web pointers • Grading schemes • Policies • Tentative schedule
The Instructor. • Sergiu Dascalu • Room SEM-236 • Telephone 784-4613 • E-mail dascalus@cse.unr.edu • Web-sitewww.cse.unr.edu/~dascalus • Office hours: • T 3:00 – 4:00 (general) • W 5:30 – 6:30 (grad students)
.The Instructor • Sergiu Dascalu • PhD, Dalhousie U., Halifax, NS, Canada, 2001 • Teaching and research at UNR, 2002-present (software engineering, HCI) • Teaching and research at Dalhousie University, 1993-2001 (software engineering focus) • Teaching and research at University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania, 1984-1995 (real-time systems focus) • Consultant for software development companies in Canada and Romania
The Students Registered: 11graduate students + 19 undergrad students Prerequisite: CS 302
The Course • Classroom: SEM-347 MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm • Catalog description: Usability goals, design principles, design processes, prototyping, interface metaphors, interaction styles, interaction devices, software tools, evaluation paradigms and techniques, user manuals, collaborative work, information visualization. Prerequisite: CS 302 Data Structures.
The Texts. • Required textbook: Steven Heim, The Resonant Interface: HCI Foundations for Interaction Design, Addison-Wesley, 2007; ISBN 0-321-37596-4 Recommended textbook: David Benyon, Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts, and Technologies, Addison-Wesley, 2005. ISBN: 0-321-11629-1
.The Texts • Lecture notes: • Presentations by the instructor • Notes you take in the classroom • Additional texts (grad students only; see examples on slides 18-20) • Material (papers, tutorials, etc.) that will be indicated later by the instructor
Initial WWW Pointers • Required textbook’s website (Heim, 2007) http://aw.com/heim • Recommended textbook’s website (Benyon et al, 2005): http://www.booksites.net/benyon/ • Gary Perlman’s HCI bibliography: http://hcibib.org/
Grading Scheme.. • Grading scheme for CS 420 students: • Assignments (3) 15% • Presentations (1) 7% • Midterm tests (2) 32% • Project (3) 40% • Class participation 6% • TOTAL 100%
.Grading Scheme. • Grading scheme for CS 620 students NOTE: More details on differences between course requirements and opportunities CS620 vs. CS420 are available in the syllabus handout of August 25, 2007. • Assignments (2) 8% • Essay (1) 7% • Presentations (2) 10% • Midterm tests (2) 30% • Project & Paper (4) 40% • Class participation 5% • TOTAL 100%
..Grading Scheme • Passing conditions (all must be met): • 50% overall & • 50% in tests & • 50% in project [and paper] & • 50% in assignments, presentations, and class participation • For grade A: at least 90% overall, at least 90% in class participation, and at least 60% in test; significant lack of class participation will significantly affect the overall grade for the course • Note that there are no make-up tests or homework in this course
Grading Scale • Numerical-letter grade correspondence • A 90 -100 [maximum 100] • A- 87 - 89 • B+ 83 - 86 • B 78 - 82 • B- 75 - 77 • C+ 71 - 74 • C 66 - 70 • C- 63 - 65 • D+ 60 - 62 • D 55 - 59 • D- 50 - 54 • F < 50
Policies… • Late submission policy: • Maximum 2 late days per assignment/project deliverable • Each late day penalized with 10% • No subdivision of late days • No late days for presentations and test • Example: a 90/100 worth assignment gets 81/100 if one day late (90*0.9 = 81) or 72/100 if two days late (90*0.8 = 72)
.Policies.. • Legal notices on the world-wide web: Read and comply with accompanying legal notices of downloadable material • Specify references used • Do not plagiarize (see next slide)
..Policies. • Plagiarism and cheating: Will not be tolerated. Please read the policies of University of Nevada, Reno regarding academic dishonesty: www.unr.edu/stsv/acdispol.html
…Policies • Disability Statement: If you have a disability for which you will need to request accommodations, please contact me or someone at the Disability Resource Center (Thompson Student Services - 107), as soon as possible.
Additional Texts.. • Each graduate student will deliver an essay and presentation based on additional reading texts such as: 1 Don A. Norman, The Design Of Everyday Things 2 Don A. Norman, Emotional Design 3 Steven Krug, Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability 4 Carolyn Snyder, Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Refine User Interfaces 5 Mike Kuniavsky, Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
.Additional Texts. 6 B.J. Fogg, Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think We Do 7 Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems 8 Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski, Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology 9 Jeff Johnson, GUI Bloopers: Don’ts and Do’s for Software Developers and Web Designers 10 Karen Donahue, Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience
..Additional Texts 11 Joel Spolsky, User-Interface Design for Programmers 12 Ben Shneiderman, Leonardo’s Laptop 13 Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala, Windows and Mirrors : Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency 14 Nathan Shedroff, Experience Design 1 15 Eric Begnan (editor), Information Appliances and Beyond 16 Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
Next Classes • WED Aug 27: Usability study by Juan Quiroz, PhD candidate • WED Sep 03: Students’ introduction (be prepared to talk about 1 minute about yourself) & HCI videos.