Instructor: Nicki Dell, nixdell [at] cornell.edu (please use slack instead of email if at all reasonable!)
Full-time TA: Rama Adithya Varanasi (rv288 [at] cornell.edu)
Part-time TAs: Gautam Chheda (gc463 [at] cornell.edu), Noshin Nisa (nan42 [at] cornell.edu), Utsav Vakil (uuv2 [at] cornell.edu), Juechi (Joyce) Zhou (jz762 [at] cornell.edu).
Course slack channel: hci-2018.slack.com (sign up here with your Cornell email address)
Lecture
Tuesday/Thursday 1:55pm-3.10pm, Bloomberg 131
Nobody wants to listen to me talk for the whole lecture. Most days, we will break up the class as follows:
First ~5 mins: Short questions on the assigned reading (to be turned in)
Next ~30 mins: Lecture
Last ~40 mins: Hands-on practice(to be turned in)
Office Hours
Nicki: Tuesday 1pm-1:55pm; Thursday 3.15-4pm, Bloomberg 263
Rama: Wednesday/Friday 3-4pm, Room 179 in the Masters studio
Grading (subject to change if necessary)
Assignments: 50%, Reading Questions: 25%, Hands-on Activities: 25%
Schedule (subject to change if necessary)
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1/25 |
Course introduction |
Where are you headed? |
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1/30 |
Design of Everyday Things |
The Design of Everyday Things |
Hall of fame and shame |
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2/1 |
Survey Design |
Take and critique a survey, design your own survey |
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2/6 |
Qualitative Interviews and Focus Groups |
1. Qualitative Interview Design: A Practical Guide for Novice Investigators |
Create and conduct a qualitative interview |
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2/8 |
Contextual Enquiry |
Practice a mini contextual enquiry |
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2/13 |
Analyzing Qualitative Data |
Practice qualitative coding |
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2/15 |
Personas |
Practice developing personas |
A1 due |
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2/20 |
NO CLASS - February Break |
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2/22 |
User Stories |
1. From Personas to User Stories |
Construct user stories from data |
Sprint 1 |
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2/27 |
Storyboarding |
Practice storyboarding |
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3/1 |
Paper Prototyping |
Practice paper prototyping |
A2 due |
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3/6 |
High-fidelity Prototyping |
Practice prototyping |
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3/8 |
Hierarchy, Patterns, and Components |
Required: Material Design: Everything you need to know |
Deconstruct an app into patterns |
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3/13 |
Color and Typography |
1. Typography in UI: Guide for Beginners |
Play with color palettes |
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3/15 |
Digital Prototyping Workshop |
Practice digital prototyping |
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3/20 |
Prototyping for AR and VR |
Prototype an interface for a VR or AR application |
A3 due; |
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3/22 |
Designing for Disabled People |
Explore acessibility features |
Sprint 2 |
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3/27 |
Web Accessibility |
Evaluate a website for web accessibility |
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3/29 |
Designing for Marginalized Communities |
Prototype a text-free application |
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4/3 |
NO CLASS - Spring Break |
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4/5 |
NO CLASS - Spring Break |
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4/10 |
Bias and Ethics in HCI |
Experiment with different types of bias |
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4/12 |
Usability |
Practice evaluating usability |
A4 due |
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4/17 |
Heuristic Evaluation |
1. How to conduct a heuristic evaluation |
Practice heuristic evaluation |
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4/19 |
AB Experiments |
Design an A/B test |
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4/24 |
Class canceled: Nicki traveling |
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4/26 |
Guest lecture: Raymond Lutzky |
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5/1 |
Experiment Design |
Practice designing controlled experiments |
A5 due |
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5/3 |
Discuss some of Nicki's research |
Course Evaluations |
Sprint 3 |
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5/8 |
Wrap-up and Reflection |
Party |
Devices in Class
We will use smartphones and laptops to facilitate hands-on activities and work in-class. However, research and student feedback clearly shows that using devices on non-class related activities harms my teaching, your own learning, and other students' learning as well. Therefore, I only allow device usage during activities that require devices. At all other times, you should put your device away. I'll help you remember this by announcing when to bring devices out and when to put them away.
Academic Integrity
Each student in this course is expected to abide by the Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic credit will be the student's own work. You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in class with other students. You can give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help from such students. However, this permissible cooperation should never involve one student having possession of a copy of all or part of work done by someone else, in the form of an e-mail, an e-mail attachment file, a soft copy, or a hard copy. If you have questions about what is, or is not, permissable, please come and ask.
Students with Disabilities
Your access in this course is important. Please give me your Student Disability Services (SDS) accommodation letter early in the semester so that we have adequate time to arrange your approved academic accommodations. If you need an immediate accommodation for equal access, please speak with me after class or send an email/slack message to me and/or SDS at sds_cu@cornell.edu. If the need arises for additional accommodations during the semester, please contact SDS. You may also feel free to speak with Student Services at Cornell Tech who will connect you with the university SDS office.
Acknowledgements
Many of the materials posted here and used in the course have been shared and refined by other instructors and TAs in previous offerings and at other schools.