Instructor: Nicki Dell, nixdell [at] cornell [dot] edu (please use slack instead of email if at all reasonable!)
TA: Zaid Haque, zfh2 [at] cornell [dot] edu and Lei Shi, ls776 [at] cornell [dot] edu
Course slack channel: tech-hci-2016.slack.com (sign up with your Cornell email address)
Lecture: Tuesday/Thursday 11am-12.15pm, Grizzly
Office Hours
Nicki: Tuesday/Thursday 12.15-1pm, Baron
Lei: Monday/Wednesday 11-11.45am, Baron
Design Workshops
Monday April 11, April 18, April 25, Fozzie
11am - 12:15pm: Design Workshop Hands-on Session
12:15pm - 1pm: Design Workshop Recap
Grading and course deliverables (subject to change if necessary)
Assignments 40%, in-class participation 10%, project 50%
Course Material (subject to change if necessary)
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1/28 |
Course intro and background |
The Mother of all Demos |
A0 |
Start thinking about project teams and ideas |
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2/2 |
Understanding Users |
The Design of Everyday Things (Chapters 1-3) |
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2/4 |
Contextual Inquiry and Usability |
The Design of Everyday Things (Chapters 4-5) |
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2/9 |
Prototyping |
The Design of Everyday Things (Chapters 6-7) |
A1 due |
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2/11 |
Heuristic Evaluation and Project Planning |
Usability Evaluation Considered Harmful (Some of the Time) Optional: |
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2/16 |
NO CLASS - February break |
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2/18 |
Bias and Ethics |
Project proposal due |
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2/23 |
User Interface Toolkits |
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2/25 |
Intoduction to Design (Heather Luipold, Matt Delbridge) |
You are all strongly encouraged to buy this book: Lean UX. |
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3/1 |
Design Basics (Matt Delbridge and Adam Katz) |
Beatrice Warde, The Crystal Goblet, |
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3/3 |
Digital Design (Matt Delbridge and Adam Katz) |
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3/8 |
Qualitative Data and Methods |
A Qualitative Approach To HCI Research (Optional) |
A2 due |
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3/10 |
Sketch 3 workshop (Zaid Haque) |
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3/15 |
Interaction Design (Heather, Matt, Adam) |
1. What is product design? |
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3/17 |
Presentation Design (Heather, Matt, Adam) |
1. How great leaders inspire action (TED talk) |
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3/22 |
Panel of Design Practitioners |
A3 due |
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3/24 |
Ubiquitous computing (Guest lecture: Louise Barkhuus) |
The Computer for the 21st Century |
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3/29 |
NO CLASS - Spring break |
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3/31 |
NO CLASS - Spring break |
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4/5 |
Quantitative Data and Methods |
Putting AB testing in its place, |
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4/7 |
Project midway presentations |
Midway report due |
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4/12 |
Experimental Design |
Experimental Research in HCI (reading for 4/12 and 4/14) |
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4/14 |
Statistical methods |
Experimental Research in HCI (reading for 4/12 and 4/14) |
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4/19 |
Visualization |
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data, |
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4/21 |
Security and Privacy |
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4/26 |
HCI for global development; Computing for developing regions |
Stories from the field |
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4/28 |
Computing for people with disabilities; Web Accessibility |
Introduction to Web Accessibility |
A4 due |
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5/3 |
Case study: Design in a corporate environment (Zaid) |
lecture |
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5/5 |
NOTE: Long class: 11am - 1pm |
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5/10 |
CLASS CANCELED |
Final report due May 12th, 11:59pm |
Assignments
Assignment 1: Description, due Feb 9th before class.
Assignment 2: Description , due March 8th before class.
Assignment 3: Description, due March 22 before class.
Assignment 4: Description, due April 28th before class.
Project
Project proposal: Project proposal description, due February 18th before class
Midway report: Midway report description, due April 7th before class
Midway presentation: Midway report description, due April 7th before class
Final report: Final report description, due May 12th, 11:59pm
Final demo: Final demo description, May 5th 11am-1pm in Grizzly
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.