CS 791m HumanComputer Interaction

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CS 791mHuman-Computer Interaction

• Fall 2003
• Course Syllabus Preliminary
• August 25, 2003

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Outline

• The Instructor
• The Students
• The Course
• The Texts
• Initial WWW Pointers
• Grading Scheme
• Policies
• Tentative Schedule

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The Instructor.

• Sergiu Dascalu
• Room SEM-236
• Telephone [phone]
• E-mail dascalus_at_cs.unr.edu
• Web-site www.cs.unr.edu/dascalus
• Office hours
• Tuesday and Thursday 100 230 pm or by
  appointment or chance

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.The Instructor

• Sergiu Dascalu
• PhD, Dalhousie U., Halifax, NS, Canada, 2001
• Teaching and research at Dalhousie University,
  1993-2001 (software engineering focus)
• Teaching and research at the University
  Politehnica Bucharest, Romania, 1984-1995
• (RT embedded systems focus)
• Consultant for software development companies in
  Canada and Romania

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The Students

• Registered as of yesterday
• 9 students
• Prerequisite
• Instructors approval

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The Course

• Classroom
• OSN-202 (building 21 on UNR map)
• 600 pm-715 pm
• Outline tentative This course examines topics
  related to designing computer systems that
  support people to carry on their activities
  productively and safely. Possible topics covered
  include input-output devices, input-output
  channels, interaction styles, usability
  principles and paradigms, task analysis, dialog
  notations and semantics, screen design,
  implementation support, multimedia, interfaces
  for web-sites, and virtual reality.

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The Texts.

• Textbook ONE of, most likely, the following
• Alan Dix et al's "Human-Computer Interaction
• or
• Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski's "Designing
  from Both Sides of the Screen
• or Jenny Preece et al's "Interaction
  Design Beyond Human-Computer Interaction"

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.The Texts

• Lecture notes
• Presentations by the instructor
• Notes you take in the classroom
• Additional texts (see pages 16 and 17)
• Material that will be indicate dlater by the
  instructor (papers, articles, tutorials, etc).

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Initial WWW Pointer

• Gary Perlmans HCI Bibliography
• http//hcibib.org/
• More will be indicated later

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Grading Scheme.

• Tentative (slight modifications are possible)
• Assigned reading/assignments 20
• Presentation 12
• Midterm tests 30
• Project 28
• Class participation 10
• TOTAL 100
• Note that there are no make-up tests or homework
  in this course

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.Grading Scheme

• Passing conditions (all must be met)
• 50 overall
• 50 in tests
• 50 in project
• 50 in assigned readings, assignments,
  presentation, and class participation

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Grading Scale

• Numerical-letter grade correspondence
• A 90 -100
  maximum 100
• A- 86 - 89
• B 83 - 85
• B 77 - 82
• B- 73 - 76
• C 70 - 72
• C 64 - 69
• C- 61 - 63
• D 58 - 60
• D 54 - 57
• D- 50 - 53
• F lt 50

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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 presentation and tests
• Example a 90/100 worth assignment gets 81/100 if
  one day late (900.9 81) or 72/100 if two days
  late (900.8 72)

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.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)

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..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

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Additional Texts..

• Each student will deliver a presentation based on
  one of the following additional texts
• 1 Don. A Norman, The Design Of Everyday Things
• 2 Steven Krug, Dont Make Me Think A Common
  Sense Approach to Web Usability
• 3 Alan Cooper Robert Reimann, About Face 2.0
  The Essential of Interaction Design
• 4 Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the
  Asylum Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and
  How to Restore the Sanity

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.Additional Texts.

• 5 Carolyn Snyder, Paper Prototyping The Fast and
  Easy Way to Refine User Interfaces
• 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 Alan Walendowski, Designing from
  Both Sides of the Screen How Designers and
  Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative
  Technology
• 9 Jeff Johnson, GUI Bloopers Donts and Dos for
  Software Developers and Web Designers

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..Additional Texts

• 10 Karen Donahue, Built for Use Driving
  Profitability Through the User Experience
• 11 Joel Spolsky, User-Interface Design for
  Programmers
• 12 Chris Crawford, The Art of Interactive Design
  A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building
  Successful Software
• 13 Eric Begnan (editor), Information Appliances
  and Beyond

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Tentative Schedule.
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.Tentative Schedule