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CPE/CSC 484 User-Centered Interface Design and Development Winter 2006

CPE/CSC 484-W06 User-Centered Interface Design and Development Schedule

The following table provides an outline for the course schedule. The schedule may be subject to some changes, and some details will be provided as we go.

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Week Date Topic Keywords Readings Speaker Backup Speaker Lab Assignment Project Student Presentations Student Commentators 1 Jan 3 Introduction: Overview UCD and HCI User-Centered Design, Human-Computer Interaction [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 1-2 Mary Somerville, Helen Chu: Cal Poly Learning Commons Review of research with human subjects; work on Assignment 1 Assignment 1: Tools for UCD 2 Jan 10 Understanding User Interaction conceptual model, interface metaphor, interaction method [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 2 Hoang Bao: Usability Evaluation of Tablet PCs continue work on Assignment 1 A1 Presentations 3 Jan 17 Cognitive Foundations; Collaboration and Communication; User Interfaces and Users [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 3-5 Todd Maki: SC3 Perspective on Learning Management Systems (Jan 19) completion Assignment 1; distribution Assignment 2: Storyboards identification of possible project topics A1 Presentations Assignment 1 Team Presentations 4 Jan 24 Interaction Design Process User Needs & Requirements [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 6-7 Gigi Choy, Rachelle Hom: Internet2 File Transfer work on Assignment 2; distribution Assignment 3: User Data Collection discussion of project topics 5 Jan 31 Designing and Prototyping User-Centered Approaches [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 8-9 distribution Term Project A2 Presentations 6 Feb 7 Usability Evaluation Overview Usability Evaluation Framework [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 10-11 distribution Assignment 4: Usability Evaluation topic selection term project project topics (informal) 7 Feb 14 Observing Users Asking Users and Experts [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 12-13 presentations Assignment 3; A3 Presentations 8 Feb 21 Testing and Modeling Users [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 14 alpha version term project project updates (informal) 9 Feb 28 Usability Evaluation in Practice [Preece, Rogers & Sharp, 2002] Ch. 15 beta version term project; check out the Interactive Heuristic Evaluation Toolkit project updates (informal) 10 Mar 8 Final Project Presentations final presentations term project Final Project Presentations 11 Mar 15 Finals Week

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