CIS 4930/5100: Human-Computer Interaction

Section 6344/2614

Fall 2010

CSE 222, MWF 4th period (10:40-11:30)

 

Professor: Benjamin Lok

Office: CSE Room E544

lok@cise.ufl.edu  (Put HCI in the subject) 

TA: Diego Rivera-Gutierrez (djrg@cise.ufl.edu)

Office Hours:

·        Monday 5th period

·        Wednesday 5th period

·        By appointment (email)  

 

TA Hours (Room 520D):

· Tuesday 7th period

· Thursday 7h period

Class

August:

23rd – Course introduction, cover syllabus, human computer interaction (chapter 1)

25th – Human computer interaction (chapter 1)

27th –Project #1 Assigned, human computer interaction (chapter 1)

30th – NetBeans IDE talk by Diego Rivera

September:

1st – NetBeans IDE talk by Diego Rivera, How to Conduct a User Study, Reading: Automatically generating user interfaces – Gajos reading assigned

Sent by Randy Lawton - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw (stairs vs. elevator – minimum energy interfaces)

3rd - How to Conduct a User Study

6th – Labor day – NO CLASS,

8th – How to Conduct a User Study

10th – How to Conduct a User Study, Quiz on Automatically generating user interfaces – Gajos, Reading: The performance of touch screen soft buttons

13th – How to Conduct a User Study, Project #1 - Part A due (user study.xls example ttest)

15th – Media Equation

17th – Guidelines, Principles, and Theories (Read Chapter 2), Project #1 - Part B due, Quiz on The performance of touch screen soft buttons, Reading: Mouse 2.0

20th – FEIA Lecture by Mr. Tom Carbone, Project #2 Assigned, Sample projects

22nd - Guidelines, Principles, and Theories,

24th – Guidelines, Principles, and Theories, to search for papers, hcibib.org, http://tochi.acm.org/%20, Quiz on Mouse 2.0, Reading: Foundations for designing and evaluating user interfaces based on the crossing paradigm

27th – Guidelines, Principles, and Theories

29th – Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments (Read Chapter 6)

October

1st – Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments Quiz on: Foundations for designing and evaluating user interfaces based on the crossing paradigm

4th– Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments  (Chapter 9), Midterm Assigned, reading for Friday: Minput

6th – Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments

Yaz Khabiri - BlindType.

Jayesh Joy – 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act

8th – Discuss project 2 in my office (10:30-12:00), Quiz: Minput, NO READING FOR NEXT WEEK

11th – Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments

Brent Rossen: Microsoft Lightscape

Sirui Liu – BumpTomp 3D

Pranay Kothari - Siftables

Aaron Kotranza - TeslaTouch

13th -  Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments

Rahul Pendyala – Wii Remote Hacks

14th – Midterm Due

15th –  HOMECOMING- NO CLASS

18th – Evaluating User Interfaces, TED Talk by Sendhil Mullainathan

20th – Evaluating User Interfaces, TED Talk by Pranev Mistry

22nd – NO CLASS, quiz: PenLight: Combining a Mobile Projector and a Digital Pen for Dynamic Visual Overlay, New reading: Collaborative Interaction with Volumetric Displays

25th – Evaluating User Interfaces, Projects #3 and #4 Assigned

27th – Evaluating User Interfaces

Kedar Thakur – Most People *Seem* Dumb Compared To You

29th – Evaluating User Interfaces

November

1st – Project #2 Part B Due (Present to TA and myself in my office: CSE 544)

3rd – Interaction Devices

Gabriel Reyes – 8Pen

Nick Farah – Expedia HCI changes results in $12 million a year increased sales

5th – Interaction Devices, quiz: Collaborative Interaction with Volumetric Displays

8th – Interaction Devices

Hariharan Sridharan – Game Gun

10th – Interaction Devices

12th – Interaction Devices, Project 3 Due

15th –  Interaction Devices

17th –  Interaction Devices, New Reading: Tabletop Displays for Small Group Study:  Affordances of Paper and Digital Materials 

19th –  Interaction Devices

22nd – Command and Natural Languages

24th – Command and Natural Languages, Quiz: Tabletop Displays, New Reading: What Do You See When You’re Surfing? Using Eye Tracking to Predict Salient Regions of Web Pages

26th – Thanksgiving Holiday – NO CLASS

29th – Command and Natural Languages

December

1st – Virtual Humans

3rd – Virtual Humans, Quiz: EyeTracking

6th – PRESENT FINAL PROJECTS

8th – PRESENT FINAL PROJECTS, project 4 report due

 

Interesting Topics of discussion:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/04/29/dnt.senior.wii.bowling.champ.wpbf?hpt=C2

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/inspiration/15-in-depth-examples-of-addictive-user-experience

 

http://delivery.acm.org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1145/1680000/1670295/p203-jung.pdf?key1=1670295&key2=3471335621&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=76556863&CFTOKEN=52520947

Project files: Sample IRB, Parental Consent Form and Consent Form, sample projects page

SyllabusShould I take this course?

 

Lectures

Introduction to Human Computer Interaction (Chapter 1)

Guidelines, Principles, and Theories (Chapter 2)

Evaluating User Interfaces (Chapter 4)

Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments PDF (Chapter 6)

How to Conduct a User Study (not in book)

Media Equation (not in book)

Virtual Environments (Introduction, Output Devices) (not in book)

Interaction Devices (Chapter 9)

Command and Natural Languages (Chapter 8)

 

HCI Links

HCI Bibliography - http://www.hcibib.org/

Professor Gregory Abowd on how to design questionnaires (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6751_97_winter/Topics/quest-design/)