CIS 4930/5100: Human-Computer Interaction

Section 4953/8947

Spring 2010

CSE 220, MWF 7th period

Professor: Benjamin Lok

Office: CSE Room E342

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

 

Office Hours:

·         Wednesday 8th period

·         Friday 8th period

·         By appointment (email)  

 

TA: Shayan Javed (sjaved@ufl.edu)

 

Office Hours:

·         Tuesday 8th period

·         Thursday 8th period

Class

January: (Chapter 1, 2)

6th - course intro, syllabus, human computer interaction (chapter 1)

8th - human computer interaction (chapter 1)

11thProject #1 Assigned, human computer interaction (chapter 1)

13thNetBeans IDE talk by Shayan Javed

15thHow to Conduct a User Study, Media Equation (from: http://www.stanford.edu/class/symbsys100/mediaeq.pdf) reading assigned

18th – NO CLASS - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

20thHow to Conduct a User Study

22thHow to Conduct a User Study, Media Equation quiz, reading: -Automatically generating user interfaces – Gajos http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294211.1294253&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&type=series&idx=SERIES301&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=UIST&CFID=2019144&CFTOKEN=12350598

25thMedia Equation, Guidelines, Principles, and Theories

27thGuidelines, Principles, and Theories, Project #1 - Part A due

29thGuidelines, Principles, and Theories, Quiz on Automatically Generating User Interfaces.  New reading: The performance of touch screen soft buttons

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518750&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=72661549&CFTOKEN=84843950&ret=1#Fulltext

February:

1stFIEA talk on Playtesting by Ron Weaver, Project #1 - Part B due

3rdGuidelines, Principles, and Theories

5th - Guidelines, Principles, and Theories, Quiz on Performance of Touch Screen Soft Buttons.  New Reading: Mouse 2.0

8th – Video: TED Talk by Sendhil Mullainathan, TED Talk by Pranev Mistry, Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments, Project #2 Assigned

10th - Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments

12th - Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments

15thDirect Manipulation and Virtual Environments

17thIntroduction to Virtual Environments,

19thIntroduction to Virtual Environments,Project 2 Part A Due, Quiz on Mouse 2.0, New Reading: Real-time Robust Body Part Tracking for Augmented Reality Interface

22ndInteraction Devices (Chapter 9), Midterm Assigned

24th – Augmented Reality Introduction by Dr. Yong Ho Hwang

26thInteraction Devices, Quiz: Real-time Robust Body Part Tracking for Augmented Reality Interface

March:

1st  Interaction Devices,

3rdInteraction Devices

5th – Midterm Due

6th-13th SPRING BREAK

15thEvaluating User Interfaces

17th – Project 2 Part B Due Presentation format

19th – NO CLASS

22nd - Evaluating User Interfaces (teacher: Brent Rossen), reading: volume intersection

24th – NO CLASS, Project 3 Assigned

26th - Evaluating User Interfaces, Quiz on: volume intersection, New reading assigned: AR Dashboard

29th - Evaluating User Interfaces

31st - Evaluating User Interfaces

April

2nd – NO CLASS, report due on AR Dashboard, New reading assigned: PenLight

5thEvaluating User Interfaces, Project 3 Part A due

7th – Discussion on NATAL, Milo, and Virtual Humans

9thCommand and Natural Languages, Quiz: PenLight, New reading assigned: Eye-tracking

12thCommand and Natural Languages

14thCommand and Natural Languages

16th – Quiz: Eye-tracking

19th – PRESENT FINAL PROJECTS

21st – PRESENT FINAL PROJECTS

 

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 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/)