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Schedule

Lecture slides will be posted after class.

Some dates are tentative. The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses...

WEEK DAY Lectures & Examples Topic & Reading Assignments
1 Sep 01   Introduction to Course Assignment 0
Sep 03  
Sep 05 Our first class
Lecture
2 Sep 08 Lecture Usability
User Analysis
Task Analysis
Assignment 1
Read "user testing" articles (in reverse order) on Discussion page
Sep 10 Drop/Add ends
Lecture
Sep 12 Lecture
3 Sep 15 Lecture Contextual Design, Human Capabilities Read "Contextual Design" and post comment on Discussion page
Read electronic voting and Secrets articles and post a comment on Discussion page
Sep 17 Lecture
Sep 19 Lecture
4 Sep 22 Lecture Human Capabilities
Usability Guidelines
Designing, Prototypes
Read "What do Prototypes Prototype?" article and post a comment on Discussion page
Read "Now Preening on Your Coffee Table" and "Google User Experience" and post a comment on Discussion page
Sep 24 Lecture
Sep 26 Lecture
5 Sep 29 Lecture Prototypes, Graphical Design
Skills Topic: Project preparation
Due Friday: Project Deliverable 0: scope, schedule
Oct 01  
Oct 03 Lecture
6 Oct 06 Lecture Graphic Design
Skills Topic: Reviewing
Poster Reviews
Wed - Project Status Reports, Journal
Oct 08 Lecture

Oct 10

Reading Days

7 Oct 13 Lecture Information Visualization
Designing Interfaces, by Jennifer Tidwell
Skills Topic: Latex, Bibtex,
Reviewing Papers
Fri - Project Status Reports, Journal
Oct 15 Lecture
Oct 17 Lecture
8 Oct 20 Lecture Information Visualization
Skills Topic: Latex, Bibtex, Unix Permissions
Fri - Project Status Reports, Journal
Oct 22 Lecture
Oct 24 Lecture
9 Oct 27 Lecture Information Visualization
Oct 29 Project work day
Oct 31
10 Nov 03 Lecture CSCW
Skills Topic: Version Control
Fri - Project Status Reports, Journal
Information Visualization Analysis
Nov 05 Version Control
Nov 07 Lecture
11 Nov 10 Lecture Evaluation, Heuristics
Skills Topic: Intermediate UNIX Tools, Bash Scripts
Fri - Project Status Reports, Journal
Nov 12 Lecture
Nov 14 Lecture
12 Nov 17 Lecture User Testing, Social Software
Nov 19 Lecture
Nov 21  
 

Nov 24

Thanksgiving Break

Nov 26

Nov 28

13 Dec 01   The Future of HCI: Social Software, Accessibility
Course Evaluations
 
Dec 03 Lecture  
Dec 05 Last day of classes  
 

Dec 08

Final Exam Week

Dec 10

Dec 12

Parts of lecture slides from Scott Klemmer and from MIT OpenCourseWare