TC 319, Introduction to Concepts in Human Computer Interaction
Winter 2007


Course Schedule

Date

Topic

Assignment

Reading

Fieldtrip

Addl Reading

Thu 1/4

Course Introduction and Definitions

Tue 1/9

Background

Mark Weiser, "The Computer for the 21st Century"

http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html

Terry Winograd, "From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design"

http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/acm97.html

Thu 1/11

People and Machines

Lucy Suchman, from Plans and Situated Actions

D. Norman, from The Design of Everyday Things

Weiser, "Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing" Communications of the ACM July 1993 36:7 [for the 16th]

 [Choose a tool by today. See GUI Protoyping Tools http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools]

Tue 1/16

9e082b33-58ea-47aa-aaa7-f4638d42d62e - Renagade HCI

Guest lecturers: Paul Holman and 3ric J.

Thu 1/18

Mapping HCI

Schneiderman, "Universal Usability"

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/p84-shneiderman-May2000CACMf.pdf

Guest lecture: James Fogarty

Tue 1/23

Prototyping

Guest lecture: Emma Rose

Thu 1/25

Ubicomp and HCI; Social Issues, Research Methods

Pruitt and Grudin, "Personas, Practice and Theory"

http://research.microsoft.com/~jgrudin/

Dourish and Button "On ‘Technomethodology:' Foundational Relationships between Ethnomethodology and System Design"

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/publications/1998/hci-technometh.pdf

Tue 1/30

Fieldwork

Burrell, Brooke, Beckwith, "Vineyard Computing: Sensor Networks in Agricultural Production"

Pervasive Computing, January-March 2004 (Vol. 3, No. 1)   pp. 38-45

Mynatt, Melenhorst, Fisk, and Rogers, "Aware Technologies for Aging in Place"

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/7756/29186/01316816.pdf?tp=&arnumber=1316816&isnumber=29186

Thu

2/1

RFID Background

Top 10, best/worst uses of RFID

http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39164446,00.htm

Radio Frequency Identification Tags: A Workshop Summary

http://orsted.nap.edu/books/0309095433/html

Tue 2/6

RFID and the Seattle Public Library

Radio Frequency Identification Tags: A Workshop Summary

http://orsted.nap.edu/books/0309095433/html

TBA (recent, newsworthy items)

Thu 2/8

RFID and Public Policy

Reading/lecturer tba

Tue 2/13

Mobile Phones

Matt Jones, Mobile Interaction Design. Chapter 1.

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/98/04700908/0470090898.pdf

Thu

2/15

Mobiles fieldwork

Tue 2/20

Fieldwork presentations

Thu 2/22

Privacy

Khalil and Connelly, "Context-aware Telephony: Privacy Preferences and Sharing Patterns" CSCW '06, [ACM]

Tue 2/27

Mobiles in context

Suchman, Practice-Based Design of Information Systems, The Information Society, 18: 139-144, 2002.

Chipchase, Shared Phone Use

http://www.janchipchase.com/sharedphoneuse

Thu 3/1

International and Emerging Markets HCI

Guest lecture: Karishma Kiri

Tue 3/6

Presentations

Thu 3/8

Presentations

Final projects due

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