Instructor: Susan E. Brennan
Tues-Thurs 9:50-12:40 (double class period with short
break); Psych A 141
Check
this page for new links each week!
Required texts: Norman (1990).
The Design of Everyday Things
CGB = Cohen, Giangola, &
Balogh (2004). Voice User
Interface Design.
(Follow underlined
links for additional required readings and resources on-line)
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Date |
Topic |
LAB activities; (Assignments due today are in red) |
Readings
from required texts |
Other
required readings &
links |
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01/27/09 |
Register
for CITI on-line
ethics training |
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(T. L.
Friedman) |
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01/29/09 |
Begin
Assignment 1: Usability critique &
Collect bad design examples |
Norman:
Ch 1,2,3 |
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02/03/09 |
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When
interfaces go bad Discuss
examples Finish ethics training |
Norman:
Ch 4, 5 CGB: pp
221-228 (in Ch 13) |
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02/05/09 |
Assignment 1 due: Usability critique |
CGB: Ch 9 |
Affordances, revisited
(Norman) Three Teapots (‘’) Cell phone-induced
failures of visual attention during driving (Strayer) & press
release |
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02/10/09 |
Begin
Assignment 2: Heuristic
evaluation |
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How to
conduct a heuristic evaluation (Nielsen) Follow
all the links! |
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02/12/09 |
Lab:
Continue heuristic evaluation |
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As we may think (V.
Bush) (Brennan) |
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02/17/09 |
Assignment 2 due: Heuristic Evaluation (Results
to be compiled by T. Weaver) |
CGB: Ch
4; Ch 5 |
Anthropomorphism:
From Eliza to Terminator 2 (A. Don et al.) |
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02/19/09 |
Begin
Assignment 3: Using the Internet without using your eyes (observations to be
collected in class) |
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(Fun with
Fitts’ Law, Tognazzini) |
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02/24/09 |
Lab: Discuss
results of heuristic evaluation. Continue
Assignment 3: Using the internet without using your eyes |
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Computer
aided conversation for severely physically impaired non-speaking people
(Alm et al.) What’s the web like if
you can’t see it? (Asakawa) |
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02/26/09 |
Assignment 3 due Begin
Assignment 4: |
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How users read on the web
(Jakob Nielsen) Writing as
design, design as writing (Norman) |
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03/03/09 |
Universal
access II: Screen readers for blind & mobile users |
Continue
Assignment 4: Screen Design Demo: JAWS and HearSay |
Norman:
Ch 6, 7 |
Reading TBA |
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03/05/09 |
Assignment 4 due: Screen Design Begin
Assignment 5: Intelligent agents |
CGB: Ch 6 |
Hi! I’m Julie! (play the video) Designing agents as if
people mattered (Erickson) Graphical agent: Microsoft Bob Attributions
toward agents (Brennan & Ohaeri) Sociable
robots (Henig) |
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03/10/09 |
Continue
Assignment 5: Intelligent Agents |
CGB: Ch
7, 8, 14, 15 |
Handout
from Preece (1993), A
Guide to Usability User
studies (Gomoll) |
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03/12/09 |
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Assignment 5 due: Intelligent agents Begin
Assignment 6: |
CGB: Ch
10, 11, 12 |
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03/17/09 |
Continue
Assignment 6: Dialogue Design |
Ch 13 |
Everyone
can write better (& you are no exception) (Clark) Addendum
(Brennan) |
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03/19/09 |
Tony Weaver: Design your own dialog
system w/ VoiceXML and BeVocal Cafe |
Assignment 6 due: Dialogue Design Begin
Assignment 7: |
CGB: Ch
1, 2, 3 |
Examples: disconnect.vxml |
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03/24/09 |
(a
review) |
Lab: Get
to know VoiceXML |
Handout:
Experiment design |
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03/26/09 |
Dr. Jonathan Bloom: A psychologist’s adventures in industry |
Assignment 7 due: Get to know VoiceXML Begin
Assignment 8: |
How
to build a successful speech application Visit: Speechcycle, Nuance, LumenVox
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03/31/09 |
Dr. Peter Viccellio, MD: An doctor’s adventures in the ER (Intro to
task
analysis) |
Lab:
Assignment 8, task analysis |
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Visit and
explore: IDEO |
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04/02/09 |
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Lab: Continue task analysis, assign
groups |
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04/06-10 |
SPRING
BREAK |
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04/14/09 |
Group meetings |
Assignment 8 due: Task analysis Lab:
Group meeting |
Review
all CGB readings |
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04/16/09 |
Psychology,
human interaction, and the Internet Computer-supported cooperative
work & mediated communication |
Lab:
Group meeting Progress report #1 due |
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Social proxies
(Erickson & Kellogg) Understanding
effects of proximity on collaboration (Kraut et al. 2002) Internet use increases
isolation (Sleek) Internet
paradox? (Kraut et al.) |
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04/21/09 |
Lab:
Group meeting: |
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2. Overcoming phobias
by virtual exposure 3. Virtual city
for cognitive rehabilitation 4. VR exposure therapy
(& links) |
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04/23/09 |
Demo: Automated
translation from one language to another Try out Babelfish |
Lab:
Group meeting Progress report #2 due |
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04/28/09 |
Discussion:
Careers
that apply psychology to the real world Group
meeting |
Lab:
Group meeting |
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(Kraut et
al.) |
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04/30/09 |
TBA Group
meeting |
Lab:
Group meeting |
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05/05/06 |
GROUP
PRESENTATIONS |
GROUP
PRESENTATIONS |
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05/07/06 |
MORE
GROUP PRESENTATIONS |
Review
for final exam |
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(To be
confirmed) |
FINAL
EXAM Th MAY
14, Per.2, 11-1:30 |
GROUP
PROJECTS DUE |
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