Instructor: Susan E. Brennan
Tues-Thurs 9:50-12:30 (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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09/04/07 |
Register
for CITI on-line
ethics training |
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(T. L.
Friedman) |
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09/06/07 |
Begin
Assignment 1: Usability critique &
Collect bad design examples |
Norman:
Ch 1,2,3 |
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09/11/07 |
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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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09/18/07 |
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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09/20/07 |
Begin
Assignment 2: Heuristic
evaluation |
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How to
conduct a heuristic evaluation (Nielsen) Follow
all the links! |
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09/25/07 |
Lab:
Continue heuristic evaluation |
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As we may think (V.
Bush) (Brennan) |
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09/27/07 |
Assignment 2 due: Heuristic Evaluation Lab: Begin
Assignment 3: Screen
design |
CGB: Ch
4; Ch 5 |
Anthropomorphism:
From Eliza to Terminator 2 (A. Don et al.) Metaphors
(Barr et al.) |
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10/02/07 |
Prof. Amanda Stent: Intelligent
multimodal systems |