05-830, Advanced User Interface Software, Spring, 2009

This is the OLD version of the course -- please see the Spring, 2013 version

• The schedule and assignments are tentative and subject to change.
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• The Readings are due on the date noted.
• Nielsen Text = Jakob Nielsen. "Usability Engineering". Boston: Academic Press, Inc. 1993. ISBN 0-12-518406-9 (paperback) or ISBN 0-12-518405-0 (hardcover). 
• To see about a topic for which there are not yet slides, maybe see the corresponding lecture in last time's schedule

 

Wed, Jan 14, 2009 NSH 3501	Course organization; Evaluating Tools PowerPoint slides for Lecture Required Readings: Clarke, Steve, “Measuring API Usability.” Dr. Dobb's Journal; Special Windows/.NET Supplement, May, 2004. pp. S6-S9. pdf Jeffrey Stylos and Brad Myers, "Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions," 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC'07. Sept 23-27, 2007, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. pp. 50-57. ieee or local pdf Jakob Nielsen, Heuristic Evaluation. On line in html format. Includes list of 10 heuristics. Nielsen Text: Chapter 5 (Heuristic Evaluation) Brian Ellis, Jeffrey Stylos, and Brad Myers. "The Factory Pattern in API Design: A Usability Evaluation". International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2007). May 20-26, 2007. Minneapolis, MN. pp. 302-312. ACM DL or local pdf T.R.G. Green, Cognitive Dimensions of Notations. Cognitive Dimensions of Notations Resource Site Recommended Readings: Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers. "The Implications of Method Placement on API Learnability," Sixteenth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2008). Atlanta, GA, November 9-14, 2008. 105-112. ACM DL or  local pdf Jeffrey Stylos and Steven Clarke. "Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects' Constructors". International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007). May 20-26, 2007. Minneapolis, MN. pp. 529-539. ACM DL or local pdf Jack Beaton, Sae Young Jeong, Yingyu Xie, Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers. "Usability Challenges for Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture APIs," 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC'08. Sept 15-18, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 193-196. local pdf   Green, T.R.G. and Petre, M., “Usability Analysis of Visual Programming Environments: A 'Cognitive Dimensions' Framework.” Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 1996. 7(2): pp. 131-174. ScienceDirect Includes an analysis of HyperCard Matthew Conway, et. al., "Alice: lessons learned from building a 3D system for novices", CHI'2000. pp. 486-493. ACM DL or see this html summary. Alice was informed by many user studies over the years. Ko A.J. and Myers B.A. (2009). "Finding Causes of Program Output with the Java Whyline." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA, to appear. local pdf Start on Homework 1
Fri, Jan 16, 2009	Brad away at NSF Creative-IT meeting
Wed, Jan 21, 2009 NSH 3501	In-class presentation of UI Evaluations from HW1 -- each student gets 8 minutes   Student Tool Evaluation Technique Presentation 1 Jeffrey Wong iPhone programming CD ppt 2 Kyungmin Kim Flash interactive environment CD pptx 3 Joon Cho Java Swing HE ppt 4 Joshua Sunshine Ruby on Rails CD pptx 5 Tobias Freudenreich ActionScript CD pptx 6 Stephen Oney Java FX (RIA from Sun) CD pptx 7 Philip Sarin Django (python) CD pdf 8 Benjamin Feigin Cappucino CD pptx Homework 1 Due Start on Homework 2
Fri, Jan 23, 2009 NSH 2507	Why are user interfaces hard to design and implement? and Types of User Interfaces PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83. ACM DL Discusses why user interfaces are important, and why they are hard to design and implement. Brad A. Myers. "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology." ACM interactions. Vol. 5, no. 2, March, 1998. pp. 44-54. ACM DL Recommended Readings: Brad A. Myers and Mary Beth Rosson. "Survey on User Interface Programming," Proceedings SIGCHI'92: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Monterrey, CA, May 3-7, 1992. pp. 195-202. ACM DL Reference Discusses what percent of the time and effort went into the UI part. (Outdated). Nielsen Text: Chapters 1,  2 and 3 Amusing Reading: Tyson R. Henry, Scott E. Hudson, Andrey K. Yeatts, Brad A. Myers and Steven Feiner; "A nose gesture interface device: extending virtual realities," Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, UIST'1991, Pages 65 - 68. ACM DL Reference.
Wed, Jan 28, 2009 NSH 1507 **NOTE special room**	Overview of UI Software and Tools PowerPoint Slides for Lecture PowerPoint Slides for "extra" lecture: Updated HCIC Talk on Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Graphical User Interface Programming," chapter 48 of Computer Science Handbook -- Second Edition. Allen B. Tucker, editor in chief. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Inc., 2004. pp. 48-1 - 48-29. pdf  (This is a revision of Brad A. Myers. "User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 2, no. 1, March, 1995. pp. 64-103. ACM DL Reference) Brad A. Myers, Scott Hudson and Randy Pausch. "Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, (Mar. 2000). Volume 7 , Issue 1. pp. 3-28. ACM DL Reference.
Fri, Jan 30, 2009 NSH 2507	Basic Computer Graphics PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: New Foley & van Dam, pp. 25-40, 52-60 old Foley & van Dam, pp. 132-134 (color maps) (These are combined into this pdf, but it is not generally available on the web)
Wed, Feb 4, 2009 NSH 3501	Other Output Models: Structured Graphics; Object-Oriented Techniques PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency,  Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and Patrick Doane. "The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User  Interface Software Development", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 6. June, 1997. pp. 347-365. IEEE pdf or IEEE Explore Ref or Abstract in html. Brad A. Myers, Dario A. Giuse, and Brad Vander Zanden. "Declarative Programming in a Prototype-Instance System: Object-Oriented Programming Without Writing Methods," Proceedings OOPSLA'92: ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. October 18-22, 1992. Vancouver, BC, Canada.  SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 27, no. 10. pp. 184-200. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings: Calder, P.R. and Linton, M.A. “Glyphs: Flyweight Objects for User Interfaces,” in  Proceedings UIST'90: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 1990. Snowbird, Utah: pp. 92-101. ACM DL Ref
Fri, Feb 6, 2009	Brad away: HCIC Conference
Wed, Feb 11, 2009 NSH 3501	Software Organization: Lexical-Syntax-Semantics, Seeheim Model, MVC PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: William Buxton, "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures," Computer Graphics, January, 1983, (17)1, pp. 31-37. (lexical, syntactic, semantic, etc.). html Optional Readings: Mark Green, "Report on Dialogue Specification Tools," User Interface Management Systems, G. Pfaff, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. pp. 9-20. (Seeheim model) (Here is a pdf scan of the book chapter, but it is not generally available on the web) Glenn Krasner and Stephen T. Pope, "A Cookbook for Using the Model-View-Controller User Interface Paradigm in Smalltalk-80", Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP). August-September, 1988. vol. 1, no. 3. pp. 26-49. pdf scan at UCI Other Readings: Bass, R. Faneuf, R. Little, N. Mayer, B. Pellegrino, S. Reed, R. Seacord, S. Sheppard, and M. Szczur, 1992. “A metamodel for the runtime architecture of an interactive system: the UIMS tool developers workshop”, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 24 (1), 32–37. Jan, 1992. ACM DL ref
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 NSH 2507	Window Manager Input Models PowerPoint Slides for Lecture
Wed, Feb 18, 2009 NSH 3501	New toolkit input models: Garnet & Amulet PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "A New Model for Handling Input," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3. July, 1990. pp. 289-320. ACM DL Reference. Brad A. Myers and David Kosbie. "Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects," Proceedings CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers. "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration," Proceedings CHI'98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Los Angeles, CA, April 18-23, 1998. pp. 534-541. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Myers, David A. Weitzman, Andrew J. Ko, and Duen Horng Chau, "Answering Why and Why Not Questions in User Interfaces," Proceedings CHI'2006: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2006. pp. 397-406. pdf and video  Homework 2 Due Start on Homework 3
Fri, Feb 20, 2009 NSH 2507	SubArctic and its input models Guest Lecture by Scott Hudson and Jennifer Mankoff PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, Ian Smith. "Extensible Input Handling in the subArctic Toolkit", CHI'2005. pp. 381 - 390. ACM DL Reference. Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, Gregory D. Abowd. "Providing integrated toolkit-level support for ambiguity in recognition-based interfaces". CHI'2000. pp. 368 - 375. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings. The subArctic papers (which cover various specific topics) are: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/237091.237112 (ultra-lightweight constraints) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/263407.263542 (debugging lenses) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/263407.263537 (systematic output modification) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/263407.263539 (styles) Also, the documentation for the toolkit (including the manual, JavaDoc, and source) might be useful: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson/teaching/05-631-f00/sub_arctic/ Another reference for Jennifer Mankoff's work is: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/354401.354407 (interaction techniques)
Wed, Feb 25, 2009 NSH 3501	Toolkits: intrinsics, callbacks, resources, widget hierarchies, geometry management PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Optional Readings. The subArctic papers (which cover various specific topics) are: Linton, M.A., Vlissides, J.M., and Calder, P.R., “Composing user interfaces with InterViews.” IEEE Computer, Feb, 1989. 22(2): pp. 8-22. pdf at Georgia Tech Funny flash animation about using Java Grid Bag layout: http://madbean.com/blog/2004/17/totallygridbag.html
Fri, Feb 27, 2009 NSH 2507	Constraints PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Brad Vander Zanden, Brad A. Myers, Dario Giuse and Pedro Szekely. "Integrating Pointer Variables into One-Way Constraint Models," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 1, no. 2, June, 1994. pp. 161-213. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Vander Zanden, "An Incremental Algorithm for Satisfying Hierarchies of Multi-way, Dataflow Constraints", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 18(1), January, 1996. pp. 30-72. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Rich McDaniel, and Alan Ferrency, "Easily Adding Animations to Interfaces Using Constraints." ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'96, November 6-8, 1996. Seattle, WA. pp. 119-128. ACM DL Reference
Wed, Mar 4, 2009 NSH 3501	Brad away: IS-EUD Conference Guest Lecture by Scott Hudson -- Advanced Constraints PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Scott E. Hudson. "Incremental attribute evaluation: a flexible algorithm for lazy update," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Volume 13 , Issue 3 (1991), Pages 315-341.  ACM DL Reference Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson, John Maloney and Alan Borning. "An incremental constraint solver," Communications of the ACM . Volume 33 , Issue 1 (1990). Pages 54-63. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Scott E. Hudson, Ian Smith, "Ultra-lightweight constraints", UIST'1996. pp. 147 - 155. ACM DL Reference
Fri, Mar 6, 2009	CMU Holiday - Mid-Semester Break, no classes
Wed, Mar 11, 2009	CMU Holiday - Spring Break, no classes
Fri, Mar 13, 2009	CMU Holiday - Spring Break, no classes
Wed, Mar 18, 2009 NSH 3501	UIMS Techniques: Menu trees, transition networks, grammars, Event Languages, HyperTalk, production systems, Declarative Languages PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Mark Green, "A Survey of Three Dialogue Models," ACM Transactions on Graphics (5)3, Jul, 1986, pp 244-275. ACM DL Reference chapter 10 from Olsen's book: "Editing Dialog Models". User Interface Management Systems: Models and Algorithms. Morgan Kaufmann; (November 1991) (pdf of the chapter, but this is not generally available on the web), or Amazon listing for bookk, Optional readings: Robert J.K. Jacob,  "A Specification Language for Direct Manipulation Interfaces," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Oct, 1986, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 283-317. ACM DL Reference. Ralph D. Hill, "Supporting Concurrency, Communication and Synchronization in Human-Computer Interaction - The Sassafras UIMS", ACM Transactions on Graphics, Jul, 86, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 179-210. ACM DL Reference Philip J. Hayes, Pedro A. Szekely, and Richard A. Lerner, "Design Alternatives for User Interface Management Systems Based on Experience with COUSIN", Proceedings SIGCHI'85: Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Francisco, CA, Apr, 1985, pp. 169-175. ACM DL Reference. ACM DL Reference Homework 3 Due Start on Homework 4
Fri, Mar 20, 2009 NSH 2507	Model-based tools: Creating the UI Automatically PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Dan R. Olsen, Jr., "A Programming Language Basis for User Interface Management," Proceedings SIGCHI'89, Austin, TX, Apr, 1989, pp. 171-176. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Vander Zanden and Brad A. Myers,  "Automatic, Look-and-Feel Independent Dialog Creation for Graphical User Interfaces," Proceedings SIGCHI'90: Human Factors in Computing Systems.  Seattle, WA, April 1-5, 1990. pp. 27-34. ACM DL Reference Pedro Szekely, Ping Luo, and Robert Neches, "Beyond Interface Builders: Model-Based Interface Tools, Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp. 383-390. ACM DL Reference.
Wed, Mar 25, 2009 NSH 3501	Advanced Model-Based Approaches: XWeb, XIML, iCrafter, Fabio Paterno's, SUPPLE, Pebbles PUC PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Michael Higgins, Joe Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Mathilde Pignol. "Generating Remote Control Interfaces for Complex Appliances." CHI Letters: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'02, 27-30 Oct. 2002, Paris, France. pp. 161-170. pdf Angel Puerta, "A Model-Based Interface Development Environment", IEEE Software, 14(4), July/August 1997, pp. 41-47. pdf Optional Readings: Paterno, F., Mancini, C. & Meniconi, S. (1997), "ConcurTaskTrees: A Diagrammatic Notation for Specifying Task Models," in Proceedings of Interact-97, Sydney, Australia, pp.362-369. pdf Dan R. Olsen Jr., Sean Jefferies, Travis Nielsen, William Moyes and Paul Fredrickson. “Cross-modal Interaction using Xweb,” Proceedings UIST'00: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, San Diego, CA, 2000. pp. 191-200. ACM DL Reference S. R. Ponnekanti, B. Lee, A. Fox, P. Hanrahan and T.Winograd. “ICrafter: A service framework for ubiquitous computing environments,” UBICOMP 2001, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001. pp. 56-75. URL K. Gajos, Weld, D. “SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces,” IUI'04: Intelligent User Interfaces, Funchal, Portugal, 2004. pp. 93-100. pdf. See also the video. Jeffrey Nichols, Duen Horng Chau, Brad A. Myers, "Demonstrating the Viability of Automatically Generated User Interfaces" Proceedings CHI'2007: Human Factors in Computing Systems. San Jose, CA, April 28 - May 3, 2007. pp. 1283-1292. pdf
Fri, Mar 27, 2009 NSH 2507	Interactive Tools: Prototypers (HyperCard, Director, Visual Basic), Interface Builders, Sketching Tools PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: James Landay and Brad A. Myers. "Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design," Proceedings CHI'95: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, CO. May, 1995. pp. 43-50. (html) or ACM DL Ref James Lin, Michael Thomsen, and James A. Landay, "A Visual Language for Sketching Large and Complex Interactive Designs." In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2002, 2002. 4(1): pp. 307-314. ACM DL Ref See also the DENIM Video (better version of video in a temporary place), (longer video, no sound) Optional Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Separating Application Code from Toolkits:  Eliminating the Spaghetti of Call-Backs,"  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'91, Hilton Head, SC, Nov. 11-13, 1991. pp. 211-220. ACM DL Reference Walker, M., Takayama, L., and Landay, J. (2002) High-fidelity or low-fidelity, paper or computer medium? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting (in press).  PDF James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers. Just Draw It! Programming by Sketching Storyboards.   Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-95-199 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-106. November, 1995. html or PDF
Wed, Apr 1, 2009 NSH 3501	Demonstrational Tools PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, and David S. Kosbie. "Marquise: Creating Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration," Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp.  293-300. ACM DL Reference. (pdf) Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers, "Getting More Out Of Programming-By-Demonstration." Proceedings CHI'99: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. pp. 442-449. (Gamut) ACM DL Reference. (pdf) Brad Myers, Richard McDaniel and David Wolber. "Programming by example: Intelligence in Demonstrational Interfaces," Communications of the ACM. March, 2000. vol. 43, no. 3. pp. 82-89. ACM DL Reference. (pdf) Optional Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Creating User Interfaces Using Programming-by-Example, Visual Programming, and Constraints," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. vol. 12, no. 2, April, 1990. pp. 143-177.  (Peridot) ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers, Brad Vander Zanden, and Roger B. Dannenberg. "Creating Graphical Interactive Application Objects by Demonstration," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'89, Williamsburg, VA, Nov. 13-15, 1989. pp. 95-104. (Lapidary) ACM DL Reference. (see also the video excerpt)
Fri, Apr 3, 2009 NSH 2507	Component Techniques: Andrew, OLE, OpenDoc, Java Beans, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Andrew J. Palay, Fred Hansen, Mike Kazar, Mark Sherman, Maria Wadlow, Thomas Neuendorffer, Zalman Stern, Miles Bader, and Thom Peters. "The Andrew Toolkit - An Overview", Published in Proceedings USENIX Technical Conference, Winter 1988. Reproduced as ITC Technical Report 061. pdf Chad Vawter and Ed Roman, "J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET: A comparison of building XML-based web services," June 2001. http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=J2EE-vs-DOTNET Optional Readings: JavaBeans Web Pages (http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/), especially, the official JavaBeans tutorial, and an unofficial "NetBeans JavaBeans Tutorial": http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansJavaBeansTutorial
Wed, Apr 8, 2009	No class -- During CHI'2009
Fri, Apr 10, 2009	No class -- Day after CHI'2009
Mon, Apr 13, 2009 NSH 3501	NOTE: Special day and room Special Topic Presentation 1 Joon Cho: games & 3d tools PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: William J. Schroeder, Kenneth M. Martin, William E. Lorensen. "The Design and Implementation Of An Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics And Visualization" http://vtk.org/VTK/img/dioot.pdf Luis Valente and Aura Conci. Guff: A Game Development Tool. In SIBGRAPI 2005 Workshop of Theses and Dissertations in Computer Graphics and Image Processing. pdf Optional Readings: B. Kot, “Information visualisation utilising 3d computer game engines,” FoS Scholarship report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Feb. 2005. ACM DL Ref. URL: www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~burkhard/Reports/SS2004_BlazejKot.pdf J. Blow, “Game development: Harder Than You Think”, ACM Queue, ACM, New York, 2004, pp. 29-37. ACM DL REF Other Readings: J. Neider, T. Davis, Mason Woo. OpenGL Programming Guide. Addison-Wesley, 1993. link J. Rumbaugh, M. Blaha, W. Premerlani, F. Eddy, and W. Lorensen. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991. Amazon In-class grade sheet for student presenters
Wed, Apr 15, 2009 NSH 3501	Special Topic Presentation 2 Philip Sarin: HTML-based frameworks: “Can you write REAL applications with AJAX?” PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: "adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications". (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php. "Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web" at Ted Leung on the Air. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/03/01/adobe-wants-to-be-the-microsoft-of-the-web/. "Following up on “The Microsoft of the Web”" at Ted Leung on the Air. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/03/04/following-up-on-the-microsoft-of-the-web/. Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - "What Comes After AJAX?" (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=11c471d6-ea65-4ed2-b387-c9ec966d8418. Optional Readings: Cappuccino Web Framework - Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 15, 2009, from http://cappuccino.org/ Comparing the Google Web Toolkit to Echo2. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40804 Developer's Guide - Google Web Toolkit - Google Code. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/1.6/DevGuide.html Echo2 Technical Overview | Echo Web Framework. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://echo.nextapp.com/site/echo2/doc/tov Echo2 Tutorial | Echo Web Framework. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://echo.nextapp.com/site/echo2/doc/tutorial Echo2 versus GWT • The Register. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/24/echo2_framework/ LaszloWhitePaper.pdf. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://www.openlaszlo.org/whitepaper/LaszloWhitePaper.pdf Mesbah, A., & van Deursen, A. (2006). An Architectural Style for Ajax. cs/0608111. Retrieved April 8, 2009, from http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0608111 Tony C Shan, & Winnie W Hua. (2006). Taxonomy of Java Web Application Frameworks. In e-Business Engineering, 2006. ICEBE '06. IEEE International Conference on (pp. 378-385). doi: 10.1109/ICEBE.2006.98. pdf Homework 4 Due Start on Homework 5
Fri, Apr 17, 2009	CMU Holiday -- No class -- Spring Carnival
Wed, Apr 22, 2009 NSH 3501	Brad away, no class
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 NSH 2507	Special Topic Presentation 3 Tobias Freudenreich: Plug-In architectures (Photoshop, Illustrator?, Mozilla, Office, Eclipse, COM, etc.) PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Johannes Mayer, Ingo Melzer, Franz Schweiggert, "Lightweight Plug-in-Based Application Development". Revised Papers from the International Conference NetObjectDays on Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World. pp. 87 - 102, 2002. pdf Brad A. Myers. The Case for an Open Data Model. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-98-153 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-98-101. August, 1998. pdf Birsan, D. 2005. On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures. Queue 3, 2 (Mar. 2005), 40-46. (this one is less researchy), ACM DL Ref Optional Readings: Rubel, D. 2006. The Heart of Eclipse. Queue 4, 8 (Oct. 2006), 36-44. ACM DL Ref Other Readings (for those interested in details about the eclipse plug-in architecture and development): Notes on the Eclipse Plug-in Architecture: html Introduction to Eclipse Plugin development: Eclipsepluginsite Your First Plug-in. html
Mon, Apr 27, 2009 1:30-2:50 NSH 3501	NOTE: Special day and room Special Topic Presentation 4 Benjamin Feigin: mobile application Frameworks / SDK's starting with legacy devices and then focusing on iPhone and Android development PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: iphone vs. Symbian vs. Android vs. Limo vs. Ovi : We cannot compare an ecosystem with an operating system. June 27, 2008. html Jesse Burns. "Developing Secure Mobile Applications for Android." ISEC Partners report. October, 2008. 28 pages. pdf Optional Readings: Mikko Kontio, Production Manager, Softera, "Architectural manifesto: How to choose a mobile platform." IBM developerWorks article. html AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. March 2009. pdf Additional Readings: What is Android? (Android 1.1 r1 - 13 Apr 2009). html Overview of LiMo. February, 2009. pdf iPhone Application Programming Guide: The Core Application. (official Apple iPhone documentation - updated: 2009-01-06). html "Using Symbian OS: Getting Started." 4th edition, 10/08, Published by: Symbian Software Limited, 2-6 Boundary Row, Southwark, London SE1 8HP, UK. www.symbian.com. pdf
Wed,, Apr 29, 2009 NSH 3501	Special Topic Presentation 5 NOTE, Lecture Cancelled: Jeffrey Wong: toolkits for vision Required Readings: Maynes-Aminzade, D., T. Winograd, and T. Igarashi. Eyepatch: Prototyping Camera-based Interaction through Examples. UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. pdf. Also, see video and try software here. Turk, M. 2004. Computer vision in the interface. Commun. ACM 47, 1 (Jan. 2004), 60-67. ACM DL Ref Optional Readings: Fails, J. and Olsen, D. 2003. A design tool for camera-based interaction. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI 2003. CHI '03. ACM, New York, NY, 449-456. (The Crayon System). ACM DL Ref Kato, H. and Billinghurst, M. 1999. Marker Tracking and HMD Calibration for a Video-Based Augmented Reality Conferencing System. ACM international Workshop on Augmented Reality. IWAR. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 85. (ARToolkit). pdf
Fri, May 1, 2009 NSH 1505 12-1:30	Note: special time and room Special Topic Presentation 6 Joshua Sunshine: 2D, 3D and Multi-Touch Gestures Made Easier PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Chia Shen, Frédéric D. Vernier, Clifton Forlines, Meredith Ringel. "DiamondSpin: an extensible toolkit for around-the-table interaction", In CHI '04, p. 167-174. ACM DL Ref JO Wobbrock, AD Wilson, Y Li. "Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: a $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes", In UIST '07, p. 159-168. ACM DL Ref Dean Rubine, "Specifying Gestures by Example", Computer Graphics, Volume 25, Number 4, July 1991, p. 329-337. ACM DL Ref Recommended Readings: James A. Landay, Brad A. Myers. "Extending an existing user interface toolkit to support gesture recognition." CHI'93 extended abstracts, Pages: 91 - 92. ACM DL Ref T. Westeyn, H. Brashear, A. Atrash, and T. Starner. "Georgia tech gesture toolkit: supporting experiments in gesture recognition." In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, pages 85-92. ACM DL Ref Kent Lyons, Helene Brashear, Tracy Westeyn, Jung Soo Kim, and Thad Starner. "GART: The Gesture and Activity Recognition Toolkit." In Proceedings of HCI International, 2007. Springer Ref Additional Readings: Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay. "SATIN: a toolkit for informal ink-based applications." In UIST '00: CHI Letters, vol 2, issue 2, p. 63-72. ACM DL Ref J. Allan Christian Long, J. A. Landay, and L. A. Rowe. " Implications for a gesture design tool." In CHI '99, pages 40-47. ACM Press, 1999. ACM DL Ref Jun Rekimoto, "SmartSkin: an infrastructure for freehand manipulation on interactive surfaces", In SIGCHI '02, p. 113-120. (Note: this introduces multi-touch hardware support.) ACM DL Ref B MacIntyre, M Gandy, S Dow, JD Bolter. "DART: a toolkit for rapid design exploration of augmented reality experiences." ACM DL Ref RC Zeleznik, KP Herndon, JF Hughes. "SKETCH: An interface for sketching 3D scenes." In SIGGRAPH 96, p. 163-170. (Note: this is an example of using 3D widgets, not creating them). ACM DL Ref
Fri, May 1, 2009 NSH 1505	Last day of class Note: special room Special Topic Presentation 7 Stephen Oney: Overview of the Adobe Flex/2 architecture PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Waldron, R., "The Flash History", 2000. html Adobe, "Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and Adobe AIR" (VIDEO) Skim the following: Hager, C., Wolf, D., "Building RIAs from front to back - Part 1: Understanding the approach", 2008, html Hager, C., Wolf, D., "Building RIAs from front to back - Part 2: Layout beyond the standard container in Flex 2", 2008, html Optional: Nielson, J "Flash: 99% Bad", 2000. html Byrne, T. "The case against Flex-based application UIs" 2009. html Gay, J. "The history of Flash", 2001. html Rose, J. "Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions", 2007. html Homework 5 Due Final Questionnaire. Please also fill out the University's Assessment.

Official Spring, 2009 schedule:

Possible topics for student presentations (in no particular order):

1. Overview of the Adobe Flex/2 architecture
2. Overview of the current Microsoft architecture: WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Mobile, Live Mesh, etc.
3. Toolkits for Ubiquitous Computing, Context Awareness (and CSCW?)
4. Toolkits for CSCW
5. Toolkits for Phones, PDAs, Toys and Other Devices
6. Simple User Interface Toolkits: SUIT to Alice
7. Toolkit support for Gestural Input Techniques, Handwriting
8. Toolkits for supporting sound and speech recognition and generation
9. Toolkit support for games and 3D programming
10. Tool support for Web programming: jsp, asp, css, database access, flash, javascript, vbscript, etc.
11. Programming for Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): SOAP vs. REST
12. Toolkits for supporting vision, image recognition, pattern recognition from cameras as part of a user interface
13. Toolkits for physical objects: Saul Greenberg's Phidgets, Klemmer's Papier-Mache, Johnny Lee's Calder, etc.
14. Plug-In architectures (Photoshop, Illustrator?, Mozilla, Office, Eclipse, COM, etc.)
15. Toolkits for intelligent and adaptive interfaces
16. Toolkit support for Usability Evaluation

Topics covered in previous years (with the old reading list):

From 2004:

From 2003: