Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 15:19:24 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html CSE 590H Home Page

CSE 590H: Human-Computer Interaction

Spring 1995


Instructor: Alan Borning

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-3:20, or whenever the door is open

TA: Ben Dugan

Meeting Time and Place:

12:00 - 1:20 in Sieg 224 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.


Welcome to the 590H Home Page!

This is the home page for CSE 590H, an experimental course focussing on issues in Human-Computer Interaction. The page will evolve as the quarter goes on -- criticism and suggestions are very welcome. Please contact brd@cs.


General Information


Lecture Notes

  1. Analytic Tradition Lecture (3/30)
  2. Tools For User Interface Design and Construction (4/4)
  3. Ethnography and Design (4/6) (Slides)
  4. Participatory Design (4/11)
  5. Psychological Foundations (4/18)
  6. Metaphor (5/2)
  7. Wittgenstein (5/16)
  8. Smalltalk and the Xerox Star (5/23)


Assignments

  1. Design Sensitivity
  2. Observation, Task Analysis
  3. Midterm project presentations


Course Project

Guidelines for the project component of the course.

A summary of the project ideas that have been suggested so far.

Final project reports.


Related Web Sites

I don't want to duplicate all of Aaron's great work, so for now, here's a pointer to the University of Washington UI Students' Web (which is a good starting point).

Lauren Bricker's CSCL (Computer Supported Cooperative Learning) page.

Three interesting papers from Lancaster Univ. about ethnography:


Portions of the CSE 590h Web may be reprinted or adapted for academic nonprofit purposes, providing the source is accurately quoted and duly credited. The CSE 590h Web: Copyright 1995, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.