Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:49:34 GMT Server: Apache/1.0.5 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2677 Last-modified: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:29:14 GMT CS447. Interaction Design Project

CS447. Interaction Design Project (same as ME 293)

Stanford University 95-96 (may not be offered other years)


Instructors:
Ellen Tauber, Interval Research Corporation
Terry Winograd, Computer Science
David Kelley, Product Design/Mechanical Engineering


Time Schedule Information:
CS447A/ME293A, Winter 1996
1 unit, Thursday 4:15-5:45 PM, History, room 217

CS447B/ME293B, Spring 1996
5 units, time and place to be announced


Course Description:
Students work in small, interdisciplinary project teams to develop innovative technology prototypes to be submitted to an international student design event sponsored by Interval Research Corporation.

Course material will focus on software and hardware interfaces, interaction, and design aesthetics, as well as some of the underpinnings of successful design: a reflective, iterative design process, group dynamics of effective interdisciplinary teamwork, and working with users. Group work and opportunities to develop skills by identifying resources.

Students from a wide variety of disciplines, including Computer Science, the Design Division of Mechanical Engineering, the Social Sciences (for example, communication, psychology, education), and the professional schools, including Business and Medicine, are encouraged to join the class and can play a major role in the success of their teams.

Because the course is based on interdisciplinary teams, there is no general pre-requisite. Rather, students should have depth of knowledge in one of the relevant disciplines. The spring quarter course will be limited to 25 students and requires that the student have taken the winter quarter course. Priority will be given to those who will not be able to take the course in the future, and by needs to balance the teams by discipline.


Click here for course syllabus.


Click here for list of HCI courses at Stanford
Information provided for the Stanford Computer Science Department by the HCI Course Coordinator as part of the description of HCI at Stanford. Last updated January 16, 1996.