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PowerPoint slides for Lecture 1
Video of lecture 1 (or MP4 download (1.1GB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 1

• Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83. PDF
• CD Text, Chapter 1
• Nielsen Text: Chapters 1, 2

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 2
Video of lecture 2 (or MP4 download (408MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 3
  

• CD Text, Chapters 5-7
• Karen Cross, Adrienne Warmack, and Brad Myers. "Lessons Learned: Using Contextual Inquiry Analysis to Improve PDA Control of Presentations". Unpublished. PDF

3. Contextual Analysis/Design Methodology, cont.

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 3
Video of lecture 3 (or MP4 download (305MB))

Movie (88.5 MB) for in-class CI demonstration (mpeg file)
Powerpoint slides of main points in the video

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 6
  

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapters 4, 17
• CD Text, chapters 8-10

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 4
Video of lecture 4 (or MP4 download (312MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 7, 8, 11
• Bill Buxton, "What Sketches (and Prototypes) Are and Are Not", in CHI 2006 One-Day Workshop on "Sketching" Nurturing Creativity: Commonalities in Art, Design, Engineering and Research, Sunday, April 23, 2006, Montreal, Canada. 2 pages. Local PDF

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 5, 15
• Norman book (all chapters)
• Nielsen's text, Chapter 4
• Marc Rettig, "Prototyping for tiny fingers", Communications of the ACM, Volume 37 , Issue 4 (April 1994), Pages: 21 - 27. Unpublished. PDF
• Brad Myers, Sun Young Park, Yoko Nakano, Greg Mueller, Andrew Ko, "How Designers Design and Prototype Interactive Behaviors". 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC'08. Sept 15-18, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 177-184. Local PDF (See also the original survey.)
• Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, videotape of his talk on "Sketching and Experience Design", June 1, 2007, for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). Video (1 hr, 30 min)
• Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. San Francisco, CA, Morgan Kaufmann. 2007. Amazon

5. How to Design a Good Usability Evaluation

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 5
Video of lecture 5 (or MP4 download (346MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapters 12, 14
• James Hom, "The Usability Methods Toolbox". Online in HTML . In particular, sections: General Concepts of Usability Testing and Thinking Aloud Protocol.

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapters 16, 18
• Nielsen's text: Chapters 6, 7
• CD Text: Chapters 17-20
• Kathleen Gomoll, "Some Techniques for Observing Users," From The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Brenda Laurel, ed. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. pp. 85- 90. PDF

Pdf of slides for Lecture 6
Video of lecture 6 (or MP4 download (333MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 17

• by Prof. Steven Dow

An interface is the link between a user and a product that communicates how a product will be used and creates an experience for the people who will use it. Interaction design is the process of creating and defining product behavior, encompassing both usability and aesthetic dimensions of an artifact, service, or environment.

In this lecture, we will explore issues that pertain to the design of interfaces. Students will be introduced to interface and interaction design fundamentals as applied to visual interfaces, including use of design systems, typography, color, scale, ordering, hierarchy, and repetition. They will also gain an understanding of the design process for creating interface designs.

Turn in Homework 2.
Start on Homework 3.

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 7
Video of lecture 7 (or MP4 download (200MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapters 9

8. Evaluation using Heuristic Analysis

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 8
Video of lecture 8 (or MP4 download (390MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 10, 13, 22
• Jakob Nielsen, Heuristic Evaluation. On line in HTML . Includes List of 10 Heuristics.

• Nielsen Text: Chapter 5
• Jakob Nielsen, "Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier", Cost-Justifying Usability, edited by Randolph G. Bias and Deborah J. Mayhew. On line in HTML
• Rolf Molich and Jakob Nielsen. "Improving a human-computer dialogue", Communications of the ACM, March 1990. Volume 33 Issue 3. pp. 338 - 348. ACM DL PDF
• John D. Gould and Clayton Lewis. "Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think," Communications of the ACM. Volume 28 , Issue 3 (March 1985), pp. 300 - 311. ACM DL PDF
• Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich. "Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces," Proceedings CHI'90, Human factors in computing systems, 1990. Seattle, Washington ACM DL PDF

Turn in Homework 3.
Start on Homework 4.

9. Usability Engineering Process

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 9
Video of lecture 9 (or MP4 download (250MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapter 19

• Hartson-Pyla text: Chapters 2, 21, 23, 24
• Nielsen's text: Chapters 6, 7
• CD Text: Chapters 2-4
• John D. Gould and Clayton Lewis. "Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think," Communications of the ACM. Volume 28 , Issue 3 (March 1985), pp. 300 - 311. ACM DL PDF
• Budwig, M., Jeong, S. and Kelkar, K. When user experience met agile: a case study. In Proceedings of CHI'2009: The 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (Boston, MA, USA, 2009). ACM, 3075-3084. ACM DL PDF

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 10
Video of lecture 10 (or MP4 download (264MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Sidebar on pp. 51-53 in section 2.1.3
• Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

• Nielsen Text: Chapters 11-16

Turn in Homework 4.
Start on Homework 5.

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 11
Video of lecture 11 (or MP4 download (317MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: Sidebar on pp. 104-106 in section 3.3.1, Sidebar on pp. 690-691 in section 22.1.1
• International Sites: Minimum Requirements
• Mobile Usability

• Nielsen Text: Chapter 9

Course Evaluation day. Please fill out both:

• The official Heinz course evaluation at https://students.heinz.cmu.edu/WebFCE/
• The class-specific questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GKRDC2X

PowerPoint slides for Lecture 13
Video of lecture 13 (or MP4 download (388MB))

Required Readings:

• Hartson-Pyla text: 1.6.5, 6.6.4, 6.12, 7.5
• Scott Davidoff, Min Kyung Lee, Anind K. Dey, and John Zimmerman. 2007. Rapidly exploring application design through speed dating. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp '07), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 429-446. pdf

• Nielsen Text: Chapter 7
• Bill Gaver, Tony Dunne, & E Pacenti, Design: Cultural Probes, ACM Interactions. vol. 6, no. 1, 1999, pp. 21-29. ACM DL PDF
• John, B. E. (2003) "Information processing and skilled behavior." Chapter 4 In J. M. Carroll, (Ed.), Toward a multidisciplinary science of human computer interaction. Morgan Kaufman. pp. 55-101. Local CMU-only copy (GOMS, KLM)
• Marion Buchenau and Jane Fulton Suri. 2000. "Experience prototyping." In Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques (DIS '00), pp. 424-433. ACM DL PDF (Bodystorming)
• Clayton Lewis and John Rieman, "4.1. Cognitive Walkthroughs", in Task-Centered User Interface Design; A Practical Introduction (on-line book), 1994. html
• T. R. G. Green and M. Petre. Usability analysis of visual programming environments: A ‘cognitive dimensions’ framework. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 7:131-174, 1996. pdf

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