Informatics 131: Human Computer Interaction

Winter 2006-2007

Department of Informatics

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

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Assignment Schedule:

 

Weekly Reading
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January 5
         

Lecture 01

Lecture Notes

Week #1
8
9
10
11
12

DUI: Chapter 1

Things:1-2

Lecture 02:

Notes

Slides

 

Section 01:

Topic: Introductions and Expectations

*Assignment #1a due

*Survey due

Lecture 03:

Notes

Slides

 

 
Week #2
15
16
17
18
19

DUI: Chapter 2

Things:3-4

Technology for the Care Networks of Seniors

Guest Lecture 05

Fish N' Steps

StoryMixer

 

Lecture 06

Notes

Slides

Week #3
22
23
24
25
26

DUI: Chapter 4

Things:5-6

Lecture 07

Notes

Slides

*Test of Weeks #1, #2

Good answers

*Design Notebook due

Lecture 08

Notes

Slides

*"Mid-course" Evaluation due

(extra credit for participation)

 

 

Lecture 09

Notes

Slides

Week #4
29
30
31
February 1
2

DUI: Chapter 6.1-6.3

Things:7-8

Lecture 10

Notes

Slides

Section 04:

Topic: A new form of computing?

Notes

Slides

1. Considerate Computing

2. A Manifesto for Networked Objects – Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids ad Aibos in The Internet of Things

3. Attractive Things work better

Lecture 11

Notes

Slides

 

Guest Lecture:

Jennifer Rode

former TiVo Usability Test Engineer

Slides

Week #5
5
6
7
8
9

DUI: Chapter 7

Things:9-10

Documents at Hand: Learning from Paper to Improve Digital Technologies

Lecture 13

Notes

Slides

Lecture14

Notes

Slides

 

Lecture 15

Sterling Discussion

Notes

Slides

Photographs

A, B,C,D,E,F,G

Week #6
12
13
14
15
16

DUI: Chapter 9

Things:11-12

Lecture 16

Notes

Slides

*Test of Chapter 4, 6.1-6.3, Lectures and Sterling up to and including Chapter 8.

*Design Notebook due

Lecture 17

Notes

Slides

 

Lecture 18

Notes

Slides

Week #7
19
20
21
22
23

DUI: Chapter 11

Things:13-14

Holiday: President's Day
Section 07

Topic: Games and Playful Interactions

Lecture 19

Notes

Slides

 

Lecture 20

Notes

Slides

Week #8
26
27
28
March 1
2

DUI: Chapter 12

Things:15-16

Ambiguity as a Resource for Design

Lecture 21

Notes

Slides

Lecture 22

Notes

Slides

 
Week #9
5
6
7
8
9

 

Things:17-18

Lecture 24

Notes

Slides

Test of Chapter 2, Chapter 9, Sterling 9 and 10, "Documents" and associated lectures

Lecture 25

Notes

Slides

 

Lecture 26

Notes

Slides

Week #10
12
13
14
15
16

 

Watch Sterling Podcast

Lecture 27

Notes

Slides

Section 9

Slides

Topic: Tangible and Ambient Media

Lecture 28

Notes

Slides

 

Lecture 29

Notes

Slides

Photographs

A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I

* Assignment #4 due

* Design Notebook due

Course Recap

 
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Final Exam:

8:00am - 10:00am

   

ToDo: Link in these papers:

 

Games and playful interactions

Duchenaut, N., Yee, N., Nickell, E., Moore, R.J. 2006, „Alone Together?” Exploring the Social Dynamics of Massively Multiplayer Online Games, in Proceedings of CHI

Paulos, E. and Goodman, E. 2003, The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort and Play in Public Places, IRB-TR-03-038

Pearce, C. 2006, Productive Play – Game Culture From the Bottom Up, Games and Culture, Vol.1, No.1, 17-24

Ambient and Tangible Media

Presentation of projects in the field, sharing pictures and experiences from AEC (Ars Electronica Center)

Wisneski, C., Ishii, H., Dahley, A., Gobert, M., Brave, S., Ullmer, B., Yarin, P., Ambient Displays: Turning Architectural Space into an interface between People and Digital Information, First International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, Springer 1998

Prante, T., Stenzel, R., Roecker, C., Streitz, N., Magerkurth, C., Ambient Agoras – InfoRiver, SIAM, Hello.Wall, CHI 2004

Ratti, C., Ishii, H., Frenchman, D., Wang, Y., Piper, B., Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs): A Novel Paradigm for GIS, Transactions in GIS, 2004