CS 160 Lectures

Lectures

Date	Topics (and Notes)	Readings	Assignment	Submit
Wed. 1/20/99	Introduction	Dix Intro (pp. 1-7)
Wed. 1/27/99	Project Description		1. Project Ideas
Mon. 2/1/99	User-Centered Design	Dix 5.1-5.2		1. Project Ideas
Wed. 2/3/99	Task Analysis Storyboard Examples	Dix 5.5, 7	2. Project Sketch
Mon. 2/8/99	Task Analysis (cont.)	Dix Ch. 7		2. Project Sketch
Wed. 2/10/99	Human Input/Output	Dix 1.1-1.2	3. Task Analysis
Mon. 2/22/99	Low-fidelity Prototyping	Dix 5.5 "Prototyping For Tiny Fingers" by Marc Rettig. (Color image of figure.)		3. Task Analysis
Wed. 2/24/99	Human Perception	Dix 1.1-1.2
Mon. 3/1/99	Design Principles and Guidelines	Dix 3.5-3.6, 3.8-3.10	4. Low-fi Prototyping
Wed. 3/3/99	Human Cognition	Dix 1.3-1.7
Mon 3/8/99	Midterm Review			4. Low-fi Prototyping
Wed 3/10/99	Midterm - in class
Mon 3/15/99	Interfaces and Dialogs
Wed. 3/17/99	Interface Toolkits	Dix Ch. 10	5. Interactive Prototype #1
Mon 3/29/99	Giving Presentations
Wed 3/31/99	EECS Colloquium
Mon 4/5/99	Toolkit Details: Layout Management, Event Models, and Data Models
Wed 4/7/99	Toolkit Details (cont'd)
Mon 4/12/99	Presentations - Teams 1-4			5. Interactive Prototype #1
Wed 4/14/99	Presentations - Teams 5-8		6. Heuristic Evaluation
Mon 4/19/99	Heuristic Evaluation	Dix Ch. 11	7. Interactive Prototype #2
Wed 4/21/99	Toolkit Details (cont'd)
Mon 4/26/99	Interface Evaluation Interface Testing			6. Heuristic Evaluation
Wed 4/28/99	Keystroke Level Model
Mon 5/3/99	Future Tools
Wed 5/5/99	Summary/The End
Mon 5/10/99	Final Presentations			7. Interactive Prototype #2
Wed 5/12/99	Final Review

Discussions

Fri.	Mon.	Topic	Readings
1/29/99	2/1/99	Usability Paradigms	Dix 4.1-4.2
2/5/99	2/8/99	Usability Principles	Dix 4.3-4.4
2/26/99	3/1/99	Techniques for Observing Users	"Some Techniques for Observing Users" by Kathleen Gomoll. Handed out in class.
3/5/99	3/8/99	Interacting with the Computer	Dix Ch. 2
3/12/99	3/15/99	Errors, Help, and Documentation	Dix Ch. 12
3/19/99	3/29/99	Widget Toolkits
4/2/99	4/5/99	Widget Layout and Communication
4/9/99	4/12/99	Designing for the Web (#1)
4/16/99	4/19/99	Designing for the Web (#2)
4/23/99	4/26/99	Research Topics in HCI