Draft, Sept. 24, 2000

 

ICS 105: Project in HCI and Interfaces
Visualization Software for Multidimensional Data

 

Topics covered in exams of 10/3 and 10/17

 

 

Abbreviations:
DR:    Joseph S. Dumas and Janice C. Redish: A Practical Guide To Usability Testing. Norwood, N.J. Ablex Publishing Corp.
                       Revised edition 1999, Intellect Ltd.
KST:  Geoffrey Keppel, William H. Saufley and Howard Tokunaga (1992): Introduction to Design and Analysis: A Student's Handbook.
                       Revised Second Edition, 1998.
K: Geoffrey Keppel (1991): Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook. 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

 

Exam of 10/3

DR:     Everything until and including Section 22 ("Communicating the Results")
              Lesser emphasis on chapters 3, 4, 21 and 22, and the first 10 pages of chapter 6 (organizational obstacles to usability testing)

 

Exam of 10/17

K: Chapters 1-5 (pp. 1-108). No need to fully understand every formula.

VERY gentle introduction for students with absolutley no stats background:
KST, Ch.1: Introduction to Experimental Design.
KST, Ch. 3: The Logic of Hypothesis Testing
KST, Ch. 6: Analytical Comparisons in the Single-Factor Design
KST, Ch. 8.3: Using Power to Estimate Sample Size