Disclaimer: These are guidelines
are intended to help students plan their work in this class.
However, the instructor does reserve the right to make
changes if needed, including students' signups.
General Educational Aims: This course provides an introduction to the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), with an emphasis on user interface design and evaluation. Students will learn methods for user needs and task analysis as well as interface testing, and guidelines for good user interface design.
Requirements: Graduate level. Students should have used computers and different software for at least one year☺.
Format: Lecture by instructor, quarter-long term project with internal and external clients, project presentations.
This
class vs. INF232: This class will focus on practical HCI skills and
training. It will cater to the needs of master students and of
those PhD students who are mostly interested in the practical
aspects of HCI.
The INF 232 class will instead cater to Ph.D. students who
intend to focus on HCI as a research
topic (MS students who are particularly qualified and
theoretically inclined can also be admitted). It will focus on
influential HCI literature, HCI theory, and current research
questions. A familiarity with basic HCI topics and methods will
be assumed.
Time and
Location:
Lecture: MW
2:00-3:20pm, MSTB 110.
Starts on Oct. 2
The discussions are mostly for
project meetings, sometimes with the customer. Register for one
discussion/project only. The instructor reserves the right
though to reassign students to ensure suitable head counts and
skill sets.
Discussion 1
(code 37341): M 9-10:50am MSTB
110 and F 9-10:50am DBH
1431. Starts on Oct. 6
This project aims for the design of a user interface for an application that assists released convicts in finding jobs. Special attention should be paid to the inclusion of real-time job information, peer-based social support, a GPS-based "check-in" function when at potential employers, and the integration of gamification elements to sustain user engagement over time. Students should develop early designs for the different system components, solicit feedback from the target audience, and consider this feedback during the development of an interactive mockup. Students should decide whether a standalone Android app or a browser extension for Facebook is the better approach.
Discussion 2
(code 37342): Tu 2-3:50pm MSTB
110 and Th 2-3:50pm SSL152. Starts on Oct. 3
The aim of the project is to look into the usefulness of an intelligent agent (chatbox) in a textual group collaboration, with the aim of improving the collaboration. The topic can be approached from different perspectives, and it is up to the student team to decide whether it is practical to achieve any or all of these goals:
- It has to start with an understanding or exploration of what the needs are in a group collaboration scenario. What kinds of collaborative tasks the group might need a chatbot's help, and how the chatbot can be designed to help. Given this is a class, the target user groups in this context could be student teams.
- It can be from the system design perspective. That the students from an engineering background to actually build a prototype using the existing programming frameworks or AI libraries (e.g., IBM, Microsoft, Google, or Facebook). In the target use case, this prototype chatbot can respond to or proactively intervene the group's behavior.
- It can be a Wizard of Oz study. With a script, a student plays as the chatbot/agent to interact or intervene a group's behavior.
- The study design can be a in-situ experiment or a lab experiment.
- It can also consist with survey or interview study.
Required readings:
Further readings at your leisure:
Grading: 50% for project
(partially peer
evaluation)
45% for final exam on Monday Dec 11 at 10:30-12:30pm
5% for homework
up
to
10% bonus for active in-class participation
up
to
10% penalty for for
missing customer/group presentations and customer meetings
Academic honesty: see here
Efficient reading: see here
Students with Disabilities: see here
Absences:
Medical, emergency: send email
with documentation
Professional: send email with
documentation beforehand
Adding/Dropping: Since the projects start right away, the class can only be
added/dropped until 12 noon on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
(drop it on WebReg, or send email to
instructor)
EEE Classmates: Please
release your photo and email address to your classmates
(this is useful for
collaboration and peer evaluation).
Course Evaluation: Midterm feedback form and final course evaluation
Course Notes: see here
Office hours: After class, or Mondays 3:30-4:30pm in 6091 Bren Hall (contact me in class or send email beforehand)
Announcements: You
should check your UCI email account regularly. If you prefer
to read your email on another account, you should set your
UCInetID account to forward your
Email to your preferred account.
Syllabus:
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(*) Codes for readings:
BCC ... Baxter, Courage and Caine
F&F...
Farkas & Farkas
R&C... Rubin
& Chisnell