ICS 227 Advanced User Interface Architecture Class Home Page
→ Class Home Academic Honesty Papers Projects Presentations Announcements Resources Links	Administrative Information Instructor: David Redmiles Electronic Mail: redmiles@ics.uci.edu Office: ICS2-215 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3:50; but please check my schedule on my home page in case I am traveling. Lecture: Tu Th 17:00-18:20 Classroom: CS 174 Course Code: 36725
	Course Description and Prerequisites 227 Advanced User Interface Architecture (4). Architectural concerns in advanced interactive systems. The design of current and emerging platforms for novel interactive systems. Paradigms such as constraint-based programming, multimodal interaction, and perceptual user interfaces for individual, distributed, and ubiquitous applications. Informal Course Description This course will focus primarily on the architecture of different kinds of user interfaces to software systems. Keeping the “human in the loop” is a key to all of these. But there are a great variety of systems, usually with different architectural considerations and software implementation platforms. Natural language interfaces, text-based systems, groupware, knowledge-based systems, tutoring systems—all have differences that we will explore.
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	Course Mechanics and Grading Students will implement a user interface software project over the course of the quarter. They will participate in at least three presentations about this project. The first presentation will be a description of their project idea. The second will be a detailed description (possibly as a collaborative presentation) of the implementation platform for the project. The third presentation will be the final presentation of the project. The project will need to be documented appropriately according to the developers' and users' perspectives. Generally, class will consist one-half to three-quarters of discussion of a paper or papers with the remainder of the class focusing on discussion of students' projects and status. Grading 20% Class Participation 40% Class Presentations/Assignments 40% Term Project Presentations/Assignments Project Bid - Written Assignment - 2 pages due Tuesday Week 3 Platform Discussion - In Class Group Presentation starting Week 3 Project Update - Brief Demonstration – Beginning Week 6 Final Project Report with code (and potential demonstration) - Due Finals Week The term project takes the place of a final—i.e., no final exam.