Inf 235: Advanced User Interface Architecture

Spring 2008
Mondays 9:00-11:50pm
Location: ICS 253

Instructor
Professor: Bill Tomlinson
Email: wmt@uci.edu
Office: Bren Hall 5068
Office Phone: (949) 824-9333
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00pm in Bren Hall 5068 or by appointment.
Course Web Site: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wmt/courses/Inf235S08/

Overview
This course discusses architectural concerns in advanced interactive systems. In particular, the course this quarter will examine how environmental issues currently inform the architecture and design of user interfaces, and how these issues could affect them in the future. In addition to seminar discussions, this course will include a significant implementation and/or analytical project to give students first-hand engagement with the material.

Schedule
Week Date Topic Readings Due Assignments
1 March 31 Introduction    
2 April 7 No Class - ACM CHI conference None  
3 April 14 Sustainable Interface Design Blevis + TBA Select Teams (April 18)
4 April 21 Interfaces for Community Organizing Mankoff + TBA  
5 April 28 Environmental Issues & Mobile Devices Huang + TBA  
6 May 5 Presentation of proposals None Present proposal for Final Project, due in class
7 May 12 Ewaste & Recycling Jain + TBA  
8 May 19 Presentation of prototypes None Present Final Project prototype, due in class
9 May 26
(Memorial Day -
Class rescheduled to
May 30, 9:00-11:50)		 Globalization Bowers + TBA  
10 June 2 Presentation of Final Projects None Final Project presentation due
Exam Week June 9 No class None Report on Final Project due

Assignments, Handouts and Links
Prof. Tomlinson or the students leading discussion will provide assignments at least a week before they are due. Assignments are due in class on the due date specified, unless otherwise specified.


Readings
Blevis, E. (2007) Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 503-512.

Mankoff, J, Matthews, D., Fussell, S. R., and Johnson, M. (2007) Leveraging Social Networks to Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints. HICSS 2007.

Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008) Breaking the paradigm of disposable technology: Opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones. To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy.

Jain, R., Wullert J. (2002) Challenges: Environmental Design for Pervasive Computing Systems. Proc. Mobile Computing and Networking (2002), 263-270.

Bowers, C. (1990) How Computers Contribute to the Ecological Crisis. Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility, Vol. 8, 3, Summer 1990, pp. 5-8. (only the Bowers section)

Grading
Class Presentation = 40%
Final Project = 40%
Class Participation = 20%

Computer and Network Use Policy
When working on UCI systems, you are bound by the UCI Computer and Network Use Policy.

Add/Drop
Students will not be permitted to add or drop this course after the beginning of class on April 14.

Note
These are guidelines intended to help students plan their work in this course. However, the instructor reserves the right to make changes to this syllabus over the course of the quarter.