Draft, 3/1/14
INF 132:
Project in HCI and Interfaces
Disclaimer:
These are guidelines
intended to help students plan their work in this course. However, the
instructor does reserve the right to make changes if needed.
Important note:
This class requires a high amount of
coursework.
- General
Educational Aims:
- Students will
learn and practice the process of user interface design and/or
evaluation. They will learn different methods for user interface
evaluation and experimental design. In concrete projects,
students will have to carefully chose between available
methods and apply them to obtain empirically verified evaluation
results. They will practice collaboration in teams, including the
presentation of the project results in oral
and written form.
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- Specific
Objective:
- At the
conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
- realize the importance of user-centered design, and formative and
summative evaluation
- choose between different methods for user interface evaluation
- select an appropriate experimental design
- carry out usability experiments
- have attained the ability to evaluate user interfaces of low and
medium complexity
- have familiarity with some of the outstanding research problems in
the field of Human-Computer Interaction
Prerequisites:
INF 131
Class
format:
Half of the
class will be lecture-format, and the other half will consist of
student demonstrations of the progress in their projects. Students will collaborate
in teams of 4 to 5,
depending on the total class enrollment and the project requirements.
- Location/Times:
MW 9:30- 10:50pm PCB 1200
Discussion (as needed): Tue
6-6:50pm ET 204
Readings:
Required
- Catherine
Courage and Kathy Baxter (2005): Understanding Your Users: A Practical
Guide to User Requirements -- Methods, Tools, & Techniques. Morgan
Kaufmann. ISBN
1-55860-935-0.
Also iBook,
Kindle,
Google
- Carol M.
Barnum (2010): Usability Testing Essentials. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0123750921. Also iBook,
Google,
Kindle.
Optional
- Jeffrey Rubin
and Dana Chisnell (2008): Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan,
Design, and Conduct Effective Tests. 2nd edition. John Wiley &
Sons. ISBN 978-0470185483.
- Joseph S.
Dumas and Janice C. Redish (1999): A Practical Guide To Usability
Testing. Norwood, N.J. Ablex Publishing Corp. Revised edition 1999,
Intellect Ltd.: ISBN 1841500208
- Elizabeth
Goodman, Mike
Kuniavsky, Andrea Moed (2008): Observing the User Experience: A
Practitioner's
Guide to User Research. 2nd edition. Morgan Kaufmann, 978-0123848697.
- Joseph S.
Dumas and Beth A. Loring (2008): Moderating Usability
Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting. Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 978-0123739339
The
readings are also available from a course reserve
in the Ayala Science Library and from the UCI
bookstore.
Projects: Sign up on EEE
Project 1 (1-2
teams): Geovisualization and timeline for incidents of violence
(Geoff Ward, gward @ uci)
Project 2 (1-2
teams): Contributing to database with incidents of violence (Geoff Ward, gward @
uci)
Project 3 (2
teams): Usability tests for the new search functionality of the UCI
Libraries website (Chris Davis,
cndavis @ uci)
Project 4 (2
teams): Project management tool for UCI Distance Learning Center
(Mathew.Williams @ unx.uci)
Project 5: Redesign of a CS education website (Debra
Richardson, debra.richardson @ uci)
Project 6:
Redesigning the website of the UCI Center for Citizen Peacebuilding
(Paula Garb, pgarb@uci.edu @ ics.uci)
Project 7: (2 teams) Redesigning UCI's Civic and Community Engagement website
(Gillian Hayes, gillianrh@ics.uci.edu)
Grading:
70% for
project work (team score, unless vetoed)
30% for
final exam
up to 10%
bonus for active in-class participation
up to 10%
negative points for
missing customer/group presentations
and meetings
Efficient reading: see here
Cheating: see here
Students with Disabilities: see here
Add/drop: By
Tuesday 4/1 midnight (send email
to instructor to request code)
Course Evaluation:
Hours:
Alfred
Kobsa: after class, or Monday 8:30-9:30 in
5092 Bren
Hall (send email if you plan to come)
Dakuo Wang: Tuesdays
6-6:50pm, SSPA
1200?
Syllabus
(changes possible)
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- Discussion
sessions are normally for meetings with the team, customer or TA
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Legend:
B = Carol Barnum (2010)
C&B = Catherine
Courage and Kathy Baxter (2005)
B Ch.7 = Chapter 7 of Carol Barnum (2010)
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