C SC 481.06: Special Topics: User Interface Design
Winter 2004
Pete Sanderson

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Winter 2004 schedule with links to lecture notes

The following schedule is approximate.  Revisions will be posted below.

Week
Dates
Chapter
  Lecture Topics
1
Jan 5-9
 
 Introduction and Overview
UID, HCI and Interaction Design
A concise history of HCI
2
Jan 12-16
1, 2
 HCI principles and examples of bad design
User-centered and goal-oriented design
The Butler metaphor
3
Jan 19-23
3, 4
 January 19 : ML King Day - class will not meet
Design guidelines
 
4
Jan 26-30
5, 6
 Collaborative and iterative software development process
Task analysis and flow
 
5
Feb 2-6
7, 8
 UI layout and specification
GUI controls
Software structures for event-driven programming
6
Feb 9-13
9, 10
 February 9 : last day to drop without grade
Assessment and evaluation
Usability testing and usage studies
7
Feb 16-20
 
 Accommodating disabilities and cultures
Ethical responsibilities
 
8
Feb 23-27
 
 February 23 : last day to drop with W grade
Style guides
User interface toolkits
9
March 1-5
 
 Hypermedia
Virtual reality and video games
March 4-5 : SIGCSE conference - class will not meet
10
March 8-12
 
 Adaptive and multimodel interfaces
Intelligent agents and avatars
Collaborative interfaces and groupware
Finals
March 15
    Final Project Presentations.  8 am Monday March 15.

Revisions
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