INFSCI 2470 - Interactive System Design

(Spring 2007, CRN 16668)

INFSCI 2470 Course Materials

The materials for the future lectures are "best guess" and provided for better planning

Lecture	Objectives	Readings	Assignments
January 9, 2007 Lecture 1 Introduction Introduction to Java Applets	Introduction to the course. Logistics. Goals of the profession. History of Interfaces. Iterative design. Quick Introduction to Java. Applets. Drawing and writing on a Graphics Pane.	Newman and Lamming Chapter 1 Lewis and Rieman Introduction Therac-25 Incident Vincennes Incident London Ambulance Incident Deitel&Deitel Chapter 3	Homework 0 issued
January 16, 2007 Lecture 2 Human Virtual Machine Graphics Presentation in Java	The case for knowing Human Information Processing for Interactive System Design. Review of memory and processors functions. Java 2d Graphics in awt. Lines, colors, fonts, shapes, arches and polygons.	Newman and Lamming Chapter 3 Deitel&Deitel Chapter 11 Shneiderman Chapter 1 Preece-Rogers-Sharp Chapter 3	Homework 1 issued Homework 0 due
January 23, 2007 Lecture 3 Interaction Styles Introduction to Servlets	Overview of Interaction Styles and Paradigms. Command, Graphic, and Direct Manipulation Interfaces. Menus. Forms. Guidelines for Menu/Form interfaces. Client-Server approach, WWW as a client-server platform. HTTP protocol. Servlets. Simple Servlet Example. Forms and form data. Processing form data with doPost.	Newman and Lamming Chapter 12 Deitel&Deitel Chapter 19 (corresponding sections) Shneiderman: Chapter 7	Homework 2 issued Homework 1 due
January 30, 2007 Lecture 4 Interactive Programming Dialog Programming in Java; Java Event Processing and Widgets	Affordance and feedback. Event-Redraw Loop. Widgets and Models. Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The Big Picture of Interactive Programming. Modal Input Dialog. Modal dialogs: JOptionPane. Java Event Processing. AWT and Swing. Widgets. Button class.	Newman and Lamming Chapter 11 A tutorial on MVC design patter D&D Chapter 2; Chapter 12 (corresponding sections)
February 6, 2007 Lecture 5 Anatomy of the Interactive System Design Process	Specifying a design problem. Lifecycle models of interactive system design process: from waterfall to iterative models. A review of major ISD activities - User Study, Model building, Specification, Analysis of the design, Evaluation of the prototypes. Mapping between Java applets and applications. Label class. JColorChooser. Java Swing TextField and PasswordField. Checkboxes and Radio Buttons.	Newman and Lamming Chapters 2 and 4 Lewis and Rieman Chapter 1 D&D Chapter 12 (corresponding sections) Preece-Rogers-Sharp Chapter 6 Shneiderman Chapter 3	Homework 3 issued Homework 2 due
February 13, 2007 Lecture 8 Task Analysis and Task-centered design. Java Lists and Layouts	Understanding and modeling user activities. Task models. Systems analysis. The use of task models. Task-centered design. Plagiarizm and creativity in design. List. Combo box. Managing layouts. Nested panels.	Newman and Lamming Chapter 6 Lewis and Rieman: Chapter 2 Preece-Rogers-Sharp Chapter 7	Homework 3 design due
February 20, 2007 Lecture 6 Heuristic Analysis Advanced Interaction Techniques	Evaluating the design with and without the user. Nielson&Molich's heuristics. Filling Usability Aspect Reports. Practicing heuristic analysis Direct Manipulation. Programming by demonstration. Tangible interfaces	Newman and Lamming Section 8.6 Lewis and Rieman Chapter 4: Introduction and 4.3 Preece-Rogers-Sharp Section 13.46	Reading project issued Evaluation project issued Homework 3 due
February 27, 2007 Lecture 9 Extended Interface: Help, Manuals, Training	10th Heuristic. Interface elements. On-line Help. Documentation. Training. Hight-Functionality Applications. Peer help and intelligent help..	Lewis and Rieman Chapter 7 Adaptive Help Systems Shneiderman: Chapter 12	USTAD project issued Final project issued
March 6, 2007	Spring Break
March 13, 2007 Paper Project Presentation	First paper project presentation: Mobile and ubiquitous interfaces	Newman and Lamming Case Study A	First paper summary due
March 20, 2007 Lecture 7 User Studies Evaluation project presentation	Overview of User Studies. Interviews. Observations. Questionnaires. Experiments.	Newman and Lamming Chapters 5 and 10 Lewis and Rieman Chapter 5 Shneiderman Chapter 6: 6.1-6.3	Evaluation project due
March 27, 2007 Lecture 10 Analysis, Prototyping, Evaluation USTAD project presentation	Analysis and Evaluation in support of design. GOMS. Formal Action Analysis with GOMS. ACT-R. Informal action analysis. Cognitive Walkthrogh. Interface evaluation. Prototyping. Informal testing and field tests.	Newman and Lamming Chapter 8-9 Lewis and Rieman Chapter 3 and 4 Shneiderman: Chapter 2	USTAD project due
April 3, 2007 Lecture 11 Accommodating to Individual Users	Interaction and adaptation. Dimensions of differences. Adaptive systems and user modeling.	Shneiderman Chapter 1
April 10, 2007 Paper Project Presentation	Second paper project presentation: Personalized and adaptive interfaces		Second paper summary due
April 17, 2007 Lecture 12 Virtual Environments	Hypertext and Hypermedia. History of Hypertext. Navigation and navigation aids. Web usability issues. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality	Shneiderman Chapters 6 and 15
April 24, 2007 Final project presentation			Final project due