INFSCI 2470 - Interactive System Design

January 9, 2014

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

Shneiderman
Chapter 1: 1.1-1.4

Therac-25 Incident
Vincennes Incident
London Ambulance Incident

Deitel&Deitel
Chapter 3

January 16, 2014

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

Preece-Rogers-Sharp
Chapter 3

Deitel&Deitel
Chapter 11

Homework 2 issued

Homework 1 due

January 23, 2014

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

Shneiderman
Chapter 7

Deitel&Deitel
Chapter 19 (corresponding sections)

Homework 3 issued

Homework 2 due

January 30, 2014

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)

Homework 3 design due

February 6, 2014

Lecture 5

Anatomy of the Interactive System Design Process

Java Lists and Layouts

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.

List. Combo box. Managing layouts. Nested panels.

Newman and Lamming
Chapters 2 and 4

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 1

Preece-Rogers-Sharp
Chapter 6

Shneiderman
Chapter 3

D&D
Chapter 12 (corresponding sections)

Homework 3 due

Homework 4 issued

Final project issued

February 13, 2014

Lecture 6

Heuristic Analysis

Evaluating the design with and without the user. Nielson&Molich's heuristics. Filling Usability Aspect Reports. Practicing heuristic analysis

Newman and Lamming
Section 8.6

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 4: Introduction and 4.3

Preece-Rogers-Sharp
Section 13.46

February 20, 2014

Lecture 8

Task Analysis and Task-centered design.

Java Applications, Selection widgets

Understanding and modeling user activities. Task models. Systems analysis.

Mapping between Java applets and applications. Label class. JColorChooser. Java Swing TextField and PasswordField. Checkboxes and Radio Buttons.

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 6

Lewis and Rieman:
Chapter 2

Preece-Rogers-Sharp
Chapter 7

D&D
Chapter 12 (corresponding sections)

Homework 4 extra credit presentations due

Groups and topics for evaluation project reported

February 27, 2014

Lecture 7

User Studies

Overview of User Studies. Interviews. Observations. Comtextual Enquires. Questionnaires. Experiments.

Newman and Lamming
Chapters 5 (Chapter 10 optional)

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 5

Shneiderman
Chapter 4

Homework 4 due

Groups for the final project reported

Evaluation project presentation

Final project topic reported

March 13, 2014

Spring Break

March 20, 2014

Lecture 9

Extended Interface:
Help, Manuals, Training

First Project Design Presentation Slot

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 13

Final Project Design Due

March 27, 2014

Lecture 10

Analysis, Prototyping, Evaluation

Second Project Design Presentation Slot

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

April 3, 2014

Lecture 11

Accommodating to Individual Users

Shneiderman
Chapter 1: 1.5

April 10, 2014

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: 6.4-6.6

Lecture 13

Advanced Interaction Techniques

Shneiderman
Chapter 6: 6.1-6.3

Final project presentation