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January 7, 2018 Lecture 1 Introduction Introduction to Java Applets Dialog Programming in Java |
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. Modal Input Dialog. Modal dialogs: JOptionPane. |
Newman and Lamming Lewis and Rieman Shneiderman Therac-25
Incident Deitel&Deitel |
Homework 1 issued |
January 14, 2018 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 Preece-Rogers-Sharp Deitel&Deitel |
Homework 2 issued Final project issued Homework 1 due |
January 21, 2018 |
No Classes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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January 28, 2018 Lecture 3 Interaction Styles Java Event Processing and Widgets |
Overview of Interaction Styles and Paradigms. Command, Graphic, and Direct Manipulation Interfaces. Menus. Forms. Guidelines for Menu/Form interfaces. Mapping between Java applets and applications. Java Event Processing. AWT and Swing. Widgets. Button class. |
Newman and Lamming Shneiderman |
Homework 3 issued Homework 2 due |
January 28, 2018 Lecture 4 Interactive Programming Selection widgets
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Affordance and feedback. Event-Redraw Loop. Widgets and Models. Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The Big Picture of Interactive Programming. Label class. JColorChooser. Java Swing TextField and PasswordField. Checkboxes and Radio Buttons. List. Combo box. Managing layouts. Nested panels. |
Newman and Lamming A tutorial on MVC design patter D&D |
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February 4, 2018 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.
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Newman and Lamming Lewis and Rieman Preece-Rogers-Sharp Shneiderman D&D
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Final project groups reported
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February 11, 2018 Lecture 6 Heuristic Analysis
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Evaluating the design with and without the user. Nielson&Molich's heuristics. Filling Usability Aspect Reports. Practicing heuristic analysis
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Newman and Lamming Lewis and Rieman Preece-Rogers-Sharp
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Evaluation project issued
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February 18, 2018 Lecture 7 User Studies |
Evaluation project presentation Overview of User Studies. Interviews. Observations. Comtextual Enquires. Questionnaires. Experiments. |
Newman and Lamming Lewis and Rieman Shneiderman
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Final project topics reported |
February 25, 2018 Lecture 8 Task Analysis and Task-centered design Evaluation Project Presentation |
Understanding and modeling user activities. Task models. Systems analysis. |
Newman and Lamming Lewis and Rieman: Preece-Rogers-Sharp |
Evaluation Project Due |
March 4, 2018 Lecture 8 Personas in design Project Design Presentation |
Personas in design, history and application of the approach |
Final Project Design Due |
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March 11, 2018 |
Spring Break |
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March 18, 2018 |
No Class |
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March 25, 2018 Lecture 9 Extended Interface: Lecture 10 Interface Analysis and Evaluation |
10th Heuristic. Interface elements. On-line Help. Documentation. Training. Hight-Functionality Applications. Peer help and intelligent help. Analysis and Evaluation in support of design. GOMS. Formal Action Analysis with GOMS. ACT-R. Informal action analysis. Cognitive Walkthrogh. Interface evaluation. Informal testing and field tests.
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Lewis and Rieman Shneiderman: Newman and Lamming Shneiderman: |
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April 1, 2018 Lecture 11 Accommodating to Individual Users |
Interaction and adaptation. Dimensions of differences. Adaptive systems |
Shneiderman |
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April 8, 2018 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 Jacobson's |
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April 15, 2018
Lecture 13 Advanced Interaction Techniques |
Direct Manipulation. Programming by demonstration. Tangible interfaces, Future of interfaces. |
Shneiderman |
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April 22 2018
Final project presentation |
Final project presentations, reports. and installations due |