INFSCI 2470 - Interactive System Design

January 25, 2021

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. Drawing and writing on a Graphics Pane.

Modal Input Dialog. Modal dialogs: JOptionPane.

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 1

Lewis and Rieman
Introduction

Shneiderman
Chapter 1: 1.1-1.4, 1.6

Therac-25 Incident
Vincennes Incident
London Ambulance Incident
Overdose Incident

Deitel&Deitel
Chapters 2, 3

February 1, 2021

Lecture 2

Human Virtual Machine

The case for knowing Human Information Processing for Interactive System Design. Review of memory and processors functions.

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 3

Preece-Rogers-Sharp
Chapter 3

Homework 2 issued

Homework 1 due

February 8, 2021

Lecture 3

Interaction Styles

Overview of Interaction Styles and Paradigms. Command, Graphic, and Direct Manipulation Interfaces. Menus. Forms. Guidelines for Menu/Form interfaces.

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 12

Shneiderman
Chapter 7

February 15, 2021

Lecture 4

Interactive Programming

Affordance and feedback. Event-Redraw Loop. Widgets and Models. Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The Big Picture of Interactive Programming.

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 11

A tutorial on MVC design patter

February 22, 2021

Lecture 5

Anatomy of the Interactive System Design Process

Personas in design

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.

Personas in design, history and application of the approach

Newman and Lamming
Chapters 2 and 4

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 1

Preece-Rogers-Sharp
Chapter 6

Shneiderman
Chapter 3, Chapter 7

Personas at usability.gov

Personas at interaction-design.org

Final project issued

March 1, 2021

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

Evaluation project issued

March 8, 2021

Lecture 7

User Studies

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

Newman and Lamming
Chapters 5 (Chapter 10 optional)

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 5

Shneiderman
Chapter 4

Final Project Groups Reported

March 15, 2021

Evaluation Project Presentation

Evaluation project presentation

Evaluation Project Due

Final project topics reported

March 22, 2021

Lecture 8

Task Analysis and Task-centered design

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

Final Project Design Presentation

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 6

Lewis and Rieman:
Chapter 2

Preece-Rogers-Sharp

Final Project Design Due

March 29, 2021

Lecture 9

Extended Interface:
Help, Manuals, Training

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 Walkthrough. Interface evaluation. Informal testing and field tests.

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 7

Adaptive Help Systems

Shneiderman:
Chapter 13

Newman and Lamming
Chapter 8-9

Lewis and Rieman
Chapter 3 and 4

Shneiderman:
Chapter 2

April 5, 2021

Lecture 11

Accommodating to Individual Users

Interaction and adaptation. Dimensions of differences. Adaptive systems

Shneiderman
Chapter 1: 1.5

April 12, 2021

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

Jacobson's
Virtial Worlds Lecture

Lecture 13

Advanced Interaction Techniques

Direct Manipulation. Programming by demonstration. Tangible interfaces, Future of interfaces.

Shneiderman
Chapter 6: 6.1-6.3

Final project presentation