Non-Traditional User Interfaces

Harvey Mudd College CS182-1 Spring 2006

Welcome

Basic Information

Policies

Schedule

Course Content 

    Reading

    Responses

    Presentations

    Investigations

Schedule

Key: RR=Reading Response, I=Investigation, ID=Interaction Design, POET=The Psychology (Design) of Everday Things
Date Topic Reading Due Presenter(s)
Introduction to UI Design
Tue Jan 17 Introduction to UI Design ID Ch 1 Alvarado
Thu Jan 19 The Psychopathology of Everyday Things POET Ch 1 I1 Alvarado
Users and Tasks 
Tue Jan 24 Who's Going to Use It Anyway... ID Ch 6
POET Ch 2
Alvarado
Thu Jan 26 ... and What Are They Going To Do With It? ID Ch  7.1-7.3,
7.6-7.7, 9.4
Hu94
Alvarado
Tue Jan 31 Where's the Knowledge? POET Ch 3-4 I2 Alvarado
Design and Evaluation
Thu Feb 2 Evolutionary Design and Evaluation POET Ch 6
Go87
Alvarado
Tue Feb 7 Prototyping ID Ch 8.1-8.2
Re94
Alvarado
Thu Feb 9 User Modeling ID 14.5
Ca80
I3 Alvarado
Fri, Feb 10 OPTIONAL: Paper Prototype Construction
4-6pm (location TBA)
Alvarado
Tue Feb 14 Paper Prototyping Testing I4a Alvarado
Transition
Thu Feb 16 How to Read and Present a Research Paper Gris
Dra04

RR0 Alvarado
Tue Feb 21 Recognition in User Interfaces Rh90
Zu96
I4 Alvarado
Speech and Natural Language
Thu Feb 23 Speech-based interfaces La97
Se03
RR1 Selene, Jon
Tue Feb 28 Natural Language Interfaces Zu00
Ly04
RR2 Aaron, Steven
Thu Mar 2 Evaluating Speech/NL interfaces Da94
Kl00
RR3 Paul, Matt
Intelligent Agents
Tue Mar 7 Introduction to Agents/more on NL (Br97)

Alvarado
Thu Mar 9 Agents we Love to Hate (Ch90)
Ho98
Ba97
I5,
RR4
Ned, Jonny
Mar 10-19 Spring Break
Tue Mar 21 Agents vs. Direct Manipulation Shn97
Hor99
RR5 Steven, Selene
Ubiquitous Interfaces
Thu Mar 23 Introduction/Activity Wei91
Wei93

Alvarado
Tue Mar 28 Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) I Erl92
Abo98
RR6 Jon, Joe
Thu Mar 30 Ubicomp II Sal99
Koi03
RR7 Pyry, Paul
Tangible Interfaces
Tue Apr 4 Tangible UIs Ish97
Rek01
I6,
RR8
Matt, Pyry
Thu Apr 6 No Class Rho97
Mar03
RR9
Pen-Based Interfaces
Tue Apr 11 Introducation/Activity Hea98 Alvarado
Thu Apr 13 The Pen as a New Input Modality Sau03
Api04
RR10 Joe, Aaron
Tue Apr 18 Sketching and Recognition Lin00
Alv04

(New03)
I7,
RR11
Jason, Faith
Multi-Modal Interfaces
Thu Apr 20 Two modes is better than 1 Bol80
Ovi00
RR12 Jonny, Jason
Tue Apr 25 Beyond two modes of interaction Mor04
Bar05
RR13 Faith, Ned
Thu Apr 27 And Everything Else... I8 (due Friday) Alvarado