Schedule (Spring 19)
The course is mainly composed of lectures, readings, project assignments, and a mid-term exam. Pop quizes in relation to the required readings will be administered at the beginning of some classes. Lecture slides will be posted in Canvas soon after their corresponding class.
Note that some assignments are due right before class, others are due on non-regular meeting days. Students should consult the Canvas calendar to keep track of deadlines. There are no late days for the assignments.
The books referenced in the schedule are all available online through the Yale University Library:
- [RMiHCI] Jonathan Lazar. Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction
- [CD] Karen Holtzblatt & Hugh Beyer. Contextual Design : Design for Life
- [DoET] Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
Class-by-Class Schedule
Date | Topic / Activity | Assignment | Required Reading * | Grad. Reading * |
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Mon 01/14 | History of HCI. Why care about design? | |||
Wed 01/16 | Design Thinking | [RMiHCI, Ch. 1.1-1.6] | ||
Fri 01/18 | Ethnography, Contextual Inquiry & Design Research Methods | 1a: Proposal Brainstorm | [CD, Ch. 3: Principles of Contextual Inquiry] | Zimmerman et al., Research through design |
Mon 01/21 | No class. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. | |||
Tue 01/22 | No class. Assignment due day. | 1b: Project Proposal | ||
Wed 01/23 | Problem Space vs Solution Space (Revisited). Tasks 1 | Personas in the Encyclopedia of HCI (Sec. 30 - 30.5) | ||
Fri 01/25 | No class. Assignment due day. | 1c: Project Bid | ||
Mon 01/28 | Tasks 2 | |||
Wed 01/30 | Personas, Scenarios, Storyboarding | 2a: Project Ideation | UX Comics | |
Fri 02/01 | No class. Assignment due day. | 2b: Design of a Research Plan | ||
Mon 02/04 | Design of Everyday Things, Video Prototyping | [DoET, Ch. 6: The Design Challenge] | ||
Tue 02/05 | No class. Assignment due day. | 2c: Design Research Milestone | ||
Wed 02/06 | Paper Prototyping and Prototyping HRI | K. Dautenhahn, HRI (Sec. 38, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3) | G. Hoffman & W. Ju, Designing Robots With Movement in Mind (Sec. 1 - 4) | |
Mon 02/11 | Testing & Patterns | 2d: Design Research Review | [RMiHCI, Ch. 10: Usability Testing] | |
Wed 02/13 | Experiment Design | [RMiHCI, Ch. 2: Experimental Research] | ||
Fri 02/15 | No class. Assignment due day. | 2e: Task Review | ||
Mon 02/18 | Participants & Designing for Diverse Needs | [RMiHCI, Ch. 15: Working with Human Subjects] | Feng et al., Designing a Robot Guide for Blind People | |
Wed 02/20 | Designing Based on Human Performance | 2f: Design Milestone | ||
Mon 02/25 | Interface Implementation | 2g: Design Review | ||
Wed 02/27 | Tangible User Interfaces, Computational Fab | Ishii et al., Radical Atoms | Baudisch & Mueller. Personal Fabrication (Chapters 1 & 2) | |
Fri 03/01 | No class. Assignment due day. | 2h: Report of the Design Research | ||
Mon 03/04 | Group Presentations | 2i: Design Research Presentation | ||
Wed 03/06 | Midterm | |||
Mon 03/11 | No class. Spring Break | |||
Mon 03/13 | No class. Spring Break | |||
Mon 03/18 | No class. Spring Break | |||
Mon 03/20 | No class. Spring Break | |||
Mon 03/25 | Wizard of Oz (WoZ). Inspection-Based Methods (part I) | Lit. Review Milestone (grad. students only) | WoZ in HRI | The Oz of Wizard |
Tue 03/26 | No class. Assignment due day. | 3a: Low Fidelity Prototype | ||
Wed 03/27 | Inspection-Based Methods (part II. students bring prototype) | 3b: Heuristic Evaluation | ||
Mon 04/01 | Proxemics | 3c: Usability Testing Milestone | Greenberg et al., Proxemic Interactions: The New Ubicomp? | |
Wed 04/03 | Long-Term Interactions | |||
Thu 04/04 | No class. Assignment due day. | 3d: Usability Testing Review | ||
Mon 04/08 | Invited Lecture: Brian Scassellati | 3e: Design Mockup | ||
Wed 04/10 | AR/VR (Grad student presentations) | |||
Fri 04/12 | No class. Assignment due day. | 3f: Design Refinement Report | ||
Mon 04/15 | Crowdsourcing (Grad student presentations) | 4a: Initial Poster | ||
Wed 04/17 | Final Poster Presentation and Pitch | 4b: Final Poster Presentation and Pitch | ||
Fri 04/19 | No class. Assignment due day. | 4c: Initial Website | ||
Mon 04/22 | Video Critique | 4d: Video Prototype | ||
Wed 04/24 | Poster Presentation | 4e: Poster Session | ||
Thu 04/25 | No class. Assignment due day. | 4f: Final Video, and Final Website | ||
Fri 04/26 | No class. Assignment due day. | Lit. Review Report (grad. students only) |
* All required readings are due by the beginning of class for all students. Grad. readings are only mandatory for graduate students. Pop quizes about the readings will be administered throughout the semester.