Schedule

Deadlines throughout the semester

• Reading/Watching/etc. responses are due by 12pm on the deadline day.
• Visitor questions are due by 5pm the day before their visit in the #questions channel on Slack. Voting on questions (with emoji) should be completed by 11am the day of their visit.
• Design activity deadlines are due before class begins: 3pm.

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Week 1: HCI and HCD

Tu. 1/15 | Intro to Human-Computer Interaction

• Hi.
• ASSIGNED: Good/Bad Design

Th. 1/17 | Human-Centered Design

• READ: Our Syllabus
• READ (14 pages): Excerpt from: Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”
• Find something else online about “Human-Centered Design”. It can be an example, a further description, or even a critique.

Week 2: Defining Problem and Design Spaces

Tu. 1/22 | Need finding + Task Analysis

• DUE: Good/Bad Design (don’t forget to bring printouts)
• READ: How to Understand Problems by Amy J. Ko
• READ: How to Define Problems by Amy J. Ko

OPTIONAL (Look through at least 1 of the following)

• WATCH (4 minutes): EXAMPLE: Contextual Inquiry: Workforce Mobility
• WATCH (12 minutes): Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway
• WATCH (3 minutes): Insight Through Need-finding
• READ: Needfinding cheat sheet
• READ: Become Your Users
• READ: Task Analysis Tips

Th. 1/24 | Prototyping + Ideation

• ASSIGNED: Design For Others Design Sprint
• READ: How to be Creative by Amy J. Ko
• READ: How to Prototype by Amy J. Ko
• READ (17 pages): The anatomy of sketching (Bill Buxton)

OPTIONAL (Look through at least 1 of the following)

• READ (9 minutes): Why you should be prototyping (Netflix)
• WATCH (11 minutes): Folding Bike Re-Invented
• READ: Ideation Overview (don’t answer survey questions)
• WATCH (45 minutes): How to Run a User Interview - Emmett Shear (Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Twitch)
• READ: The Computer for the 21st Century (Mark Weiser) - Written in 1991!

Week 3: Designing for People

Tu. 1/29 | Human Abilities + Interface Design Lecture

• READ: A Theory of User Interfaces (Amy J. Ko)
• READ: Human Abilities (don’t answer the questions!)

OPTIONAL (Look through at least 1 of the following)

• READ (7 min): How to Make Your Not-So-Great Visual Design Better
• WATCH (22 minutes): Neuroscience, Technology, and Manipulative Environments
• READ (7 minutes): 3 ways to improve your visual design skills
• Google I/O 2013 - Cognitive Science and Design
• Read/Watch something else about visual design

Th. 1/31 | Heuristic Evaluation + Work Day

• Call in by Adam Marcus, Co-founder and CTO of B12
• Familiarize yourself with invision. See Slack for our free account code.
• WATCH (17 minutes): Scott Klemmer: Heuristic Evaluation - Why and How
• REFERENCE (short): How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation

Week 4: Designing for Data

Tu. 2/05 | Design for Others Demo Day + Reflection

• DUE by class: Design for Others Demo

Th. 2/07 | Data Vis Lecture

• DUE at 11:59pm: Design for Others Doc Due
• READ (long): Chapter 1 of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy
• WEBSITE: Five Design Sheet Methodology for Visualization
• LOOK THROUGH: Explorables

OPTIONAL (Look through at least 1)

• READ/WATCH: 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes | Accompanying Talk
• Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources
• WATCH (45 minutes): Thinking with Data Visualizations, Fast and Slow (Steve Franconeri)
• REFERENCE (for later): from Data to Viz

Week 5

Tu. 2/12 | Tableau Workshop

• Tableau Workshop with Ken Flerlage - Business Intelligence Architect at Bucknell
• BEFORE CLASS: Install Tableau Public on your personal laptop

Th. 2/14 | Hack Day + Interactive Vis

• OPTIONAL: Interactive Data Visualization Slides (BIG FILE!)

Week 6

Tu. 2/19 | More Vis Work

• Continue to work on visit

Th. 2/21 | Vis Demos

• DUE by class: Design for Understanding Demo Day

Week 7: Sampling the Future

Prof. Peck is gone at SIGCSE 2019

Week 8: Crowds and input

Tu 3/5 | From Person to People

• DUE by class: Design for Understanding Demo Day
• Lecture on Human Computation + Social Psychology

Th 3/7 | Input Bonanza

• Design for Expression Launch

WATCH at least 5 of the following:

• ACM UIST (User Interface Software and Technology Symposium): UIST 2016, UIST 2017, UIST 2018
• ACM CHI (Human Factors in Computing Systems - the premier international conference of HCI): CHI 2016, CHI 2017, CHI 2018
• VRST (Virtual Reality Software and Technology): VRST 2017
• ISS (Interactive Surfaces and Spaces): ISS 2018
• (scroll through) TEI (Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interactions): TEI 2019

Pick your 3 favorites. Google them and try to find a demo video (or at least a paper reference). Paste those into the #resources channel on Slack.

Week 9: Spring Break

• Sleep
• Eat
• Enjoy good company

Week 10: All kinds of Input

Tu 3/19 | Hands and Body

• READ 2 Chapters (both short): Hands and Bodies in Andrew J. Ko’s book on User Interface Software and Technology.
• WATCH (8 min): Bill Buxton on Natural User Interfaces
• READ (7 pages): Make Things Engaging
• READ (twitter thread): Criticism about in-air interfaces in AR/VR by Antti Oulasvirta. Make sure you click the links and see the research this criticism is based on.

Th 3/21 | Design for Expression Work Day

• Work on Design for Expression
• Additional Design Principle Resources (OPTIONAL):
  • Input Technologies and Techniques (Hinckley and Wigdor)
  • 3D User Interfaces by Doug Bowman (32.1-2, 32.4-5)

Week 11: Accessibility

Tu 3/26 | Design for Expression Demo Day

• DUE: Design for Expression Demo Day
• READ: Accessibility Overview (Do not do exercises)

Th 3/28 | Design for Expression Design Doc

• NOT due (moved to Sunday at 5pm): Design for Expression Design Doc
• 2 Questions for Chloe Fan - Product Designer at Uber
• Mini Assignment
  • Watch this video about a sidewalk accessibility project
  • For 24 hours, walk around town/campus only using handicap accessible pathways. No stairs inside (not even tiny steps). No hopping onto curves outside. Use only paved paths and sidewalks.
  • Annotate our crowdsourced map with the following:
    • At least 2-3 accessible ‘options’ that no other student has added. This can be an entrance to a build (see example), good crosswalk location, powered doors, etc.
    • At least 2-3 problematic areas that you found. For example, you can’t enter through the front of Dana because of steps.
    • For each problem, create a marker with an appropriate symbol
      • Include an image
      • Include a text description
    • After you added markers, tell me which ones you added on this form

Week 12: Virtual Reality

Tu. 4/02 | Virtual Reality (+ some Augmented Reality)

• READ (7 min): Applying human-centered design to emerging technologies (IDEO)
• READ (20 pages): Virtual Reality Introduction by Steven M. LaValle
• READ (7 minutes): Design Practices in Virtual Reality
• READ (short): AR Human Interface guidelines by Apple

SKIM OVER THE FOLLOWING FOR IDEAS!

• Opioids haven’t solved Chronic Pain. Maybe Virtual Reality Can (WIRED)
• ‘After I feel ecstatic and emotional’: Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy
• Can VR Really Make You More Empathetic? (WIRED)
• VRST 2017 Technical Papers Preview

Th. 4/04 | One day VR Hack

Designing for VR Intro

• WATCH: Can Virtual Reality Change Your Mind
• READ: Dystopian Virtual Reality is Finally Here (Ian Bogost)