Ron Danielson
EC 244
rdanielson@scuacc.scu.edu
554-6813
Office hours: M, W, F 9:00 - 10:15; R 3:30 - 4:45; by appointment
Baecker, Grudin, Buxton, and Greenberg, Readings in Human-Computer
Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 - Second Edition, San Francisco,
Morgan-Kaufman Publishers, 1995.
Students will gain an understanding of the issues related to the
design and analysis of human-computer interfaces, and become familiar
with four major paradigms that support that design and analysis.
They will also conduct both design and analysis activities, to
put their understanding into practice.
Homeworks 5%
Analyses 30%
Design 15%
Midterm 20%
Final 30%
| January 9 | Introduction; fundamental concepts | Introduction, p. 1; Norman, p. 5; A historical and intellectual perspective, p. 35; Designing to fit human capabilities, p. 667; Norman, p. 681; Lazzaro, p. 724 |
| January 16 | Experimental design and analysis | Design and evaluation, p. 73; Gould, p. 93; McGrath, p. 152; Mack and Nielsen, p. 170; Holtzblatt and Jones, p. 241 |
| January 23 | Human cognition and perception | Human information processing, p. 573; Barnard, p. 640 |
| January 30 | Cognition and perception in design and analysis | Bannon, p. 205; Landauer, p. 659; Carroll and Mack, p. 698 |
| February 6 | Interactivity on the WWW: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Java | Hypertext and multimedia, p. 833; Berners-Lee, et. al., p. 907 |
| February 13 | Midterm; Graphical User Interface design issues | The emergence of GUI, p. 49; Johnson, et. al. p. 53; Marcus, p. 425 |
| February 20 | Human-like interfaces: anthropomorphic design and analysis | Fisher and Reeves, p. 822; Handouts: Nass, Steuer and Tauber; Don, et. al. |
| February 27 | Predictive models in design and analysis | Card and Moran, p. 587; Gray, et. al., p. 634 |
| March 6 | Multimedia, multimodal interfaces | Davis, p. 854; Levine and Erlich, p. 871 |
| March 13 | Research directions | Cyberspace, p. 897; Ellis, p. 913; Weiser, p. 933 |
| March 20 | Final exam |