Weekly Readings and Assignments

The precise dates and readings may be subject to change. Please check this site for updates.

date readings and assignments due
Jan 29 Introduction to Interaction and Interface Design
Feb 5 Raskin, intro, chapters 1 & 2; Chapter 6 from Druin, A. (Ed), The Design of Children's Technology (handout); form groups & choose project
Feb 12 Raskin, chapters 3 & 4; Baerentsen and Trettvik (ACM Readings); Chapter 3 from Druin, A. (Ed), The Design of Children's Technology (handout) Group Blog launched; group outlines posted to blog
Feb 19Raskin, chapters 5 & 6; some groups meet with kidsTeam
Feb 26 Shneiderman and Plaisant, Chapters 1-3; Antle (ACM Readings); Oosterholt et al. (ACM Readings); some groups meet with kidsTeam
Mar 5No Class, but read Shneiderman and Plaisant, Chapters 4-5; Group Project Blogs define research assignments
Mar 12Raskin, chapters 7 & 8; Holan et al. (ACM Readings); Arias et al. (ACM Readings)
Mar 19Shneiderman and Plaisant, Chapter 6; interface analysis paper due
Mar 26No class [Spring Break]
Apr 2Shneiderman and Plaisant, Chapters 7-8; ACM readings TBA
Apr 9Shneiderman and Plaisant, Chapters 9-10; ACM readings TBA
Apr 16ACM readings TBA; research paper due
Apr 23Shneiderman and Plaisant, Chapter 14; some groups meet with kidsTeam
Apr 30Shneiderman, Understanding (ACM DL); some groups meet with kidsTeam
May 7No Class
May 14 group presentations due

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