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Course Overview
- Instructor
- Nancy Kaplan, Professor
- School of Information Arts and Technologies
- 102 Charles Royal, 410.837.5319
- nkaplan@ubalt.edu
- iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan
- Office hours: Wednesdays 3:00 Ð 5:00 and by appointment
- Description and Objectives
- This course acquaints students with professional methods for creating and evaluating useful, usable, and effective user interfaces and with strategies for designing more complex interactions and user experiences with online resources.
- By the end of this course, students will have a broad understanding of interfaces and interactivity. They will have analyzed and measured the efficiency of existing interfaces, developed ideas for and prototyped alternative interfaces, researched one or more aspects of interaction for a group project, and built a prototype of that project.
- Required Texts
- Preece, Rogers, and Sharp.
Interaction Design. Wiley and Sons, 2002.
ISBN: 0471492787
(on amazon's site: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471492787/qid%3D1042834534/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-0057648-2844076)
- Raskin, J.
The Humane Interface. Addison Wesley, 2000.
ISBN: 0201379376
(on amazon's site: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201379376/qid=1042834686/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0057648-2844076?v=glance&s=books)
- Please also become a student member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) with the Student Portal package ($42) -- or you can choose the Student Portal and Print Package ($62) if you really love recycling chores and want to pay extra for the privilege. Joining the ACM will give you all access to the Association's extensive digital library (virtually all ACM publications for the past decade or so) and also bibliographies of other relevant research literature. I will be assigning some readings from this library. Visit the Web site to register: http://www.acm.org/membership/student/
- Plus handouts and on-line assignments listed on the syllabus
- Grading Scheme
| interface analysis | 30% |
| Group Outline of Work | 05% |
| research paper | 30% |
| group project and presentation | 35% |
- Additional Policies
- A statement of general academic policies appears on my Web site. That statement is an extension of this document. See
http://iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan/policies.htm.
Please also read the University's policies in the Student Handbook.
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