HCC Calendar
| week 1 8/30 |
introduction |
| week 2 9/6 |
Topic: Humans and Technology Readings: Norman Ch 1-5 (lecture) Due: Response paper, including a brief discussion of an example of a human-centered and a non-human-centered interface |
| week 3 9/13 |
Topic: Processing information Readings: Carroll Ch 4,6 (lecture) Due: response paper |
| week 4 9/20 |
Topic: Finding information; visual perception and
interface design Readings: Carroll Ch 7, Mullet and Sano Ch 4 (handout) (lecture) Due: response paper, choose groups |
| week 5 9/27 |
Topic: Color, space perception, and locus of attention Readings: Carroll Ch 2; Ware Ch 4,5 (lecture) Due: One page statement of interest from groups |
| week 6 10/4 |
Topic: Motion, patterns, and structure; words and images Readings: Ware Ch 6,7 (lecture) Due: response paper |
| week 7 10/11 |
Topic: No class. Please attend Sean Carton's lecture at 7 pm on Thursday, 10/12 (Student Center multi-purpose room). |
| week 8 10/18 |
Topic: Motor functions; Distributed cognition Readings: Carroll Ch 3, (Fitt's law) (in-class exercise ); Carroll Ch 8,9; Norman Ch 6 (dist. cog.) Due: response paper |
| week 9 10/25 |
Topic: Activity theory; interactive learning Readings: Carroll Ch 11; Mayer online reading (lecture)(contextual) Due: response paper |
| week 10 11/1 |
Topic: Pleasure and cognition (lecture) Readings: Norman Emotion & Design Ch 1-3 Due: response paper |
| week 11 11/8 |
Topic: Special populations Readings: none (lecture) Due: Research paper |
| week 12 11/15 |
Topic: Work on group projects |
| week 13 11/22 |
no class |
| week 14 11/29 |
Topic: Work on group projects |
| week 15 12/6 |
Topic: Guest lecture on designing for users with impaired vision |
| final exam 12/13 |
Topic: Research Project Presentations |