HCC Calendar
| week
1 9/1 |
No class - Labor Day Weekend (but do the readings for next week)
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| week
2 9/8 |
Topic: introduction,
Humans and Technology |
| week 3 9/15 |
Topic: Processing information Readings: Carroll Ch 4,6 (lecture) Due: response paper |
| week 4 9/22 |
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 9/29 |
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 10/6 |
Topic: Motion, patterns, and structure; words and
images Readings: Ware Ch 6,7 (lecture) Due: response paper |
| week 7 10/13 |
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 8 10/20 |
Topic: Activity theory; interactive learning (CLASS HELD REMOTELY) Readings: Carroll Ch 11; Mayer online reading (lecture)(contextual) Due: response paper |
| week 9 10/27 |
Topic: No class - work on group projects |
| week 10 11/3 |
Topic: Pleasure and cognition (lecture) Readings: Norman Emotion & Design Ch 1-3 Due: response paper |
| week 11 11/10 |
Topic: Special populations Readings: none (lecture and forms) Due: Research paper |
| week 12 11/17 |
Topic: Memory, attention |
| week 13 11/24 |
no class - Thanksgiving |
| week 14 12/1 |
Topic: Guest lecture on designing for users with impaired vision |
| week 15 12/8 |
Topic: Work on group projects |
| final exam 12/15 |
Topic: Research Project Presentations |