HCC Calendar

week 1
9/3

Topic: introduction, Humans and Technology
Readings:

week 2
9/10

CLASS IS CANCELED TONIGHT
Please send your responses through email.

Topic: Processing information
Readings: Norman Ch 1-5 (lecture)
Carroll Ch 4 (lecture) (Ch 4 is available at this link:
http://student-iat.ubalt.edu/students/byrnes/idia640/ch4-info-processing.pdf)
Due: response paper
week 3
9/17
 Guest Lecture: Jim Kucher, Successful Entrepreneurship
week 4
9/24
 Topic: Finding information; visual perception and interface design
Readings: Carroll Ch 7 PDF of Pages 157-173
PDF of Pages 174-191 (lecture)
Due: response paper, choose groups
week 5
10/1
 Topic: Color, space perception, and locus of attention
Readings: Ware Ch 1-4 (lecture)
Due: One page statement of interest from groups
week 6
10/8
 Topic: Motion, patterns, and structure; words and images
Readings: Ware Ch 5-9
Due: response paper
week 7
10/15
 catch-up day
week 8
10/22
 Topic: Activity theory; interactive learning
Readings: Carroll Ch 11; online reading TBD
(lecture)
Topic: Motor functions
Readings: Carroll Ch 3, (Fitt's law) (in-class exercise ); Due: response paper (late papers accepted next week)
week 9
10/29
 Topic: No class - work on group projects
week 10
11/5
 Carroll Ch 8,9; Norman Ch 6 (dist. cog.) (contextual)
Due: response paper
week 11
11/12
 Topic: Special populations
Readings: none (lecture and forms and PAP)
Due: Research paper
week 12
11/19
 Topic: National Federation of the Blind guest lecture, 6 pm, BC003
week 13
11/26
 no class - Thanksgiving
week 14
12/3
 Topic: Pleasure and cognition (lecture); Memory & attention (lecture)
Readings: Norman Emotion & Design Ch 1-3
week 15
12/10
 Topic: Work on group projects
final exam
12/17
 Topic: Research Project Presentations