| This course introduces students to
concepts, theories, and methods that support the study of human-computer
interaction and user-centered system design. Major approaches to machine-mediated
learning and understanding are surveyed, with an emphasis on problem solving,
knowledge representation, structure of knowledge systems, and problems
of interface design. This course prepares students to understand and analyze
research based on empirical study of human behavior and on models of learning
and understanding.
Required Texts:
The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
Information Visualization: Perceptions for Design,
Colin Ware
The Design of Children’s Technology,
Alison Druin, ed.
Research Design: Qualitative and Quantitative
Approaches, John Creswell
Articles and selected chapters:
“Cooperative Inquiry: Developing New Technologies For Children With
Children” Alison Druin, et al.
The Humane Interface, Jeff Raskin
Things That Make Us Smart, Donald Norman
Contextual Design, Beyer and Holtzblatt
Designing the Visual Interface, Mullet
and Sano
Visual Language, Richard Horn
Metaphors We Live By, Richard Lanham
Information Anxiety, Richard Saul Wurman
Assignments:
Class research presentation on
selected readings topic 25%
Research project design 40%
Class participation & reading responses
35%
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| 10/24
Class on Tuesday, 10/29, is cancelled. Please read Norman ch
3-7 and Ware ch 8-9 for Tuesday, 11/5.
P.S. Remember that your topic for your final research design project is due on Nov 5.
9/18
Look for possible research articles in the following online
indexes:
- PsychInfo
- SSI
- SS Abstracts
You can also do a CarlWeb search on human computer interaction.
9/17
Your topic for the research presentation will be due on Sep
24. Include a one-page, single-spaced description of what your topic
is, what resources you anticipate using, and how it relates to interface
or interaction design. |
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