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The syllabus includes the grading scheme, required text, expectations, and major course activities. |
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Below is the tentative schedule for the class. Please complete the readings in the righthand column by the start of the week in which it is listed. My office hours are Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-12:00. You can always email me for an appointment. |
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| Final Project | This is a sample project from a previous offering of a senior capstone course. I also have a notebook full of examples in my office. You are welcome to review it anytime you wish. |
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All of the templates you need for your final project documents are here. There are some other files intended to help you with creating these files. |
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| Week One: 8/24-8/26 | Brief article to start a discussion on accessibility. |
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| Week Two: 8/31-9/4 | ||
Slides covering Chapter One from The Design of Everyday Things. |
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| Week Three: 9/5-9/9 | Slides regarding guidelines and principles of HCI. |
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This video is the recording of the user observation slides. |
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Slides from the lecture regarding how to conduct user observations |
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You will be conducting your own user observation to incorporate in your interface analysis paper. This link will take you to the assignment. |
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| Week Four: 9/12-9/16 | ||
| Week Five: 9/19-9/23 | The following videos may relate directly to interaction as we have been discussing, and others are more general HCI-oriented videos. I think you will find some of these to be based on incredibly creative ideas. Please consider watching the first two. The last two are just for fun. They are from the video showcase for the annual ACM Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) conference. |
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Finishing up from last week. |
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Please read before class on Monday. I'll post a reading quiz as well. |
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Interesting simulator |
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Please read before doing reflection. |
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| Week Six: 9/27-10/3 | Lecture on the most common software development lifecycle models |
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All about Agile...for your reading pleasure! =) |
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Paper for quiz |
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| Week Seven: 10/3-10/7 | Please review the checklists posted here regarding items to consider for Architecture and Construction. Not all topics will always be applicable. |
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This is a classic software engineering paper. Please read. |
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| Week Eight: 10/10-10/14 | We will break into three groups. At the end of the class, each group will share what they have designed. |
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| Week Nine: 10/17-10/21 | ||
Actual UML website. There is a plethora of information here. |
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Tutorial on UML. |
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This video does not cover the entire lecture slides, but it's what I want you to focus on for now. |
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| Week Ten: 10/24-10/28 | ||
Please take a look. This is a more detailed explanation of Single Responsibility Principle |
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A very detailed look at open-closed principle. It's where I got my lecture notes from. |
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