cs3724:  Introduction to HCI

Professor:

Dr. Chris North
619 McBryde Hall
Office Hours:  MW 1:15-3pm

Beth Yost
beyost@vt.edu
Office Hours:  Tues 10-11am &12:30-1:30pm, Thurs 10am-noon, McBryde 133A, or by appointment.

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes and code examples
• Presentation schedule
• Grades
• Listserv: CS3724_91395@listserv.vt.edu  (must use your @vt.edu PID to send)
• Final project screen-shots

• Usability Engineering book case studies
• Nielsen's 10 heuristics
• Borland JBuilder download
• Java2 SDK
• Java documentation
• Java API reference
• Swing tutorial
• Information Visualization demos
• Snap-Together Visualization page
• Snap component development materials

(tentative schedule)

• Readings:  Usability Engineering chapters announced in class
• Presentation
• Homework #0 (due Aug 28)
• Homework #1 (due Sept 6)
• Homework #2 (due Sept 13)
• Homework #3 (due Sept 20)
• Homework #4 (due Sept 27)
• Homework #5 (tentative)
• Project:
  • teams and topics (due Oct 2), project topics, teams
  • design (due Oct 14)
  • initial implementation (due Nov 4)
  • usability evaluation (due Nov 15)
  • final implementation (due Dec 6), screen-shots
• Midterm Exam (Oct 4)
• Final Exam (Dec 13, 7:45am)