CS 3724: Course Calendar

Calendar is subject to change, click 'refresh'. The lectures and in-class activities are roughly based on the chapters in Usability Engineering, but often introduce other material that you will also be responsible for in exams. The UE chapters are required reading. Homework and Project assignments are due in class on Thursdays.
 

Week of

Tues
Lectures

Tues
Presentation

Thurs
Lectures

Thurs
Presentation

Readings

(Tues)

Project due (Thurs)

Homework due (Thurs)

1.
Aug24

Introduction

  

SBD overview

 

UE, Ch. 1

0 - Teams

 

2.
Aug31

Intell exercise
bring laptops to class

 

Requirements Analysis

Dumo, Allan

UE, Ch. 2

  

1 - UI comparison

3. *
Sept7

Requirements exercise

Hecker, Carl

Activity Design

Mark, Chester

UE, Ch. 3

  

2 - UCS task analysis

4.
Sept14

Information Design & Visualization

Mederos, Paul

Visual Design
Guest: Tom Krieger

Herr, Adam

UE, Ch. 4

1 - Requirements

  

5.
Sept21

Interaction Design

Fatico, Crystal

Design 

Peacock, John

UE, Ch. 5

  

3 - Visual Design

6.
Sept28

Formative Evaluation

Kessinger, Jereme

Midterm Exam

 

UE, Ch. 7.2

    

7.
Oct5

Development

Coons, Robert

Midterm Project
Presentations

 

UE, Ch. 6

2 - Design & Formative Evaluation
(and midterm presentations)

  

8. **
Oct12

Multi-Touch exercise
bring laptops to class

 

 class cancelled 

 

  

 

 

9.
Oct19

Development

Becker, Marc;
Reeves, Sarah

Analytics
Heuer, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Chapter 8.

Francois, Jennifer;
Slack, Dylan

UE, Ch. 8

  

4 - Critique

10.
Oct26

Evaluation

Codio, Sherley

 Evaluation

McEntee, Mark


UE, Ch. 7

    

11.*
Nov2

Experiments & Statistics

Richards, Eric

Project demos

 

 

3 - Implementation

  

12.
Nov9

special topics
Guest:  Alex Endert, Large Displays

Wolf, Russell

special topics
Website UE, and KJ exercise

Vantine, Jason

UE, Ch. 9

    

13.
Nov16

Project Contest:  6:30-9pm, VTKW2 room 1110 (2202 Kraft Dr);  take the CRC shuttle;
no meeting during regular class time

 

Future of HCI

Springer, Sean;
Savage, Shawn

UE, Ch. 10

4 - Evaluation

  

Nov23

Thanksgiving Break

14.*
Nov30

Project presentations
teams 5,4,3

  

class cancelled 

   

5 - Final Presentation & Paper
(Final paper due Tues Dec 8)

  

15.
Dec7

Project presentations
teams 2,1

  

no class

        

Final Exam:  Dec 14, 1:05 - 3:05pm (same room)