cs3724:  Introduction to HCI

Spring 2002, Dr. North

Professor:

Dr. Chris North
619 McBryde Hall
Office Hours:  Tues Thurs 3:30-5pm, or by appointment.

Teaching Assistant:

Purvi Saraiya
Office Hours:  Mon Wed 12-2pm, McBryde 133, or by appointment.

Course Links:

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes and code examples
• Grades
• Listserv: CS3724_11379@listserv.vt.edu

External Links:

• Nielsen's 10 heuristics
• MSDN Visual Basic documentation
• UI Hall of Fame/Shame
• Information Visualization demos
• Borland JBuilder6 download
• Java2 SDK
• Java documentation
  • Java API reference
  • Swing tutorial
  • Nathan Conklin's JDBC page
• Ultimate Arnold, Hall-of-Fame by James
• MSDN ASP documentation
• MSDN Visual InterDev documentation
• Tons o' ASP stuff and Tons o' quick lessons
• Project3 DB sample

Assignments and Exams:

• Reading:  DTUI ch 1,2,3, 6,7,8, 15
• Jan 17:  Homework #0, UI measurement
• Jan 24:  Homework #1, UI critique
• Feb 7:  Project #1, VB
• Feb 14:  Project #2, phase 0, teams organized
• Feb 19,21:  Homework #2, Visualization tools
• Feb 26:  Midterm
• Feb 28:  Project #2, phase 1, UI design
• Mar 21:  Project #2, phase 2, initial java implementation
• Apr 4:  Project #2, phase 3, final java implementation
• Apr 25:  Project #3, ASP
• May 3:  Final Exam, 7:45am (ug!)