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4th May:
Dr. Hix's teams have now all turned in a team member evaluation form for
each person on the team. Thanks!
30 April:
Dr. Hartson's section's grades are now available!
30 April:
GTA Rajat Gupta will be holding extra office hours tomorrow (Ist May) from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. This is in addition to those today. Please try and look up your grades on the web so that you can see him tomorrow with any problems if at all.
You can also email him if you need to see him outside of these timings. He will try his best to accomodate your needs.
30 April:
UPDATED GRADES FOR DR. HIX'S SECTION ARE NOW UP!
DR. HARTSON'S SECTION'S GRADES WILL BE UP BY 8:00 PM today.
30 April:
FOR DR. HIX'S CLASS:
There are two teams who do not have a project team member evaluation form
from every member of the team:
If you are on one of these teams, please make sure that ALL of your team
members turn in the form to Dr. Hix immediately. Project grades cannot be
assigned for any member of a team until all team members have turned in a
completed form.
26 April:
IMPORTANT REMINDER!!!
EACH MEMBER of EACH PROJECT TEAM must hand a completed evaluation form
at the beginning of class on Thursday, 29 April 1999. Until every team
member hands in this evaluation form, no team member will receive a grade
for any part of the project.
20 April:
CLARIFICATION FOR HOMEWORK 3:
The url of the web site for the usability inspection is:
www.cs.vt.edu
(NOT our CS3724 class site!)
10 April:
NEW MATERIAL POSTED
1. An evaluation form for team members. It is required that each member
of every team complete one of these and hand in to your professor on
Thursday, 29 April 1999. Individual grades for the team project cannot be
computed until these are all handed in.
2. A form showing criteria for grading your team presentation. Your
professor will be using this while your team is presenting, to assign a
grade for Project 5.
3. Homework 3
7 April:
CLASS ON TUESDAY, 13 APRIL
Lecture on this day will be a joint lecture of Hartson's and Hix's
section, in Hartson's classroom (216 Randolph). The lecture will be given
by Dr. Hix, on Virtual Environments. Overheads can be printed from
the Web site, Week 12. You should bring a copy to the lecture.
7 April:
Project 5 has been posted on the Web
VE lecture notes have been posted on the Web
If you are looking for sample forms, please look under "Course notes" - they are under LUCID stage 4, the materials are in MS Word format (as opposed to .PDF) for your editing convenience.
31 March:
Homework 2 has been posted on the Web
25 March:
Project 4 has been posted on the Web
23 March
OFFICE HOURS CHANGE FOR DR. HIX
Please note that Dr. Hix's Thursday office hours have changed. They are
now 3:15 - 3:50. Her Tuesday office hours remain the same.
15 March
CLASS CANCELLED ON TUESDAY, 16 MARCH
Both sections (Dr. Hartson's AND Dr. Hix's) of our class are cancelled
on Tuesday, 16 March. Class will be held as usual on Thursday, 18 March.
15 March
HCI speaker
Wayne Gray is an active researcher in human factors and applied cognition
at George Mason University. He will be visiting Tech on March 18th and
giving a talk called "Cognitive Reverse-Engineering of a simple rule-based
task: Performance and Errors".
The talk will be at 4 PM in McBryde 655, but I was wondering if you would
be interested in speaking with him more personally during his visit. We
could set up an individual meeting time or another idea is to arrange a
group meeting with a collection of faculty.
He will be on campus all of Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.
Also, he will be availiable for lunch either day and dinner after his talk
on Thursday.
MIDTERM
Reminder: MIDTERM
This in-class, closed-book, closed-notes exam will be given on Tuesday, 2
March, during our regular class period. We will (probably) review for the
exam on Tuesday, 23 February.
26 February:
Project 3 have been posted on the Web
21 February:
In-class exercises have been put on the Web. Please print these out and bring have bring them with you to class on week 7 (see calendar).
21 February:
CLASS ON THURSDAY, 25 FEBRUARY
We will have a special guest speaker, Dr. Lucy Nowell, a PhD graduate of
our CS Department and an employee at Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs in
Richland, Washington. She will talk about her user interface research and
development at PNL, and will show some videos of novel user interfaces.
We will have a combined class, with everyone going to Dr. Hartson's
classroom, 216 RANDOLPH.
11 February:
CLARIFICATION OF HOMEWORK 1:
In part 1 of the homework, you should explain the situation to
your boss and assess the validity of the design premise.
In part 2, you propose a ***plan of action*** to address the two
questions at the end of the paragraph.
There is, of course, no single "correct" answer to this problem,
but there will be some answers that are better than others, and
probably some that will miss the mark.
11 February:
The following materials have been posted on the class Web site:
'Easy Print' your projects
Per your requests, an 'Easy Print' feature has been added to the projects page. It exists as a hyperlink, and all it does is opens the desired project description on its own separate page so that you can easily print it out.
9 February:
Project 2 have been posted on the Web
6 February:
Lecture notes for Week 5 (User Interaction Design Guidelines) have been posted as in .PDF format.
6 February:
Homework 1:
The due date for Homework 1 is changed to Tuesday, 16 February. Apologies
for accidentally scheduling it to be due the same day as Project 1!
4 February:
Homework 1 has been posted on the Web.
4 February:
Summer Usability Internships at Microsoft
The Microsoft Usability Group, in Redmond, WA, have several internship
positions starting in late May or June for graduate students in
human-computer interaction. The internship program term is about 12 weeks
and offers competitive salary, benefits, and travel expense reimbursement.
For more information about Microsoft's general internship program or
internships in other areas of Microsoft, visit
http://www.microsoft.com/college/
Other intern positions will be available in September and January.
Usability interns will work with our usability engineers on product design
issues and usability evaluation. We apply user-centered design and usability
engineering methods on a range of software solutions for the home and
office, ranging from operating systems, programming tools and client/server
systems to game, multimedia, and Internet content products. You will assist
product teams in defining customer needs, conducting usability studies, and
researching interface issues. While we attempt to match your assignments
with your interests, our goal is to provide you with the experience of
working in a fast-paced, applied research and design setting.
REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited Masters or Ph.D.
degree program in Psychology, Human Factors, Industrial Engineering,
Computer Science or related discipline, with a PRIMARY focus on
human-computer interaction. Applicants must have knowledge of HCI research
and design guidelines as well as strong skills in research design and
qualitative and quantitative data analysis. Creative energy, initiative,
teamwork skills, and excellent written and oral communication skills are
essential. U.S. citizenship or visa status that permits work in the U.S. is
required.
TO APPLY: Send your resume, a brief statement of your objectives in
applying a Microsoft internship to your educational goals, and a letter of
recommendation from your graduate advisor. Apply by March 12th for a late
May start date (Since many universities have variable vacation schedules,
specific start dates are negotiable.) Send your application to:
Marshall McClintock
Microsoft Corporation, 21/1
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
Email: Marshalm@Microsoft.com
Fax: 206.936.7329
No telephone calls, please
28 January:
Project 1 has been posted on the Web.
26 January:
When you miss class, for whatever reason, it is not necessary to inform your professor that
you will be (or were) absent. Also, please do not ask your professor to tell you what you
missed. With a class this size, the professors simply cannot reply individually to such
requests. Check with your project team-mates to get filled in on what happened in class.
26 January:
Project Team Rosters for both Dr. Hartson's as well as Dr. Hix's section have been put up as
HTML files. Links to the pages can be found under Projects.
24 January:
A number of you indicated that in the very first set of slides in .PDF ("intro.pdf"), a grafic on
page 8 gave an out-of-memory error. An updated .PDF has been posted on the web; all the
hyperlinks have been updated accordingly. (NOTE: the document contents stayed the same.)
21 January:
Project 0 has been posted on the Web (now in HTML).
Browse smart
If you believe that one of the pages comprising the class Web site should have new material,
links, etc. - please go to that page and hit "Reload" ("Refresh") button. If you want to be more
efficient (recommended), please go to Edit -> Preferences on your Netscape Navigator 4.x
(class official browser); then in the left frame, click on "Advanced", and then "Cache". At the
botton of the page, click on the "Once per session" radio button if you dont' keep your browser
window open day and night. Otherwise, you might want to select "Every time" (see picture
below).
20 January:
COREQUISITE POLICY
For those Computer Science students taking CS2604 or 2704 this semester, it can count as a co-requisite for thisclass. You may remain in the class. If you are not a CS major and still have questions about whether you have the appropriate pre-reqs for this class, please contact your professor. The main requirements for enrollment remain as
stated on the syllabus and in the catalog: junior level standing and at least one CS class completed.
INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY
The following paragraph has been added to the "Homeworks" section of the syllabus:
NOTE: If Virginia Tech is closed for inclement weather on a day when any assignment is due, that assignment then becomes due NO LATER THAN 2 PM of the first day the University is again open. A box will be outside your professor's door for you to leave the assignment.
18 January:
- "Project 0: Getting started" moved from 26 January to 2 February
- LUCID materials have been put up on the class Web site (under "Readings")
- Hyperlinks to class notes can be found from the class calendar.
- In order for you to view class materials (which are in .PDF format), you will have to download Acrobat Reader
(freebie) from Adobe Web site.
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