Apr 24 The handout for Project/Essay Part 3 is available in section Homework below.
Apr 10 Please note that the test will take place in SEM-257 (April 17, from 9:30 am). AGN is not available that day.
Apr 02 The study required for the midterm test is available in section Midterm below. The test will take place on Thursday April 17.
Mar 31 The handout for Project/Essay Part 2 is available in section Homework below. Due date is Monday April 14 at 5:00 pm.
[Benyon et al 2005] Benyon, D., Turner P., and Turner S., Designing Interactive Systems, Addison-Wesley, 2005; ISBN 0-321-11629-1
Instructor: Dr. Sergiu Dascalu.
Teaching Assistant: Mr. Anil Shankar, PhD candidate.
Lecture 01 (Jan 22): Course syllabus [pdf] and [PPT]
Lecture 02 (Jan 24): Students' introduction (2 to 4 minutes each) and video clips from CHI-2005 and CHI-2007
Lecture 03 (Jan 29): Individual study (no class, instructor sick)
Lecture 04 (Jan 31): Selection of video clips from CHI-2005
Lecture 05 (Feb 05): Chapter 01: Designing interactive systems: a fusion of skills
Lecture 06 (Feb 07): Chapter 02: The PACT framework
Lecture 07 (Feb 12): Chapter 03: Principles and practice of interactive systems design [Kai, Mike S.]
Lecture 08 (Feb 14): Chapter 05: An introduction to cognitive psychology [Michael L., Robert]
Lecture 09 (Feb 19): Chapter 06: Supporting single user interaction [Jeff] and Chapter 08: Scenarios [Sravanthi]
Lecture 10 (Feb 21): Chapter 09: Requirements [Austin] and Chapter 10: Envisionment [Gino]
Lecture 11 (Feb 26): Chapter 11: Prototyping [Brad] and Chapter 12: Evaluation [Chang]
Lecture 12 (Feb 28): Chapter 13: Conceptual and physical design [Amol] and Chapter 16: Hearing and haptics [David]
Lecture 13 (Mar 04): A look at HCI topics as shown at YouTube (S. Dascalu's invited talk at ACHI-2008)
Lecture 14 (Mar 06): Continuation of Lecture 13 and Project preparation
Lecture 15 (Mar 11): Presentations round II (software tools): 1. Michael L. 2. Robert 3. Chang
Lecture 16 (Mar 13): Presentations round II (software tools): 4. Austin 5. Gino 6. Amol
Lecture 17 (Mar 18): Presentations round II (software tools): 7. Brad 8. Jeff 9. Kai
Lecture 18 (Mar 20): Presentations round II (software tools): 10. David 11. Mike S. 12. Sravanthi
Lecture 19 (Apr 01): Presentations round II (continued): Robert Sandstrom and Jeff Wallace
Lecture 20 (Apr 03): Project and test preparation; A look at recent Apple products
Lecture 21 (Apr 08): Chapter 24: Information design (presented by Sohei Okamoto)
Lecture 22 (Apr 10): Michael Leverington on SIGCSE-2008; Excerpts from WWDC-2007 keynote speech
Lecture 23 (Apr 15): HCI-related presentations from ted.com: John Maeda; David Kelley
Lecture 24 (Apr 17): Midterm exam (in SEM-257!)
Lecture 25 (Apr 22): Presentations round III (project/essay): 1. Chang 2. David 3. Brad
Lecture 26 (Apr 24): Presentations round III (project/essay): 4. Sravanthi 5. Austin 6. Kai
Lecture 27 (Apr 29): Presentations round III (project/essay): 7. Amol 8. Robert 9. Michael S.
Lecture 28 (May 01): Presentations round III (project/essay): 10. Jeff 11. Gino 12. Michael L.
Lecture 29 (May 06 and May 07): Project DEMOS:
__Tue May 6 at 09:00 am: Dave
__Tue May 6 at 09:30 am: Mike S.
__Tue May 6 at 10:00 am: Sravanthi
__Tue May 6 at 10:30 am: Amol
__Wed May 7 at 10:00 am: Jeff and Gino
__Wed May 7 at 02:30 pm: Austin
Project/Essay #3: due Monday May 12 at 5:00 pm [project track] and, respectively, Saturday May 10 at 11:59 pm [essay track]
Project/Essay #2: due Monday Apr 14 at 5:00 pm [project track] and [essay track]
Project/Essay #1: due Wednesday Mar 19 at 5:00 pm [project track] and [essay track]
Assignment #3 : due Monday Mar 03 at 5:00 pm [pdf] [doc]
Assignment #2 : due Wednesday Feb 20 at 5:00 pm [pdf] [doc]
Assignment #1 : due Friday Feb 08 at 5:00 pm [pdf] [doc]
Midterm: The test will take place on Thursday April 17 in SEM-257! Study required is available here.
Amol [Ambardekar]
Software tool: Microsoft C# Express Edition
Project topic: Ground truth verification tool (GTVT) for video surveillance systems
David [Carr]
Software tool: Tools and procedure to create a YouTube video clip
Project topic: Second Life accessibility part 2: blind interface
Gino [Essa]
Software tool: NetBeans
Project topic: BLASToogle: A visual search tool for biometric data [with Jeff Wallace]
Kai [Huang]
Software tool: Macromedia Dreamweaver
Project topic:
Chang [Jia]
Software tool: Game Maker
Project topic:
Michael [Leverington]
Software tool: Borland GUI Builder
Project topic:
Robert [Sandstrom]
Software tool: Camtasia Studio
Project topic:
Michael [Smith]
Software tool: VRUI
Project topic:
Austin [Stanhope]
Software tool: Microsoft Moviemaker
Project topic:
Brad [Towle]
Software tool: wxGlade
Project topic:
Jeff [Wallace]
Software tool: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Project topic: BLASToogle: A visual search tool for biometric data [with Gino Essa]
Sravanthi [Yendluri]
Software tool: Microsoft Expression Web
Project topic:
Nevada Student Entrepreneurship Competition (CIP). Deadline is February 15.
Nevada Governor's Cup 2008. Letters of intent due February 15, business plans due March 17.
Hans Rosling on Debunking Third-World Myths ...
AIBO playing with a cat
Video 01 [Amol]
Video 02 [Amol]
Video 03 [David]
Video 04 [David]
Video 05 [Gino]
Video 06 [Gino]
Video 07 [Kai]
Video 08 [Kai]
Video 09 [Chang]
Video 10 [Chang]
Video 11 [Michael L]
Video 12 [Michael L]
Video 13 [Robert]
Video 14 [Robert]
Video 15 [Mike S]
Video 16 [Mike S]
Video 17 [Austin]
Video 18 [Austin]
Video 19 [Brad]
Video 20 [Brad]
Video 21 [Jeff]
Video 22 [Jeff]
Video 23 [Sravanthi]
Video 24 [Sravanthi]