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Dec 05 The handout for Project Part 3 is available in section Homework below. Deadline for deliverables is Saturday December 15 at 5:00 pm. Demos will take place December 13 and 14.
Dec 05 The handout for the course paper (CS 620 only) is available in section Homework below. Deadline is Tuesday December 18 at 5:00 pm.

Textbook

[Schneiderman et al 2009] Ben Schneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen, and Steven Jacobs, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2009. ISBN 978-0-321-53735-5.

Teaching team

Instructor: Dr. Sergiu Dascalu
Teaching Assistant: TBA

Lectures

Lecture 01 (Aug 28): Course syllabus [ppt] and [pdf].
Lecture 02 (Aug 30): Students' introduction
Lecture 03 (Sep 04): Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 04 (Sep 06): Chapter 1: Introduction (continued)
Lecture 05 (Sep 11): Chapter 2: Guidelines, Principles, Theories
Lecture 06 (Sep 13): Chapter 2 (continued) and Draw for presentation order
Lecture 07 (Sep 18): Chapter 3: Managing Design Processes
Lecture 08 (Sep 20): Chapter 4 - presentation by students (round 1): Parth, Jeff, Tanjim, Alex J.
Lecture 09 (Sep 25): Chapter 5 - presentation by students (round 1): Andrew, Antonio, Dylan, John
Lecture 10 (Sep 27): Chapter 8 - presentation by students (round 1): Steven, Rakib, Ethan, Chris
Lecture 11 (Oct 02): Project preparation: teams set-up
Lecture 12 (Oct 04): Chapter 9 - presentation by students (round 1): Daniel, Kevin, Vlad, Tony
Lecture 13 (Oct 09): Chapter 11 - presentation by students (round 1): Halim, Bob, Vamsi
Lecture 14 (Oct 11): Chapter 12 - presentation by students (round 1): Tom, Nate, Alex R.
Lecture 15 (Oct 16): Project preparation and videos from CHI-2005
Lecture 16 (Oct 18): Midterm exam 1
Lecture 17 (Oct 23): Presentation preparation and videos from CHI-2007 and CHI-2011
Lecture 18 (Oct 25): Videos from CHI-2011
Lecture 19 (Oct 30): Project preparation [slides1] and [slides2].
Lecture 20 (Nov 01): Presentations round 2 (HCI nuggets): 1. Rakib 2. Tanjim 3. Daniel 4. Steven 5. Ethan 6. Antonio
Lecture 21 (Nov 06): Individual project preparation
Lecture 22 (Nov 08): Presentations round 2 (HCI nuggets): 7. Tony 8. Dylan 9. Kevin 10. Andrew 11. Chris
Lecture 23 (Nov 13): Presentations round 2 (HCI nuggets): 12. Parth 13. Jeff 14. Alex J. 15. Vlad 16. John
Lecture 24 (Nov 15): Chapter 14: Information visualization
Lecture 25 (Nov 20): Research project at UNR: Nevada Climate Change Portal [NCCP].
Lecture 26 (Nov 27): Midterm 2
Lecture 27 (Nov 29): Book presentations by students: 1. Nate 2. Alex R.
Lecture 28 (Dec 04): Class canceled due to power outage - replaced by group project preparation
Lecture 29 (Dec 06): Book presentations by students: 3. Vamsi 4. Bob
Lecture 30 (Dec 11): Book presentations by students: 5. Tom 6. Halim

Project demos (all) on 12/13 and 12/14, Papers (CS 620 only) due on 12/17

THU Dec 13:
  • 1:30 pm Team 7
  • 2:30 pm Team 3

    FRI Dec 14:
  • 11:00 am Team 4
  • 03:00 pm Team 6
  • 04:00 pm Team 1
  • 05:00 pm Team 2
  • 06:00 pm Team 5

    Homework

    Paper: [pdf]. Due Tuesday December 18 at 5:00 pm (CS 620 only).
    Project 3: [pdf]. Due: demos on December 13 and 14, deliverables on Saturday December 15 at 5:00 pm.
    Project 2: [pdf]. Due (extended deadline): Tuesday November 20 at 8:00 pm.
    Project 1: [pdf]. Due (extended deadline): Tuesday October 30 at 8:00 pm.
    Assignment 3: [pdf] Due (extended deadline): Saturday November 10 at 5:00 pm.
    Assignment 2: [doc] Due Friday October 5 at 8:00 pm.
    Assignment 1: [pdf] Due Thursday September 13 at 8:00 pm.

    Tests

    Midterm exam 1: Thursday October 18. Study required is available [here].

    Midterm exam 2: Tuesday November 20. Study required is available [here].

    Project Teams

    Team 1:
  • Students: Vamsi, Alex R, Bob
  • Project: Multi-layered eBooks

    Team 2:
  • Students: Halim, Nate, Tom
  • Project: Paint Mobile 3D

    Team 3:
  • Students: Rakib, Parth, Tanjim
  • Project: uSeek - An Online Music Search Engine

    Team 4:
  • Students: Daniel, Tony, Ethan
  • Project: Augmented Visual Programming

    Team 5:
  • Students: Jeff, Chris, Antonio
  • Project: Event Allocator

    Team 6:
  • Students: Alex J, Steven, Dylan
  • Project: Kinect Input Mapper (KIM)

    Team 7:
  • Students: Kevin, Andrew, Vlad, John
  • Project: LearnIt (Personalized Web-based Tutorials)

    Additional readings (CS 620)

    Opportunities

  • UNR Undergraduate Research Awards
  • COE Career Fair, September 25, 2012, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm