CMPT 363 
99-2 Course Schedule

May 5th 
Course Overview / HCI Overview
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May 12th 
HCI Overview
Readings: 
  • Article 2: The Xerox Star: A retrospective by J. Johnson, et. al.
  • Article 3: A Case Study in Interface Design: The CHI ‘89 Information Kiosk by Gitta Salomon
  • Getting to know users and their tasks (chapter 2), Lewis and Rieman
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May 19th 
Understanding Users and Their Tasks and User Centered Design
Readings: 
  • Article 4: How to Design Usable Systems (Excerpt) by John D. Gould
  • Article 5: Learning from Notes: Organizational Issues in Groupware Implementation by Wanda J. Orlikowski
  • Article 6: Scandinavian Design: Users in Product Development by Morten Kyng
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May 26th 
User Centered Design and Prototyping
Readings: 
  • Article 7: Making Customer-Centered Design Work for Teams by K. Holtzblatt and H. Beyer
  • Article 8: Interdisciplinary Cooperation by Scott Kim
  • The usability methods toolbox (prototyping section), James Hom
  • Article 9: Using Video to Prototype User Interfaces by Laurie Vertelney
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June 2nd 
Principles for Design
Readings: 
  • The Non-Designers Design Book, Robin Williams (Chapters 1-6, on reserve in the library)
  • Article 10: Principles of Effective Visual Communication for Graphical User Interface Design by Aaron Marcus 
  • Article 11: Color Graphics: Blessing or Ballyhoo? (Excerpt) by Gerald M. Murch
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June 9th 
Usability Inspection
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June 16th 
Usability Inspection
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  • Article 12: A GOMS Analysis of a Graphic, Machine-Paced, Highly Interactive Task by Bonnie E. John and Alonso H. Vera
  • Article 13: Usability Heuristics by Jakob Nielsen
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June 23rd 
Designing to Fit Human Capabilities
Readings: 
  • CZ-Web Guest Lecture by John Dill
  • Review of Midterm
  • Article 14: Designing for Error by Clayton Lewis and Donald A. Norman
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June 30th 
Usability Evaluation
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July 7th 
Input, Output, and Interaction Technologies
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July 14th 
Input, Output, and Interaction Technologies
Readings: 
  • Article 17: Interaction Devices by Ben Shneiderman
  • Article 18: Movement Time Prediction in Human-Computer Interfaces by I. Scott MacKenzie
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July 21st 
Readings: 
  • Article 19: Tivoli: An Electronic Whiteboard for Informal Workgroup Meetings by Elin Ronby Pedersen, Kim McCall, Thomas P. Moran and Frank G. Halasz
  • Article 20: Text to Speech Conversion Technology by M. H. O’Malley
  • Article 21: GROUPKIT: A Groupware Toolkit for Building Real-Time Conferencing Applications by Mark Roseman and Saul Greenberg
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July 28th 
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