Christopher J. Kimmer, Ph.D.
IU Southeast Informatics
iSciCL
Informatics and Scientific Computing Laboratory
I300 Tentative Class Schedule
Fall 2013
"Tentative" means that this schedule may change due to weather, classroom pace, etc.
| Date | Class Topic, Reading, Assignments, etc. |
| M 8/26 | Syllabus, The big acronyms: HCI, ID, UCD, Interaction Types
Read Section 2.3 of http://www.wiley.com/college/preece/0471492787/sample_chapters/ch02.pdf |
| W 8/28 |
Affordances, Visibility, Mappings, and Feedback (see also http://www.jmcsweeney.co.uk/computing/m206/hci1.php and http://ifi7159.wordpress.com/module-1/)
Requirements and features
Quiz 1 on DOET Chap. 1 |
| M 9/2 | NO CLASS - LABOR DAY HOLIDAY |
| W 9/4 | 7 Stages of Action & The Two Gulfs (http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/rng/teaching/notes/NormanGulfs.html)
Quiz 2 on DOET Chap. 2 Lab 1 - Mental Models |
| M 9/9 | Event-driven programming, Intro. to Visual Basic & Prototypes
HW 1 (Affordances and Mappings) due |
| W 9/11 | More Visual Basic, GUI Widgets
HW 2 (VB1) Assigned Lab 2 - VB in class |
| M 9/16 | History, Sketches, Styles and Patterns |
| W 9/18 | VB Structural Elements: Toolbars, Tabs, Ribbons
Lab 3 - VB in class |
| M 9/23 |
Memory & Natural Mappings
Lab 4 - Memory Quiz 3 on DOET Chap. 3 |
| W 9/25 | Visual Basic Timers, Direct Manipulation
HW 2 due Lab 5 - VB in class |
| M 9/30 |
Menus and Information Organization, Information Architecture
Quiz 4 on Shneiderman Chap. 6 |
| W 10/2 |
Lab 6 - Card Sorting
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| M 10/7 |
Visual Basic Direct Manipulation
HW 3 assigned |
| W 10/9 | Test 1 - Covers through Oct. 2 class - 1 hr minutes
Web Layout & Wireframes |
| M 10/14 |
Slips and Mistakes
Quiz 5 on DOET Chap. 4 and 5 |
| W 10/16 | Natural Interface Lab
HW 3 due |
| M 10/21 | Expert Evaluation: Cognitive Walkthroughs and Heuristic Evaluations
See these notes for a good description of the 4-question version of the Cognitive Walkthrough method. Quiz 6 on DFAB Chap. 9 |
| W 10/23 | The Five Planes & Information Architecture |
| M 10/28 | UCD, Design Rationales
Quiz 7 on PRInCipleS HW 5 Expert Evaluation Due |
| W 10/30 | Scenarios, Wireframing, Prototyping |
| M 11/4 |
Task Analysis
Quiz 8 |
| W 11/6 | Visual Design, Typography, The Surface Plane |
| M 11/11 |
Lab 8 Clickable Prototype
HW 6 HTA Due |
| W 11/13 | Lab 9 Surface Plane |
| M 11/18 |
Experimental Design
Quiz 9 |
| W 11/20 | Test 2 |
| M 11/25 | Paper Prototype Testing Day
HW 7 Surface Plane due |
| W 11/27 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK |
| M 12/2 | Lab 10 Fitts' Law |
| W 12/4 | Project Presentations |
| M 12/9 | Test 3, 11:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Test 3 is cumulative |