CS 6540: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction

Fall 2021

Schedule

The course schedule is meant to serve as an outline and guide for this course. Please note that the schedule may be modified with reasonable notice in order to accommodate the needs of the class.

Monday

Wednesday

Due

Week 1

August 22-28

Introduction lecture

(slides)

Guest Lecture from Prof. James Agutter on Design

(slides | additional resources)

Due Tuesday:

Design Reflection

How to (seriously) read a scientific paper

Survey: Comfort level with proposed 8/30 reading

Week 2

August 29-September 4

Last day to add/drop is Friday, September 3

Paper discussion

(slides)

Paper discussion

(slides)

Due Sunday:

Leshed and Sengers. "I lie to myself that I have freedom in my own schedule": productivity tools and experiences of busyness. CHI 2011.

Due Tuesday:

Saha et al. Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data At Scale. CHI 2019.

Due Thursday:

Syllabus Quiz / Welcome Survey

Week 3

September 5-11

Labor Day

Think aloud lecture

Paper discussion

(slides | lucidspark board)

Due Tuesday:

Project 1: CITI Training / Ethics Study

Brad Meyers. A brief history of human-computer interaction technology. interactions 5(2), 1998.

Albrecht Schmidt. Following or Leading? The HCI Community and New Interaction Technologies. interactions 22(1), 2015.

Wobbrock and Kientz. Research contributions in human-computer interaction. interactions 23(3), 2016

Week 4

September 12-18

CoE counseling introduction

(slides)

Paper discussion

Think-aloud check-in

(slides | lucidspark board)

Heuristic evaluation lecture

(slides | lucidspark board)

Due Sunday:

Greenberg and Buxton. Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). CHI 2008.

Introducing Yourself Slide

Due Tuesday:

Justin Zobel. Writing for Computer Science. 2015. Chapter 2 (Getting Started).

Due Friday:

Project 2: Think-Aloud Protocol

Week 5

September 19-25

Paper discussion

(slides)

Group formation activity (slides)

Due Sunday:

Wu et al. "Something isn't secure, but I'm not sure how that translates into a problem": Promoting autonomy by designing for understanding in Signal. SOUPS 2019.

Due MONDAY:

Post research interests

Due Tuesday:

Justin Zobel. Writing for Computer Science. 2015. Chapter 3 (Reading and Reviewing).

Week 6

September 26-October 2

Methods lecture

(slides | additional resources: research paradigms course readings)

Group literature review activity

(slides)

Due Sunday:

Justin Judd’s talk: UX and Big Data Met At a Bar. 2013.

Due Tuesday:

Group Formation (everyone fill this out)

Due Friday:

Project 3: Heuristic Evaluation

Week 7

October 3-9

Paper discussion

(slides)

Methods & Research Design discussion

(heuristic evaluation slides | methods activity slides, lucidspark boards, references)

Due Sunday:

Peck et al. Data is Personal: Attitudes and Perceptions of Data Visualization in Rural Pennsylvania. CHI 2019.

Due Monday:

Project 4: Literature Review Milestone

Due Tuesday:

Selected entries from Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions

Due Friday:

Course Check-In Survey

Week 8

October 10-16

Fall Break

Week 9

October 17-23

Last day to withdraw is Friday, October 22

Interviewing lecture

(slides)

Paper discussion

(slides)

Due Sunday:

Project 4: Literature Review

Due Tuesday:

Votipka et al. Hackers vs. Testers: A Comparison of Software Vulnerability Discovery Processes. IEEE S&P 2018.

Week 10

October 24-30

Inter-group interview questions draft feedback

(slides)

Guest lecture from Prof. Jason Wiese on Developing Methods in HCI

(slides - do not share outside this class)

Due Sunday:

(As a group) Draft interview questions

Week 11

October 31-November 6

Coding lecture

(slides)

Coding activity

(slides | lucidspark board)

🎃Due Sunday:🎃

Keri Smith. How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum. 2008. pp 2-77

Due Tuesday:

Coding Exercise

Week 12

November 7-13

Coding Activity (continued)

( lucidspark board )

Paper discussion

Paper discussion

Due Sunday:

McDonald et al. Reliability and Inter-rater Reliability in Qualitative Research: Norms and Guidelines for CSCW and HCI Practice. CSCW 2019.

Due Tuesday:

Metatla et al. Robots for Inclusive Play: Co-designing an Educational Game With Visually Impaired and Sighted Children. CHI 2020.

Due Friday:

Project 5: Group Interview Project

Project 5: Interview Transcriptions

Week 13

November 14-20

Methods & Research Design discussion

(methods activity slides, lucidspark boards, references)

Paper discussion

(slides)

Due Sunday:

Crowdsourcing and Survey Research reading selections from Ways of Knowing in HCI

Due Tuesday:

Hara et al. A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk. CHI 2018.

Week 14

November 21-27

Thanksgiving break Thursday-Sunday

Inter-group questionnaire draft feedback

(slides)

Paper discussion

Due Sunday:

(As a group) Draft questionnaire questions

Justin Zobel. Writing for Computer Science. 2015. Chapter 5 (Writing a Paper).

Due Tuesday:

Gero et al. Mental Models of AI Agents in a Cooperative Game Setting. CHI 2020.

🦃Due Wednesday:🦃

Final Report Introduction Draft

Week 15

November 28-December 4

Guest lecture from Prof. Erik Brunvand on Kinetic Art

(slides | additional readings - do not share outside this class)

Ethics discussion

(slides | Encore case study)

Due Sunday:

Understand Disney's 12 principles of animation

Due Tuesday:

Burnett and Feamster. Encore: Lightweight Measurement of Web Censorship with Cross-Origin Requests. SIGCOMM 2015.

Due Friday:

Project 6: Online Questionnaires via Amazon Mechanical Turk

Week 16

December 5-11

Classes end on Thursday, December 9

Inter-group poster draft feedback

Discussion

Poster session for group projects

gather.town link

Due Sunday:

Draft of Project Poster

Due Tuesday:

Final Project Poster

Finals Week

December 13-17

No final exam

Due Friday:

Project 8: Final Project Report