CPSC 554M
Topics in Human Computer Interaction
Universal Usability, CSCW, and Personalization
UBC Computer Science - Winter 2012/13

1. [Optional] Myers, B. (1998). A Brief History to Human-Computer Interaction Technology. ACM Interactions, 5(2), 44-54. (doi)

2. Landauer, T. (1995). The Trouble with Computers. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ** Read until the end of Section I, pages 1 to 77. ** (handout)

Assignment 2 out

3. Norman, D.A. (1986). Cognitive Engineering. In D.A. Norman, S.W. Draper (Eds.), User Centered System Design (pp 31-61).   (handout)

4. Norman, D.A. (2002). Emotion & design: Attractive things work better. ACM Interactions, 9(4), 36-42. (doi)

Project assigned

Thurs Jan 13

5. McGrath, J. (1994). Methodology matters: Doing research in the behavioural and social sciences. BGBG, p. 152-169. (handout)

6. Greenberg, S. and Buxton, B. (2008). Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). Proceedings of ACM CHI '08, 111-120. (doi)

Introductory lecture on topic. [PDF slides 4up]

7. Newman, W.M., and Lamming, M.G. (1995). Chapter 10: Experiments in support of design, 215 - 248. (handout) [no Assignment 0 required]

8. Mackay, W. E. 1995. Ethics, lies and videotape…. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Denver, Colorado, United States, May 07 - 11, 1995). CHI '95. ACM, New York, NY, 138-145. (doi) (online PDF File)

Also required:

Read the Ethics Protocol for 544, and related documents.

Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS) on the ethical conduct for research involving humans.
You must take the TCPS tutorial and email me a copy of the certificate of completion. (tutorial)

Evaluation:  Experimental Design II [instructor]

9. Vicente, K.J., and Torenvliet, G.L. (2000). The earth is spherical (p<0.05): Alternative methods of statistical inference. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 1(3), 248-271. (online PDF)

 TOPIC I: Universal Usability [instructor]

If you did not take 544, read:

10a. Shneiderman, B. (2000). Universal usability, Communications of the ACM, May 2000, 43(5), 84 - 91. (doi)

else, read:

10b. Jennifer Mankoff, Gillian R. Hayes, and Devva Kasnitz. 2010. Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology. In Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3-10. (doi)

Project Phase II out

11. Massimi, M., Baecker, R. M., and Wu, M. 2007. Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones. In Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15 - 17, 2007). Assets '07. ACM, New York, NY, 155-162. (doi)

Universal Usability: Children

12. Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson, and Allison Druin. 2006. The evolution of the international children's digital library searching and browsing interface. In Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children (IDC '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 105-112.  (doi)

13. Ho-Ching, F. W., Mankoff, J., and Landay, J. A. 2003. Can you see what i hear?: the design and evaluation of a peripheral sound display for the deaf. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, April 05 - 10, 2003). CHI '03. ACM, New York, NY, 161-168.  (doi)

Universal Usability: Visual Impairments [Louise Oram:

14. Denise Prescher, Gerhard Weber, and Martin Spindler. 2010. A tactile windowing system for blind users. In Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 91-98. (doi) 

15. Wu, M., Birnholtz, J., Richards, B., Baecker, R., and Massimi, M. 2008. Collaborating to remember: a distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 825-834.  (doi)

Universal Usability: Motor Impairments

16. Leah Findlater, Alex Jansen, Kristen Shinohara, Morgan Dixon, Peter Kamb, Joshua Rakita, and Jacob O. Wobbrock. 2010. Enhanced area cursors: reducing fine pointing demands for people with motor impairments. In Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 153-162. (doi)

Using Video - Part I (somewhat optional)

Preparation & readings

Using Video - Part II (somewhat optional)

Preparation & readings

17. Grudin, J. 1988. Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluationof organizational interfaces. In Proceedings of the 1988 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (Portland, Oregon, United States, September 26 - 28, 1988). CSCW '88. ACM, New York, NY, 85-93. (doi)

CSCW: Distributed-asynchronous applications [Syavash Nobarany:]

18. J. J. Cadiz, Anop Gupta, and Jonathan Grudin. 2000. Using Web annotations for asynchronous collaboration around documents. In Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '00). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 309-318. (doi)

In class mini presentations on Project Phase II

Project Phase III out

19. Rebecca Grinter and Margery Eldridge. 2003. Wan2tlk?: everyday text messaging. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 441-448. (doi)

CSCW: Colocated-asynchronous applications

20. Greenberg, S. and Rounding, M. 2001. The notification collage: posting information to public and personal displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Seattle, Washington, United States). CHI '01. ACM, New York, NY, 514-521. (doi)

21. Shoemaker, G. B. and Inkpen, K. M. 2001. Single display privacyware: augmenting public displays with private information. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Seattle, Washington, United States). CHI '01. ACM, New York, NY, 522-529. (doi)

CSCW: Large Screen Displays [Vasanth Kumar Rajendran:]

22. Nacenta, M. A., Sallam, S., Champoux, B., Subramanian, S., and Gutwin, C. 2006. Perspective cursor: perspective-based interaction for multi-display environments. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 289-298. (doi)

23. Morris, M. R., Paepcke, A., Winograd, T., and Stamberger, J. 2006. TeamTag: exploring centralized versus replicated controls for co-located tabletop groupware. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 1273-1282. (doi)

Small Screen Displays [David Kerr:]

24. Wigdor, D., Forlines, C., Baudisch, P., Barnwell, J., and Shen, C. 2007. Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 269-278. (doi)

25. McGrenere, J., and Moore, G. (2000). Are we all in the same "bloat"? In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 15 - 17, 2000). GI 2000. Canadian Human-Compuer Communications Society, 187-196. (online copy)

Personalization: Learners [Oliver Schneider:]

26. Grossman, T., Fitzmaurice, G., and Attar, R. 2009. A survey of software learnability: metrics, methodologies and guidelines. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 649-658. (doi)

27. Kurtenbach, G. and Buxton, W. 1993. The limits of expert performance using hierarchic marking menus. In Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24 - 29, 1993). CHI '93. ACM, New York, NY, 482-487. (doi)

Personalization: Adaptable Approaches [Mona Haraty:]

28. Stuerzlinger, W., Chapuis, O., Phillips, D., and Roussel, N. 2006. User interface façades: towards fully adaptable user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Montreux, Switzerland, October 15 - 18, 2006). UIST '06. ACM, New York, NY, 309-318. (doi)

29. Gajos, K. Z., Czerwinski, M., Tan, D. S., and Weld, D. S. 2006. Exploring the design space for adaptive graphical user interfaces. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual interfaces (Venezia, Italy, May 23 - 26, 2006). AVI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 201-208. (doi)

Personalization: Mixed-Initiative Approaches

30. Horvitz, E., Breese, J., Heckerman, D., Hovel, D., & Rommelse, K. (1998). The Lumiere Project: Bayesian user modeling for inferring the goals and needs of software users. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 256 - 265. (online file)

31. Iqbal, S. T. and Horvitz, E. 2007. Disruption and recovery of computing tasks: field study, analysis, and directions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 677-686. (doi)

Personalization: Interruption II - How to interrupt?

32. Gluck, J., Bunt, A., and McGrenere, J. 2007. Matching attentional draw with utility in interruption. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 41-50. (doi)

Tues Apr 19, 10-1,  x836

Special session in lieu of final exam.