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Human Computer Interaction: CPSC 544
UBC Computer Science - Fall 2008 |
NOTE: The schedule is not fully finalized.
This is an advanced readings course in Human-Computer Interaction. Every student is expected to answer questions about each paper before the class. Those questions will be used to guide the discussion that takes place in class.
There is no official textbook for this course, although a number of readings
can be found in:
Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 by
Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A.S. Buxton, and Saul
Greenberg (BGBG)
In addition, some readings are available over the web, and some will be
available in hardcopy in the computer science reading room (RR).
| # | Date | Topics and Readings | Deliverables |
| 1 |
Tue Sept 9
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Overview and Introduction
1. [Optional] Myers, B. (1998). A Brief History to Human-Computer Interaction Technology. ACM Interactions, 5(2), 44-54. (web) |
Assignment 0
out |
| 2 |
Thu Sept 11 |
Copies of readings available in class on Tuesday - read 1 of these 2 in depth and do the Assignment 0 on it - can skim the second paper if needs be What's the Problem? 2. Landauer, T. (1995). The Trouble with Computers. The MIT Press. ** Read until the end of Section I, pages 1 to 77. ** Design 3. How to Design Usable Systems, Gould (Excerpt reprinted in BGBG, p. 93 - 121) |
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| 3 | Tue Sept 16 |
Design (cont'd) 4. Sutcliffe, A. (2000). On the effective use and reuse of HCI knowledge. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 7, 2 (Jun. 2000), 197-221. web 5. [Optional] Norman, D.A. (1988). The Psychopathology of Everyday Things. (Excerpt reprinted in BGBG, p. 5 - 21) (I assume that most of you have read this already, but it is always worth a second read.) 6. Norman, D.A. (2002). Emotion & design: Attractive things work better. ACM Interactions, 9(4), 36-42. (web) |
Assignment 1 out
Assignment 2 out |
| 4 | Thu Sept 18
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Evaluation: General
7. McGrath, J. (1994). Methodology matters: Doing research in the behavioural and social sciences. (BGBG 152-169) [Optional] Greenberg, S. and Buxton, B. (2008). Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). 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, 111-120. web |
Project assigned |
| 5 | Tue Sept 23 |
Evaluation: Experimental
Design I Evaluation: Experimental Design II 8. 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. ( pdf) |
Assignment 1: preferences due (5pm) |
| 6 | Thu Sept 25 |
Evaluation: Experimental
Design II Evaluation: The ethics of working with human subjects 9. Mackay, W. (1995). Ethics, lies and videotape… Proceedings of ACM CHI 95, 138 - 145. PDF File. [optional] Tang, J. C., Liu, S. B., Muller, M., Lin, J., and Drews, C. 2006. Unobtrusive but invasive: using screen recording to collect field data on computer-mediated interaction. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM, New York, NY, 479-482. DOI Ethics Protocol for 544. Required: take the TCPS tutorial and email/give me a copy of your certificate of completion. |
Assignment 1: mapping of student to paper posted. |
| 7 | Tue Sept 30 |
Human Motor Capabilities Fitts' Law Basics 10. MacKenzie, I. S. (1992). Movement time prediction in human-computer interfaces. (Reprinted in BGBG 483-493) online copy. Applying Fitts' Law to Design 11. Forlines, C., Wigdor, D., Shen, C., and Balakrishnan, R. 2007. Direct-touch vs. mouse input for tabletop displays. 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, 647-656. DOI |
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| 8 | Thu Oct 2 |
In class mini presentations on Project Phase I |
Project Phase II out |
| - | Fri Oct 3 - Wed Oct 8 | Proposal reviews with each team (scheduling TBA) | |
| 9 | Tue Oct 7 |
User Centred Design
Ethnography: Dourish, P. 2006. Implications for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds. CHI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 541-550. DOI [Optional] Anschuetz, L. and Rosenbaum, S. 2003. Ethnographic interviews guide design of ford vehicles website. In CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, April 05 - 10, 2003). CHI '03. ACM, New York, NY, 652-653. DOI Contextual Design Beyer, H. and Holtzblatt, K. 1999. Contextual design. interactions 6, 1 (Jan. 1999), 32-42. DOI [Optional] Wixon, D. R., Ramey, J., Holtzblatt, K., Beyer, H., Hackos, J., Rosenbaum, S., Page, C., Laakso, S. A., and Laakso, K. 2002. Usability in practice: field methods evolution and revolution. In CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 20 - 25, 2002). CHI '02. ACM, New York, NY, 880-884. DOI |
Project Phase I report due
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| 10 | Thu Oct 9 |
User Interface Complexity: What's the problem? [Chirag Vesvuvala] 12. McGrenere, J., and Moore, G. (2000). Are we all in the same "bloat"? Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000, 187-196. PDF File. 13. [Optional] Hsi, I. & Potts, C. (2000). Studying the evolution and enhancement of software features. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, 143 - 151. PDF File. User Interface Complexity: Adaptable Interfaces [open]
14. McGrenere, J., Baecker, R. M., and Booth, K. S. (2007). A field evaluation of an adaptable two-interface design for feature-rich software. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 14, 1 (May. 2007), http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1229855.1229858 |
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| 11 | Tue Oct 14 |
Social Interaction Design [Camille Grange] 15. Girgensohn, A. and Lee, A. 2002. Making web sites be places for social interaction. In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 16 - 20, 2002). CSCW '02. ACM, New York, NY, 136-145. url Social Navigation [open] 16. Bilandzic, M., Foth, M., and De Luca, A. 2008. CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems (Cape Town, South Africa, February 25 - 27, 2008). DIS '08. ACM, New York, NY, 174-183. url |
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| 12 | Thu Oct 16 |
Personal Information Management: Information Organization
[open]
17. Boardman, R. and Sasse, M. A. (2004). Stuff goes into the computer and doesn't come out": a cross-tool study of personal information management. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
583-590. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/985692.985766
Personal Information Management: Information Seeking on the Web[open] 18. Kellar, M., Watters, C., Inkpen, K.M. (2007). An exploration of web-based monitoring: implications for design, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 377-386. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240686 |
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| 13 | Tue Oct 21 |
Personal Information Management: Personalizing PIM
[Simon Olberding] 19. Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom,R., Nachmias, R. (2008). The user-subjective approach to personal information management systems design: Evidence and implementations J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 59(2), 235-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.v59:2 Personal Information Management: Evaluating PIM systems [open]
20. Elsweiler, D. and Ruthven, I. (2007). Towards task-based personal information management evaluations. Proceedings of the 30th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval, 23-30. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1277741.1277748 |
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| 14 | Thu Oct 23 |
CSCW: Introduction
[open] 21. Grudin, J. (1988). Why CSCW Applications Fail: Problems in the design and evaluation of organizational interfaces, Proceedings of ACM CSCW 1988, 85-93. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/62266.62273 CSCW: Evaluating CSCW [open]22. Neale, D. C., Carroll, J. M., and Rosson, M. B. 2004. Evaluating computer-supported cooperative work: models and frameworks. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM, New York, NY, 112-121. DOI |
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| 15 | Tue Oct 28 |
CSCW: Architecture [open] 23. Xia, S., Sun, D., Sun, C., Chen, D., and Shen, H. 2004. Leveraging single-user applications for multi-user collaboration: the coword approach. Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2004, 162-171. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1031607.1031635 CSCW: Large Screen Displays [Alex Bradley]24. Greenberg, S. and Rounding, M. (2001). The notification collage: posting information to public and personal displays. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2001, 514 - 521. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/365024.365339 |
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| 16 | Thu Oct 30 | Small Screen Displays
[Thomas Hazelton] 25. Kamba T., Elson, S., Harpold, T., Stamper, T., and Sukaviriya, P. (1996). Using small screen space more efficiently, Proceedings of ACM CHI 96, 383-390. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/238386.238582 CSCW: Awareness and Tabletop Displays [open] 26. Pinelle, D., Nacenta, M., Gutwin, C., and Stach, T. 2008. The effects of co-present embodiments on awareness and collaboration in tabletop groupware. In Proceedings of Graphics interface 2008 (Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 28 - 30, 2008). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 322. Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, 1-8.DOI |
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| 17 | Tue Nov 4 | In class mini presentations on Project Phase II | Project Phase III out |
| 18 | Thu Nov 6 |
Phase II portfolios due - drop off in KAIS 4044 Group work/self-directed video tutorial (see below for resources) |
Project Phase II due |
| - | Tue Nov 11 | Remembrance Day (no class) | |
| 21 | Thu Nov 13 |
Kirstie Away - Self-Directed Tutorial and/or Group Work
Using Video - Part I Preparation & readings Using Video - Part II Preparation & readings |
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| 22 | Tue Nov 18 |
Visual Privacy [open]
27. Hawkey, K. and Inkpen, K. M. 2007. PrivateBits: managing visual privacy in web browsers. In Proceedings of Graphics interface 2007 (Montreal, Canada, May 28 - 30, 2007). GI '07, vol. 234. ACM, New York, NY, 215-223. DOI Privacy Toolbox [open] 28. Iachello, G. and Abowd, G. D. 2008. From privacy methods to a privacy toolbox: Evaluation shows that heuristics are complementary. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 15, 2 (Jul. 2008), 1-30. DOI |
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| 22 | Thu Nov 20 |
Usable Security: For Experts [open] 29.Werlinger, R., Hawkey, K., Muldner, K., Jaferian, P., and Beznosov, K. 2008. The challenges of using an intrusion detection system: is it worth the effort?. In Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23 - 25, 2008). SOUPS '08. ACM, New York, NY, 107-118. DOI Usable Security: For the rest of us [open] 30. Egelman, S., Cranor, L. F., and Hong, J. 2008. You've been warned: an empirical study of the effectiveness of web browser phishing warnings. 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, 1065-1074. DOI | |
| 23 | Tue Nov 25 |
Universal Usability:
Introduction
[Donald Johnson] 31. Shneiderman, B. (2000). Universal usability, Communications of the ACM, May 2000, 43(5), 84 - 91. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/332833.332843 Universal Usability: The elderly [open] 32. Apted, T., Kay, J., and Quigley, A. 2006. Tabletop sharing of digital photographs for the elderly. Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, 781-790. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124887 |
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| 24 | Thu Nov 27 |
Universal Usability: Cognitive Impairments [open] 33. Wu, M., Baecker, R., and Richards, B. (2005). Participatory design of an orientation aid for amnesics. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005, 511 - 520. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1054972.1055043 Universal Usability: Visual Impairments [open] 34. Alty, J. L. and Rigas, D. I. (1998). Communicating graphical information to blind users using music: the role of context. Proceedings of CHI '98, 574-581. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/274644.274721 |
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| 25 |
Thu Dec 4 |
Project Stage III Presentations, followed by lunch Special session in lieu of
final exam - location TBA |
Project Phase III Presentations |
| 26 | Thu Dec 11 | hand in Project Stage III Portfolios (KAIS 4044) |
Project Phase III
Portfolios due |