CS 3041 - Human Computer Interaction - D17

A Point of View for the Course:

User-Based Psychological Analysis of Computer Software

The User's Bill of Rights

Ready, Get Set ...

• Early in the course read this from Sun, about Page design and redesign, Card Sorting, Icon Design, and Useability Testing.

General Information: Key Information, including: Contacts, Grading, Books, Due dates. Class Schedule Course content & notes Course map Course outcomes Related Courses Example Principles & Guidelines: Selected Universal Principles of Design TOG's First Principles of Interaction Design GUI Blooper Examples 100 Interface Design Guidelines	Projects: Overview of Projects Project 1 - mixture   (evaluation scheme) Project 2 - experiment   (evaluation scheme) Project 3 - design         (evaluation scheme)         (groups)         (presentations)         (group eval) Project 4 - program  (evaluation scheme)
Videos: Video: "Creating a well designed user interface", by Tandy Trower Summary of Contents Collected HCI videos	Extra Fun: Embassy English The Power of Shift Guide to Error Messages Error Message Haiku Microsoft Messages I just can't take it anymore! Tech Call (We're not normal) Funny (And real) error messages Real Human Interface Fatal error buddy! by Alan Cooper. Enter you phone number In Defense of Print "Nielsen's first law of computer documentation is that users don't read it."
Web Resources: A large collection of web based resources for the course are available that cover HCI, Interface Guidelines, unusual interfaces, Visual Basic, web page development, etc. (Note: not kept up-to-date).