Schedule

Classes meet on Monday 4:30 to 7:10pm in Science&Technology I room 212 (map).

Office hours: instructor by appointment (jpsousa  at  g m u);

                        TA: Nariman Mirzaei, Weds 3-4pm, Eng Building room 5321 (nmirzaei   at  g m u)

date

topic

readings

assignments

1/23

Introduction

C+1; $300M button

 

1/30

User Models; Android

D+1, 13; C+ 2, 3, 5

profile on Piazza

2/06

Task Modeling; Project

C+ 6, 7; D+15

2/13

Lab c1

Lab c1, Prj 1 due

2/20

Evaluation, vid, ex1, ex2

D+6, 9; C+ 4

Prj 2 due

2/27

GUIs Technical background

D+2; C+ 21-24

e1 due

3/05

Design

D+7; C+ 9-12; DontMakeMeThink

Lab c2 due

3/12

no class – Spring Break

3/19

Project formative evaluation

e2 due 3/23

3/26

Midterm

4/02

no class – work on project

Prj 3 due

4/09

Direct Manipulation

C+ 13, 19

4/16

Usability Heuristics

C+ 8, 25

4/23

Project user study

4/30

Poster session

Prj 4

5/7

no class – reading day

Prj 5 due 5/09

5/14

Final Exam

 

Note 1: D+ refers to chapters in the textbook by Dix et al; C+ to chapters in the one by Cooper et al.