Assignments

(All Assignments are subject to change)

Projects
  • Project 1: Ethnography (Example List of Topics)
  • Project 2: TA Assistant
  • Project 3: Ethnography Design Project
    Design a digital artifact that would aid of the lives of the group of people you are studying in your ethnography. Make sure you have plenty of mock - ups for the designed application. Your project report should follow the paper writing guide. The deliverables for this project - a report and a presentation - should be completed in the fashion similar to the requirements in Project 2. The project 2 is due on April 19. .

  • Final Project
    Implement and test a CHI artifact. We encourage using designs from Project 2 or Project 3. The project group may also propose a new topic instead. Projects are expected to have the following: 
    • Written Report:
      • Motivation - Sufficient motivation for developing the project
      • Related Work - full coverage the previous work
      • Implementation - complete demo - able implementation of the project
      • Evaluation - a mature evaluation of the system developed
      • Results and Discussion - a sophisticated discussion about the results obtained from the evaluation. 

Conference Paper Reading Assignments
  • Source conferences
    • CHI 2010
    • UIST 2009 & 2010
    • IUI 2009 & 2010
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  • Assigned conference paper readings list
  • Additional notes
    • Every student is assigned 25 papers to read. The assignment for each student is listed in the following spreadsheet (your assigned reading is listed in BOLD):
    • Every student would have to write a blog on the papers assigned to each of them. The blogs would be evaluated at the end of every month. The evaluation metric for writing the blogs is listed under:
    • A guide for writing your the blog can be found below and in the Guides section:
    • In addition to writing blog posts, students are required to present 3 papers during the lecture hours.
    • The papers cannot be accessed when outside TAMU network. Please use the TAMU VPN or CS VPN to connect to tamu network or access the paper after logging in through library website.

Reading Material (Amazon list of books)
  • HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community
    • edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald
    • 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      .
  • Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
    • by Lauren Slater
    • 2008 W.W. Norton & Company
      .
  • Design of Everyday Things
    • by Donald Norman
    • 2002 Basic Books
  • Emotional Design
    • by Donald Norman

  • Living with Complexity
    • by Don Norman
    • 2010 Basic Books
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  • Obedience to Authority: an Experimental View
    • by Stanley Milgram
    • 2009 Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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  • Things that Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
    • by Don Norman
    • 1994 Basic Books
    • Why We Make Mistakes
      • by Joseph T. Hallinan
      • 2009 Crown Archetype
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    • Coming of Age in Samoa
      • by Margaret Mead
      • 1928 (1971) Harper Perennial
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    • [Optional] Margaret Mead and the Heretic (Originally published as Margaret Mead and the Samoa 1983)
      • by Derek Freeman
      • Harvard University Press and Penguin Books

    Course Themes
    • Why we need UI design / CHI
      • Design of Everyday Things
        • Entire book
      • The Inmates are Running the Asylum
        • Part I
        • Part II
          .
    • Introduction to Ethnography
      • Coming of Age in Samoa
        • Entire book
          .
    • Understanding Humans - Psychology
      • Opening Skinner's Box
        • Conditioning: Chapters 1, 7 (51 pages)
        • Memory experiments: Chapters 8, 9, 10 (67 pages)
        • Group responsibility, Rationalization, Love: Chapters 4, 5, 6 (64 pages)
      • Obedience to Authority
        • Chapters 1 - 8 (80 pages) [Note: very fast read]
        • Chapters 9 - 14 (66 pages) [Note: very fast read]
          .
    • Understanding Humans - Software Development perspective
      • The Inmates are Running the Asylum
        • Part 3 (46 pages)
      • The Media Equation
        • Section 2 (52 pages)
        • Sections 3,4 (63 pages)
        • Section 5 (46 pages)
        • Section 6 (53 pages)
      • Emotional Designs
        • Chapters 1, 2
          .
    • Design principles
      • Design of Everyday Things
        • Chapters 4, 5 (60 pages)
        • Chapter 6 (46 pages)
      • Emotional Design
        • Chapters 3, 4
        • Chapters 5, 6
      • The Inmates are Running the Asylum
        • Chapters 9, 10
        • Chapters 11, 12, 13 (62 pages)
          .
    • Novel UI designs
      • HCI Remixed
        • Set 1: 6 chapters (30 pages)
          • Section 1: Chapters 1, 4, 5
          • Section 4: Chapters 18, 20, 23
        • Set 2: 6 chapters (30 pages)
          • Section 5: Chapters 24-28
          • Section 6: Chapter 34
        • Set 3: 6 chapters (30 pages)
          • Section 2: Chapters 6, 7, 9, 10
          • Section 8: Chapters 46, 47
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