Monday | 11:10-noon | Normally: H.R.B Lecture Theater, Robinson Building Oct 16: Room 425 Anatomy Lecture Theater - Doorway 3 Medical School, Teviot Nov 13: Room 425 Anatomy Lecture Theater - Doorway 3 Medical School, Teviot |
Thursday | 11:10-noon | G.07 Meadows Lecture Theater - Doorway 4, Medical School, Teviot Central |
1. | 18 Sep |
Introduction / Design Process |
2. | 21 Sep |
Defining Problems Long Reading: How to understand problems by Andrew J. Ko Long Reading: How to define problems by Andrew J. Ko |
3. | 25 Sep | Interviews and Contextual Inquery's Short Reading: UMD: 20. Contextual Inquery Long Reading: 8 Tips for Conducting UX Interviews Long Reading: How to Conduct User Interviews |
4. | 28 Sep | Contextual Inquery, Storyboards, and Design Patterns Short Reading: UMD: 82. Storyboards Short Reading: User Interface Design Patterns - Do not read all of this site. Instead read a couple of the patterns under "User Interface Design Patterns". I do not expect you to have all the patterns on this site memorized. Long Reading: IDF: Design Principles |
5. | 2 Oct |
Affordances, Metaphores, and Page Layout Long Reading: Designed for Use: Chapter 7: Text Usability Long Reading: Designed for Use: Chapter 8: Hierarchies in User Interface Design Long Reading: How to design user interfaces by Andrew J. Ko |
6. | 5 Oct |
The Human Computer and Gestalt Principles Gestalt Human Computer Long Reading: Designing with the Mind in Mind Chapter 2 |
7. | 9 Oct |
Tasks and Heuristics Tasks and Subtasks Heuristics Short Reading: UMD: 46. Heuristic Evaluation Long Reading: Ten Usability Heuristics by Jakob Nielsen |
8. | 12 Oct |
Cognitive Walkthrough Cognitive Walkthrough Video: Simple example of a cognitive walkthrough Short Reading: UMD: 13. Cognitive Walkthrough Short Reading: UMD: 93. Usability Report |
9. | 16 Oct | Ethics Ethics Long Reading: The Belmont Report Video: Ethical and Privacy Issues in Data Science - A lecture Kami Vaniea previously gave in a Data Science Lecture series on research ethics. |
10. | 19 Oct |
Lab Studies Lab Studies Short Reading: UMD: 84. Task Analysis Short Reading: UMD: 87. Think Aloud Short Reading: UMD: 94. Usability Testing Supplimentary: Guide to conducting Think-Alouds |
11. | 23 Oct |
Think Aloud and Focus Groups Lab Studies Cont. Focus Groups Short Reading: UMD: 43. Focus Groups Long Reading: How to Conduct Focus Groups |
12. | 26 Oct |
Questionaires Questionairs Supplimentary: Likert-Type Scale Respons Anchors Supplimentary: Example of a professional-grade survey designed to test how inclusive a course is. The last section (p126-158) describes how to interpret the survey. Supplimentary: Too Much Knowledge? Security Beliefs and Protective Behaviors Among US Internet Users by Rick Wash and Emilee Rader - Excellent example of how to do a large scale survey the correct way. |
13. | 30 Oct |
Study Design Study Design Long Read: When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods. Long Read: UX Research Cheat Sheet. Supplimentary: System Usability Scale - basic questionaire for assessing usability of an interface. |
14. | 2 Nov |
GOMS Study Design Cont. GOMS Long Read: Wikipedia on GOMS. |
15. | 6 Nov | Qualitative Data Analysis Qualitative Long Read: What is External Validity in Research?. |
16. | 9 Nov | Case Studies in Experiments No slides. Short Reading: UMD: 68. Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation (RITE) Cases: Experiment case studies. |
17. | 13 Nov | Communicating Results Handout: Cloze Test Handout Long Read: How to critique by Andrew J. Ko. Long Read: Testing Content by Angela Colter Long Read: Designed for Use: Text Usability (Chapter 7) |
18. | 16 Nov | Class Canceled |
19. | 20 Nov | Mental Models |
20. | 23 Nov | Accessability Long Read: Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers by Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice Redish |
21. | 27 Nov | Revision |
22. | 30 Nov | Revision |
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