Winter 2011
Changes in red.
The Project component of
this course involves doing a research project and producing a research
paper. The paper must be
formatted as per submissions to "CHI" – the ACM Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems, sponsored by the ACM's SIGCHI. Here is the template
file describing the CHI publications format.
For the research project,
you must conduct some research and write a paper on it. The research should involve doing a
comparative evaluation of two or more interfaces or interaction
techniques. The evaluation should
include independent variables (at least one), dependent variables (at least
two), and data analyses as typically found in HCI research papers. Consult the slides presented in class
and the evaluations presented in papers read for the course as guidelines.
Tips on writing and
formatting of the research paper are given in the template file, and were (or
will be) elaborated in class.
The paper should be 4-5
formatted pages for undergrads (4441), 7-8 formatted pages for grads
(5351). Cite and reference at
least six (6) published papers. Your
submission should use, or be consistent with, the styles embedded in the
template file for headings, paragraphs, figures, captions, etc.
Submission. Submit your project paper as PDF and DOC files in Prism
using the command 'submit 4441 project project.xxx', where xxx is either pdf or doc. Files sent to the course professor by email attachment will
not be accepted.
Submit any extra files you
feel are useful; but please explain in a readme.txt file. For example, a video might be useful to demonstrate your
apparatus or to demonstrate participants interacting with the apparatus.