CSE 4441/5351 – Winter 2012
Human-Computer Interaction

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Scott MacKenzie

CSE 3045

TR 11:00-12:00

20-Apr-12

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Apr 20, 2012 – Project reports have been graded with final course grades submitted to the Registrar.  You can pickup your final reports, annotated with my comments, at the CSE main office.  Have a great summer – Scott.


Mar 29, 2012 – Here are the data we compiled in class for the projects: ProjectTopicsAndVariables.pdf.


Mar 27, 2012 – As mentioned in class today, the deadline for the assignment has been extended by two days to April 11.  Note: This is a hard deadline.


Mar 8, 2012 – Here are the slides for the topic Empirical Research Methods for Human-Computer Interaction.


Mar 3, 2012 – Here are the results from the experiment we in class on Thursday: SimpleExperiment-results-4441-w12.xls.


Feb 28, 2012 – Project requirements now posted.  See the main course web page or click here.


Feb 21, 2012 – Marks are now posted for Assignment #1 and the midterm exam.  To view your marks, logon to Prism and issue the command courseInfo 4441.  The assignments and exams will be returned in class next week.


Feb 14, 2012 – Here are the slides for topic #4, Design, 04-Design.pdf.


Feb 14, 2012 – Here are the slides for topic #3, The Interaction, 03-TheInteraction.pdf.  Also, the midterm exam is set.  The exam is Thursday.  All questions are “short-answer”.  Total marks = 49.  To prepare, study the course slides and the papers identified as readings in the slides.


Feb 7, 2012 – I have updated the slides for topic #2, based on recent changes.  Please re-download the slides (link is below).


Feb 7, 2012 – I have to be away on Thursday.  Steven Castellucci will be giving the lecture.  Also, no office hours.


Jan 31, 2012 – Here are the slides for topic #1, The Human, 01-TheHuman.pdf, which I forgot to post earlier. 

 

As well, here are the slides for topic #2, The Computer, 02-TheComputer.pdf.  We are not yet finished this topic, but I thought it might be useful to post the slides now.  They might be updated as we work our way through this topic. 

 

Finally, click here to download a zip file containing the Java programs BuildKeystrokes, KSPCWords, and T9, which were demo’d in class last Thursday.  A number of people have asked for these programs, so here they are.  There are a few supporting files as well.  To use these, first do a  compile all (javac *.java).  For each program, there is command-line help to get you started.  Also the word-frequency dictionary file, d1-wordfreq.txt (or something equivalent) is required.  It is contained in the zip. Recall that using the T9 program requires you to first build a word-freq-keystroke file using BuildKeystrokes.  Good luck.


Jan 16, 2012 – Click here to download the results of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory we completed in class last Thursday.


Jan 10, 2012 – Assignment #1 now posted.  See the main course web page or click here.


Jan 5, 2012 – Here are the slides for topic #0: Historical Perspective, 00-HistoricalPerspective.pdf. 

 

As mentioned in class, your homework is to download and read a recent paper from the ACM SIGCHI Conference Proceedings.  Pick a paper on any topic you find interesting.  I’ll ask each person to say a few things about their paper on Tuesday.  To download a paper, go to the ACM Digital Library, click on “Proceedings” and then search for “SIGCHI” until you find the links for the “Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems” (the formal name for the CHI conference). 


Jan 3, 2012 – Please try to read the handout (“Historical Perspective”) before Thursday’s class.  Also, if you spot any typos or errors in the handout, please make annotations on the handout and show these to me.  A number of typos or errors have already been pointed out to me – greatly appreciated.  See you Thursday.


Dec 22, 2011 – CSE4441/5351 web page up and running.  Look here for announcements, downloads, etc.