Fall 2010
Instructor: Nigel Ward
Time:1:30 - 2:50, Mondays and Wednesdays, Room 322.
Textbook:
Designing the User Interface, 5th edition. Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. Addison-Wesley, 2010.
Details:Syllabus (.pdf)
Recommended Reading
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design.
Jenifer Tidwell. O'Reilly, 2006.(link) - User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach.
Daniel D. McCracken and Rosalee J. Wolfe. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. (link) - Building Interactive Systems.
Dan R. Olsen Jr. Course Technology, 2010.(link)
Online Resources
- HCI Videos etc.
- Rosson and Carroll's Usability Case Studies
- AIGA's Experience Design Case Study Archive
- OK/Cancel Comics
- Don't Click It
Sample Tests from 2008: Test 1, Test 2, Final; from 2006: Test 1, Test 2, Final
Software: Tcl for Saul Greenberg's mouse-typing exercise: source code (.tgz)
Sample Java GUI code: Raindrops.java, RainGame.java