Lectures

If you miss a lecture

• Lecture notes are here
• Ask a classmate for a summary of what was discussed
• If necessary visit the lecturer or tutor during their office hours

This is the planned schedule, but changes can occur without warning!

Note: If you are looking for the Assignment 1 lecture it is in the "Assignments" page.

Week 1

• Lecture 1: Introduction to HCI
• Lecture 2: Interaction Paradigms . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 1
• Lecture 3: Interaction Frameworks . . . . . . . Required Reading Heim - Sections 2.1 and 2.2

Week 2

• Lecture 4: Interaction Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Section 2.3
• Lecture 5: Interaction Design Process . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 3
• Lecture 6: Discovery - Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 4.1, 4.2

Week 3

• Lecture 7: Discovery - Interpretation and Documentation . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 4.3 and 4.4
• Lecture 8: Design Conceptual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 5.1 - 5.3
• Lecture 9: Physical and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 5.4 - 5.7

Week 4

• Lecture 10: Design Principles (I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 6.1 - 6.5
• Lecture 11: Design Principles (II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 6.6 - 6.11
• Lecture 12: Guest Lecture - Peter Reid

Week 5

• Lecture 13: Design Models (I) - MHP, KLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 7.1 and 7.2
• Lecture 14: Design Models (II) - GOMS, State Trans . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sectioins 7.3 - 7.5
• Lecture 15: Design Models (III) - Hicks' and Fitts' Law . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Sections 7.4 and 7.6

Week 6

• Lecture 16: Design Models (IV) - Form Charts . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Formcharts
• Lecture 17: Task Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Dix et. al. - Chapter 15
• Lecture 18: SWING Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Section 5.6 and SWING (TBC)

Week 7

• Lecture 19: SWING Control Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 10 CirclePaint
• Lecture 20: SWING Layout Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 10 and SWING:
• Lecture 21: No Lecture - Program/Test Prep

Week 8

• Lecture 22: Test
• Lecture 23: User Support . . . . . . . . . . . . Not in text
  
• Lecture 24: No Lecture - work on Assignment 3
  

Week 9

• Lecture 25: Usability Testing . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim -Chapter 8
• Lecture 26: Experimental Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not in text
• Lecture 27: Research Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not in text

Week 10

• Lecture 28: Guest Lecture - Moblie UIs
• Lecture 29: Icons . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 11
• Lecture 30: Test Review

Week 11

• Lecture 31: Speech and Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 13
• Lecture 32: Vision and Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 9
• Lecture 33: Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 12

Week 12

• Lecture 34: No Lecture
• Lecture 35: Tactile and Haptic . . . . . . . . . . . . Required Reading: Heim - Chapter 14
  
• Lecture 36: Review (Dr. Warren). . . . . . . . . . . . Related Reading: Survival of the craftiest by Mark Broatch