Term: Fall 2008.5
Class Times:

Section 1: MWF 09:40 – 10:30 AM in WEB 1248

Section 2: MWF 10:45 – 11:35 AM in WEB 1248

Instructor: Rich Riesenfeld  rfr@cs.utah.edu
Office Hours: After class or by appointment.

TA: Kathlea Quebbeman  quebbeka@cs.utah.edu
Office Hours: By appointment.

Questions should be sent to teach-cs5540@cs.utah.edu and they will be sent to both the instructor and the class TA.
This is recommended as it doubles the chance that you will get a quick response.

Mailing list:  cs5540@cs.utah.edu

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2. Using the following format:

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A summary of the messages sent to the mailing list can be found in the mail archives

Textbooks:

Required:
Design of Everyday Things.
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books (Perseus), 2002.

Optional:
Designing the User Interface : Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4th Ed.
Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Addison-Wesley, 2004.

Grading Policy:

Grading will be based on project evaluations and class participation.  Attendance is required. While concept reinforcement through beneficial student discussions and exchanges is encouraged, the submitted work is ultimately expected to be performed independently by each student enrolled in the course.  There will be no class exams.

Note:

The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for people with disabilities. If you will need accommodatioons in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability Services, 162 Olpin Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the instructor to make arrangements for accomodations.

All written information in this course can be made available in alternative format with prior notification to the Center for Disability Services.

To submit your assignment, on the cs side use the command handin cs5540 directory-name followed by your files. To find out exising directories, type only handin cs5540 . If for some reason the handin directories are not set up properly, please email teach-cs5540@cs.utah.edu.

Books

• Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A. S. Buxton and Saul Greenberg, Readings in Human-Computer Interaction:  Toward the Year 2000, 2nd Ed, Morgan Kaufmann, (1995) (1-55860-246-1)


• Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Aslum, SAMS (1999) (0-672-31649-8)


• Alan Cooper & Robert M. Reimann,  About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design, John Wiley, 2nd Ed (2003) (0-764-52641-3)


• Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd, Russell Beale, Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed, Addison-Wesley (1995) (0-13-239864-8)


• JoAnn T. Hackos Janice C. Redish, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, 3rd Ed,  John Wiley (1998).  (0-471-17831-4)


• Jeff  Johnson, GUI Bloopers - Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers, Academic Press (2000)   (1-55860-582-7)


• William M. Newman and Michael G. Lamming, Interactive System Design, Addison-Wesley (1995) (0-201-63162-8)


• Jakob Nielsen,  Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, New Riders, 1st Ed (Dec 1999) (1-562-05810-X)


• Jenny Preece - Yvoone Rogers, Helen Sharp, David Benyon, Simon Holland and Tom Carey, Human-Computer Interaction, Addison-Wesley (1994)  (0-201-62769-8)

Websites

• Interface Hall of Shame http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/shame.htm


• Bad Designs (Examples) www.baddesigns.com/examples.html


• A Female Sensibility   Newsweek International (26 Sep 2005)


• Graphical User Interface Wikipedia

Papers

• Edward Ross, Intelligent User Interfaces: Survey and Research Directions (March 2000) <.pdf>


• Charles C. Mann, Technology Review, Why Software is So Bad, (July/August 2002) <.pdf>