CS 4324 - User Centered Design Summer Term 2002
6:00PM until 9:20PM Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, June 27 - August 6 in H121

Rich Halstead-Nussloch
is solely responsible for this page.

Text | Class Notices | Objectives | Projects and Assignments | Documents/Handouts |
Class Schedule | Journal | Class Attendance | Graded Work | Policies | Hyperlinks
| Disabilities (ADA) |

• Have a good term!

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Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, each student will be able to:

• Define and discuss major categories, techniques, and methods of designing user interfaces keeping users at the center of the design.
• Define and discuss major concepts of physical ergonomics, cognition, perception, human memory, and information processing that have a bearing on user interface design.
• Plan and design the use of major software engineering techniques leading to user interfaces that users find effective and pleasing.
• Plan, design, and implement a significant development project utilizing user-centered techniques.
• Evaluate effectively the usability of user interfaces and design alternatives.

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Disabilities--Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance

Students with disabilities who believe that they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact the counselor working with disabilities at (770) 528-7226 as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.

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Projects Assignments and Graded Work

• Final Design Project Proposal, 15%
• Final Exam, 25%, In-Class, Open Book, Open Notes--Don't forget your exercise solutions as you will use them and hand them in with your final exam.
• Final Project Presentation and Report , 15%
• Final Design Project , 30%
• Class Participation and Contribution, 15%, Ongoing

Note: All written work must be legible and understandable, preferably typed using a wordprocessor and spell-checker. Deductions will be taken for persistent misspellings, etc.

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Useful Documents and Handouts

• A short tutorial on Task Analysis
• (Word file) Rating form for Heuristic Evaluation
• A short tutorial on Usability in Computing

Note--to achieve the goals of the course, it might be necessary to deviate from the above schedule.

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Journal

Keeping a journal is highly recommended for this course. Include in it descriptions of your readings, your reviews of your readings, tips and techniques for doing research, the results of your research, logs of, e.g., Internet activity, etc.

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Class Attendance

Class participation and contribution will account for a significant portion of your grade. Since one cannot contribute to and participate in the class without attending, attendance is recommended. Regardless of attendance, each student is responsible for keeping up with materials and information from each class period. Since the final exam will use the completed exercises from the book, students need to keep up with those. This means it is up to the student to arrange with another class member, obtaining notes, handouts, etc., from any class meeting, or portion thereof, missed.

NOTE: All students are expected to attend the final presentation session(s) in entirety. Any un-excused absences during this period will result in the loss of a whole letter grade from your final course grade. If you're going to miss that class, let me know ahead of time!!!

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Policies

1. No late submissions for full grade credit except for documented emergencies.
2. All work assigned to be turned in is due at the beginning of the class.
3. Assignments turned in late will be accepted, but at a grade discount. Multiple late assignments will result in additional discount applied to your final course grade.
4. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. At the sole judgement of the instructor, verified cases of academic dishonesty will result in a zero for the assignment and also further penalty in the final grade.

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