CS419/519

Class: CS 419/CS519 Special Topics in Human Computer Interaction
Instructor: Dr. Carlos Jensen (cjensen @ eecs)
Location/Time KEC1001 TR1230-1350

Office Hours: Tue 2pm-4pm, Thu 10:30am-12 noon

TA’s: Marie-Anne midy (midym @ onid), Chandan Sarkar (sarkar @ eecs)

This class is aimed at those of you who already have some knowledge and understanding of HCI, and want a chance to explore more about some particular topic/problem you are working on (HCI related), or wished you'd had some opportunity/excuse to learn more about.

Building on a basic understanding and appreciation for usability and Human Computer Interaction, this class invites students to further explore the state of the art in sub-areas of HCI which is relevant to them. As part of this class we will identify a set of sub-areas of HCI which have either seen significant developments in recent years, and/or which are of greatest interest to those taking the class. Rather than use a fixed textbook, we will rely on recent conference proceedings and journal publications.

Format:
The class will center around the exploration of a handful of class selected topics in HCI (subject to instructor approval). The class will require a lot of reading on your part, but on topics which you have selected, and which should be of interest to you. You will need to prepare a brief proposal, prepare a annotated bibliography of the topic, do an in-class presentation of the topic, and prepare a summary paper in stead of a final.

Prerequisites:
This class is intended for graduate students currently doing research in the area of HCI or related fields, have previously taken either an undergraduate or graduate class in basic usability/HCI, or undergraduates who have taken CS352 or equivalent.

Schedule

10/3 Topic discussion, HCI Overview, Publication/conference overview, CHI Student design competition, peer review, volunteering

10/5 Reading Research papers

10/10 Proposals due, 5 minute presentation/discussion

10/12 Marie-Anne Midy: HCI field-work; evaluating the Commentator Information System, Chandan Sarkar: Privacy & the UI; Yunrim Park: Usability and Open Source.

10/17 Presentation Skills, 5 min presentations (cont)

10/31 Annotated Bibliography due (Example) (Optional: Eric Betts Bibtex template)

11/23 Thanksgiving Break

11/31 Final report due, debriefing, evaluation

Final report format (no template):

- 15-22 pages, double spaced, not including bibliography or cover sheet

o 12 point times new roman or equivalent, default margins.

- Cover sheet with your name, topic, and date of in-class presentation

- 1-2 page executive summary/abstract

- ~1 page scoping/defining your research area/question

- 1-2 page discussion/future work section, but grounded in rest of paper

- Body of paper to be a review of the important sub-areas of research in your chosen area, the major challenges being worked on, the major achievements/milestones, research methods/paradigms etc.

IMPORTANT!: Reading assignment due before class, session before your presentation, presentation due immediately after your presentation

Presentation Topics

Date Student Name Topic Reading

10/19 Scott Whitacre Collaborative filtering http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/tags/tags.pdf

Jared Kaplan Collaboration/Groupware http://0-doi.acm.org.oasis.oregonstate.edu/10.1145/1011870.1011889

10/24 Dan Di Spaltro: Social Networks (visualization) http://0-doi.acm.org.oasis.oregonstate.edu/10.1145/1124772.1124850

Glenn Sandoval: Social Networks http://0-portal.acm.org.oasis.oregonstate.edu/citation.cfm?doid=1150412

10/26 Yunrim Park: OSS (colab/participation) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=776867&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=4039802&CFTOKEN=59226308

Scott King: OSS (end user) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1385644

10/31 Gavin Johnson: Adaptive UI http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/langley99user.html

Philip Gerrard Novel UI http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=275627&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=11111111&CFTOKEN=2222222&ret=1#Fulltext

11/2 Jon Dodge: Games usability (bib) http://0-doi.acm.org.oasis.oregonstate.edu/10.1145/985921.986102