CS 468/568: Fall 2018: Inclusive Design (Tentative) Schedule

This schedule will grow and change throughout the course, so check back regularly, and be sure to hit REFRESH to make sure you have the most recent version.

• Week 0 (9/21): Introduction: What is inclusive design?
  • Introduction
  • Assignment of temporary teammate (for HW #1 only)


• Week 1 (9/24-...): What are personas, persona lifecycle, how do you design/use them, what do people say about them.
  • Read textbook Chapters 1-2.
  • Look over Appendix B & C with an eye toward HW #1.
  • Monday: Discussion of project possibilities.
  • Monday-Friday: Personas Lifecycle and "Family planning", More on project possibilities, how personas fit into PRICPE
  • No class Wednesday. Dr. Burnett is keynoting at ICSME on gender bias 'bugs' in software.
  • Friday: Team skills inventory activity, Project roles.
  • HW #1 is due Friday 9/28 electronically via TEACH and printed on paper (one per team) by 9:00 am


• Week 2 (10/1-...): Persona Family Planning, and what does exclusion look like for Your population
  • Mon: Family planning and Abby
  • Monday-Friday: User capabilities and exclusion
    • Impairment simulation software
    • Exclusion calculator
    • OSU example: taking down a barrier for visually impaired helps a much broader population
  • No class Wednesday. Dr. Burnett is at IEEE VLHCC talking about ways to do gender-inclusive design and about the GenderMag tool on OSS.
  • Friday: Project Installment #1 is due Friday electronically via TEACH and printed on paper (one per team) by 9:00 am
  • Read textbook Chapter 3 (Family Planning)
  
  
• Week 3 (10/8-...): Persona Family Planning, and what does exclusion look like for Your population (cont.)
  • Mon: User capabilities and exclusion (cont.)
  • Wed: 3 teams explain your populations (@ 10+5 minutes). The teams are: Arya/Austin/Kevin/Bhavya, Melissa/Andrew/Meghan/Susmita, Evan et al.
  • Fri: 3 more teams explain your populations (@ 10+5 minutes). The teams are: Raunak/Kevin/Brijesh, open, open
  • Scanned doc cam material
  • The material comes from the inclusive design toolkit . (See User capabilities: pp 4-6 to 4-9.)
  • Give feedback to teams here. Feedback closes next Friday (see below).


• Week 4 (10/15-...): Your populations (cont.)
  • Mon: 3 more teams explain your populations (@ 10+5 minutes). The teams are: Katherine/Jiaji/Adam/Dominic, Munisha/Anand/Corwin/Jacob, open
  • Fri: 3 more teams explain your populations (@ 10+5 minutes). The teams are: Christopher/Abrar/Griffin/Shannon/Tasnia, Roli/Yihong/Nathan/Alexander open
  • Fri: Project Installment #2 (Family planning) is due electronically via TEACH (one per team) by 5:00 pm
  • Give feedback to teams here. (Feedback closes 12:00 noon Fri)
  • Conception/gestation.
  • Read textbook Chapter 4


• Week 5 (10/22-...): From Research to Personas
  • Conception/gestation (cont.)
  • From affinity diagrams and persona skeletons to Persona Attributes to Concepts/Design Remedy Ideas
  • Why personas work (psychological basis)
  • Review/refresh: Concepts and Prototypes
  • Fri: Project Installment #3 (Conception/gestation) is due hardcopy and electronically via TEACH by class time (9:00 am)


• Week 6 (10/29-...): From Personas to Designs
  • Mon, Wed: Using personas to create inclusive designs: case study with GenderMag. GenderMag site, GenderMag lecture in pptx format, GenderMag lecture in ppt format.
  • Fri: Design gallery #1 (for your Project Installment #4 materials). Here's the form to give more feedback.
  • Fri: Project Installment #4 (Personas & Foundations plus Concepts) is due electronically via TEACH by midnight


• Week 7 (11/5-...): From Personas to Designs (cont.)
  • Mon 11/5: Hands-on: Applying GenderMag-like methods to your own projects (part 1)
  • Wed, 11/7: Midterm exam. "Open note-card": You can bring two 3x5 notecards in with whatever notes written on them that you want. (Both sides, any font).
  • Fri 11/9: Hands-on: Applying GenderMag-like methods to your own projects (part 2)
  • Fri 11/9: Extra credit for Voting due date (9:00 am).


• Week 8 (11/12-...):
  • Mon 11/12: University holiday (Veteran's Day)
  • Wed: Design gallery #2 (for your Project Installment #5 materials). Here's the form to give more feedback.
  • Wed: Project Installment #5 (Concepts and early partial prototype) is due electronically via TEACH by midnight
  • Fri: Go over midterm exams, discuss "dataflow" problem and "divide and conquer" problems.


• Week 9 (11/19-...):
  • Monday: Design gallery #3. Here's the form to give more feedback.
  • Monday: Project Installment #6 (Complete (some parts medium-fi, a snippet or two hi-fi) prototype) is due electronically via TEACH by midnight
  • Wed: Presentations by: Andrew/Susmita/Uma/Melissa/Meghan (low-literate), open. Here's the form to give more feedback.
  • Fri: 11/23: University holiday (Thanksgiving break)


• Week 10 (11/26-...): Final project presentations of the rest of your term projects, and Wrap-Up. Each should be 20 minutes + 5 minutes for QA. Here's the form to give more feedback.
  • Mon: Presentations by: Kevin/Bhavya/Austin/Arya (non-English readers), Katherine/Jiaji/Adam/Dominic (ADHD)
  • Wed: Presentations by: Raunak/Kevin/Brijesh (vision-impaired), Munisha/Anand/Corwin/Jacob (fully blind)
  • Fri: Presentations by: Roli/Alex/Yihong/Nathan (patients), Abrar/Chris/Shannon/Griffin/Tasnia (kids). (Feedback form closes at noon today.)


• Final exam week:
  • Final versions of everything due via TEACH 12/3, midnight

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