Reading Schedule
Updated: March 12, 2018
Week 1
Mon. 3/12 | Introductions + User-Centered Design
- There will be a reading quiz on the following material.
- READ: Our Syllabus
- READ: Design Docs
- READ (14 pages): Excerpt from: Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”
- Read/Watch something else about the Human-Centered Design Process
Tue. 3/13 | Need finding + Task Analysis
- There may be a quiz on this material. This is true for all future readings.
- WATCH (12 minutes): Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway
- WATCH (4 minutes): EXAMPLE: Contextual Inquiry: Workforce Mobility
- WATCH (3 minutes): Insight Through Need-finding
- READ: Needfinding cheat sheet
- READ: Become Your Users
- READ: Task Analysis Tips
- READ: How to Understand Problems by Andy Ko
- READ: How to Define Problems by Andy Ko
- Read/Watch something else about Need finding, Task Analysis, or Contextual Inquiry
Thu. 3/15 | Prototyping + Ideation
- READ: How to be Creative by Andy Ko
- READ: Ideation Overview (don’t answer survey questions)
- READ: How to Prototype by Andy Ko
- READ (17 pages): The anatomy of sketching (Bill Buxton)
- READ (9 minutes): Why you should be prototyping (Netflix)
- Read/Watch something else about prototyping or ideation
Fri. 3/16 | Human Abilities + Visual Design
- DUE: Good/Bad Design
- LOOK OVER: Design For Others Design Sprint
- READ (80+ slides): Human Abilities
- WATCH (7 min): The Universal Arts of Graphic Design
- READ (7 min): How to Make Your Not-So-Great Visual Design Better
- READ (7 minutes): 3 ways to improve your visual design skills
- Read/Watch something else about visual design
Week 2
Mon. 3/19 | Visual Design Project Cont.
- WATCH (10 min): Jennifer Golbeck (TED Talk). The curly fry conundrum: Why social media “likes” say more than you might think
- Familiarize yourself with invision. See Slack for our free account code.
- OPTIONAL: Google I/O 2013 - Cognitive Science and Design
- OPTIONAL: Bad typography has ruined more than just the Oscars
Tue. 3/20 | Visual Design Hack Day
- WATCH (17 minutes): Scott Klemmer: Heuristic Evaluation - Why and How
Thu. 3/22 | Data Visualization
- WATCH (8 min): The Art of Data Visualization
- READ (80 slides): Data Visualization
- READ/WATCH: 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes | Accompanying Talk
- WEBSITE: Five Design Sheet Methodology for Visualization
- OPTIONAL: Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources
Fri. 3/23 | Others Demo Day
Week 3
Mon. 3/26 | Interactive Vis
Tue. 3/27 | User Testing + Hack Day
- READ (22 slides): User Testing
- WATCH: Rocket Surgery Made Easy: Usability Demo (Steve Krug)
Thu. 3/29 | Crowdsourcing + Social Psych
- READ: How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
- READ: HCI and Collective Intelligence (Jeff Bigham, Michael Bernstein, & Eytan Adar)
- REFERENCE: People + Computation Slides – SEE Slack
Fri. 3/30 | Conversational Interfaces
- READ (14 minutes): Technical and social challenges of conversational design
- READ (9 minutes): How to design a robust chatbot interaction
- READ: Conversation Design: Speaking the Same Language (Google)
- READ: HCI for Peace: A Call for Constructive Action
- WATCH: Watch a talk from the HCI for Peace Conference
Week 4
Mon. 4/2 | Understanding Demos
Tue. 4/3 | Chatbot Hack Day
- DUE: Design for Understanding Doc
- Work on chatbots
Thu. 4/5 | 3D User Interfaces + Fun
- WATCH (17 minutes): The Wekinator by Rebecca Fiebrink
- READ: 32.1-2, 32.4-5: 3D User Interfaces
- WATCH (8 min): Bill Buxton on Natural User Interfaces
- READ (7 pages): Make Things Engaging
Fri. 4/6 | Chatbot Hack Day
- READ: 8 Prototypes that Show the Future of HCI
- READ (4 pages): Gesture Interfaces: A Step Backward in Usability
Week 5
Mon. 4/9 | Input Technologies and Techniques
- DUE: Design for Tension Demo
- READ (35 pages): Input Technologies and Techniques (Ken Hinckley and Daniel Wigdor)
Tue. 4/10 | Affective Computing
Start Design for Wellbeing
Reading and Watching Track
- WATCH (~16 minutes): Rafael Calvo: Time for Technologies to Respect our Psychological Needs
- READ (short): We Need Computers with Empathy
- READ (short): Why you want your Drone to have Empathy
- WATCH (~45 minutes): Rosalind Picard: Emotion Technology
- READ (short): Affective Computing for HCI
- For Reference (Optional): Affective Computing by Kristina Höök
Javascript and JQuery (Do enough to know basics)
- Intro to JQuery Codecademy
- Learn JQuery Core
- Look over and understand the code from Design for Wellbeing
Thu. 4/12 | Affectiva Hack Day
Hack on Affectiva!
- WATCH (20 minutes): The Future of Affective Computing
Fri. 4/13 | Wellbeing midpoint Demo Day
Week 6
Mon. 4/16 | Patriots’ Day Holiday
No class. Patriots’ Day.
Tue. 4/17 | Intelligent User Interfaces
- READ (Intro + Principles): Principles of Mixed-Initiative User Interfaces (Eric Horvitz)
- READ (Intro + Usability Principles): Steps to Take Before Intelligent User Interfaces Become Real (Kristina Höök)
Thu. 4/19 | Design for Wellbeing Demo Day
Fri. 4/20 | WPI Project Presentation Day
No class. WPI Project Presentation day.
Week 7
Mon. 4/23 | Virtual Reality (+ some Augmented Reality)
Start Design for Another World
- READ (7 min): Applying human-centered design to emerging technologies (IDEO)
- READ (20 pages): Virtual Reality Introduction by Steven M. LaValle
- READ (7 minutes): Design Practices in Virtual Reality
- READ (short): AR Human Interface guidelines by Apple
SKIM OVER THE FOLLOWING FOR IDEAS!
- Opioids haven’t solved Chronic Pain. Maybe Virtual Reality Can (WIRED)
- ‘After I feel ecstatic and emotional’: Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy
- Can VR Really Make You More Empathetic? (WIRED)
- VRST 2017 Technical Papers Preview
Tue. 4/24 | VR Hack Day
Hack on VR!
Thu. 4/26 | VR Hack Day
Hack on VR!
- READ: Dystopian Virtual Reality is Finally Here (Ian Bogost)
- READ: Virtual Reality Frontiers (Steven M. Lavalle)
Fri. 4/27 | VR Demo Day
Week 8
Mon. 4/30 | Lunch-Hour Demos!
- DUE: Design for Another World Doc
- OPTIONAL!: Bring out our favorite demos for food + a lunch-hour demo event.
Tue (Fri). 5/1 | Where do we go from here?
- Wrap-up: Last Day of the Term.