CSCI 4260/8266: User Interface Design and Development
Spring 2010
| Meeting time: | TR 4:00-5:15 |
| Classroom: | PKI 335 |
| Instructor: | Dr. Harvey Siy |
| Office: | PKI 281B |
| Phone: | (402)554-2834 |
| Office Hours: | By appointment (call or email in advance) |
| Email: | hsiy at unomaha dot edu |
| Textbooks: | The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, Basic Books, 2002 |
| About Face 3.0 by Alan Cooper, Wiley, 2007 |
| Building Interactive Systems by Dan Olsen, Cengage Learning, 2010 |
Description
This course focuses on engineering and scientific approaches to user interface design and evaluation.
Supplementary Material
Supplementary material may be drawn from the following and will be provided as handouts:
- User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective by Soren Lauesen, Addison Wesley, 2005.
- Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th edition) by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, Addison Wesley, 2004.
- Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts, Technologies by David Benyon, Phil Turner and Susan Turner, Addison Wesley, 2005.
- Paper Prototyping by Carol Snyder, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
- The Elements of User Interface Design by Theo Mandel, Wiley & Sons, 1997.
- Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin, Wiley, 1994.
- Cost-Justifying Usability (2nd edition) by Randolph Bias and Deborah Mayhew, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
Learning Objectives
Students who complete this course should have knowledge of process, methods, tools used in user interface development and usability testing.
Topics covered
- Introduction to usability concepts
- Review of human-computer interaction
- User-centered design
- UI implementation issues
- Usability testing
Prerequisites
Required:
1) Software engineering background
2) Proficiency in web development or Java or C# programming.
Recommended:
1) Human-Computer Interaction (CSCI 4250/8256).
2) Prior experience with GUI programming.
Lectures
(See BlackBoard for current list.)
Evaluation
Students taking the class as CSCI4260 will be evaluated as follows:
| Homeworks: | 25% |
| Projects: | 40% |
| Exams (midterm and final): | 30% |
| Class participation: | 5% |
Students taking the class as CSCI8266 will be evaluated as follows:
| Homeworks: | 20% |
| Projects: | 35% |
| Exams (midterm and final): | 25% |
| Class participation: | 5% |
| Term paper: | 15% |
Projects
TBD.
Graduate Student Research Paper
Students taking the class as CSCI8266 will also write a paper on an advanced topic in a user interface research area. Each student must also make a 20-minute presentation on their paper near the end of the semester.
Guidelines for assessing class participation
| Grade | Description |
|---|
| 5 | Regularly makes helpful, relevant contributions to lecture discussions.
Offers observations that challenges classmates to think about the material in new ways. |
| 4 | Attends regularly and occasionally makes helpful, relevant contributions to lecture discussions. |
| 3 | Attends regularly and actively pays attention to discussion. |
| 2 | Attends regularly but does not pay attention to discussion. |
| 1 | Does not attend regularly. |
| 0 | Misses most classes. |
(Adapted from http://web.hamline.edu/personal/skellert/cpgrade.htm.)
Policy on late homeworks
Late homeworks will get a 20% deduction per day, for each day past the due date.
For online submissions, we will follow the time stamp as reported by Blackboard. For example, if the due date is Aug, 24, a submission on Aug. 25 12:01am will get a 20% deduction.
Paper submissions must be handed directly to me on the day it is due.
Academic Integrity
Cheating will not be tolerated for project assignments, exams and other assignments. Consult the UNO Student Policies and Department of Computer Science Policies and Procedures for formal policies about cheating and plagiarism.