[All readings are from the course text unless otherwise indicated]
| Day/Date | Reading | Lecture or Discussion Topic
| T 3/31
| Chapter 1
| Introduction to human factors issues; | formulation of guidelines H 4/2
| Chapters 24, 3.1
| No class
| F 4/3
| Kiger paper (menu organization)
| No class
| F 4/3
| Asst. 1 due at midnight
| Deriving design guidelines
| T 4/7
| Chapter 4
| Discussion of Asst. 1; Color theory I
| H 4/9
| Chapter 17
| Color theory II
| F 4/10
| Kieras/Bovair paper (conceptual models)
| User-centered design I
| T 4/14
| Chapters 5, 6.2
| "How We Did It": Understanding user requirements
(Cottel); accommodating user error
| H 4/16
| Chapters 7-7.3, 8-8.2
| No class
| F 4/17
| Lewis/Norman paper (errors)
| No class
| F 4/17
| Asst. 2 due at midnight
| Applying color, font, and menu guidelines
| T 4/21
| Chapters 13.7, 15-15.2
| Discussion of Kieras/Bovair and Lewis/Norman papers;
accommodating user error
| H 4/23
| Chapters 29, 31
| No class
| F 4/24
| Brooks paper (empirical studies)
| Accommodating user error
| T 4/28
| Chapter 20
| "How We Did It": Empirical studies (Burnett)
| T 4/28
| Asst. 3 due at midnight
| Online documentation
| H 4/30
| no reading assignment
| No class
| F 5/1
| Jeffries paper
| Exam 1 (in class)
| T 5/5
| Chapter 27
| No class
| NOTE: Thursday class canceled due to Newsome's accident
| H 5/7
| Chapter 32
| [would have been:
"How We Did It": Participatory design (Newsome/Hanus)]
| F 5/8
| Fisk paper
| Icons and symbology I
| F 5/8
| Asst. 4 due at midnight
| User experiment design
| T 5/12
| Chapter 5 (review)
| Discussion of Brooks and Jeffries papers
Icons and symbology II
| H 5/14
| Chapter 30
| No class
| F 5/15
| Nielsen paper
| User-Centered Design II
| T 5/19
| Chapter 33
| Discussion of Fisk paper; case study of user-
centered design
| T 5/19
| Asst. 5 due at midnight
| Icon design
| H 5/21
| Chapter 34
| "How We Did It": Usability testing (Browne); discussion
of Neilsen paper
| F 5/22
| Simonsen paper
| No class
| T 5/26
| review Chapters 20 and 30.4
| Task structure analysis and survey design
| H 5/28
| no reading assignment
| Discussion of Simonsen paper; case studies of usability
testing
| F 5/29
| no reading assignment
| No class
| S 5/30
| Saturday morning
| Take-home final available on Web
| M 6/1
| Asst. 6 due at midnight
| Interface for multiple user levels
| 6/2-6/5
| no reading assignment
| (work on take-home final)
| F 6/5
| Due at midnight
| Take-home final (in HTML)
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