Weekly Course Schedule – Spring 2017

INFOST 691 - 206, 207 (Online)

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Week 1 (January 23 – January 29)



Monday, January 23   (6:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M., GoToMeeting)
Optional Session
Online Office Hours / Lab Session
Every Monday evening, I will be holding Office Hours using the GoToMeeting Platform. Please feel free to drop by to review solutions to recent assignments, to ask a question, to get help with your assignments, to discuss your plans for the final project, or just to say hello. Please use a headset when joining this session. You may join the GoToMeeting session using this link.
Other Resources


Sunday, January 29, @  11:55 P.M.
Weekly Assignments Deadline
Topics
  • Course Introduction
  • Personal Introductions
  • What is Interaction Design (Chapter 1)
  • Understanding and Conceptualizing Interaction (Chapter 2)
Required Readings
  • Course Syllabus
  • ID4e: Chapter 1 (What is Interaction Design)
  • ID4e: Chapter 2 (Understanding and Conceptualizing Interaction)
  • Shackel, B. (2009). Usability–Context, framework, definition, design and evaluation. Interacting with Computers, 21(5-6), 339-346.
  • Grudin, J. (2011). Human‐computer interaction. Annual review of information science and technology, 45(1), 367-430.
Required Recordings
Other Resources
Class Participation Assignments Due (Forum Posts)
  • Introduce Yourself (Required)
    Description: Each student is expected to contribute a 200 -300 word introduction post. Please introduce yourself to the instructor and your classmates. Include information regarding your preferred name, your work (inside or outside the home), and your experience with the subject matter of the class. Most important, tell us what you would like to get out of this class.
    Submit to: Introduce Yourself Forum
  • Article Discussion Forum Post
    Description: During the semester, each student is expected to contribute 3 significant posts (300 -400 word) posts to the Articles Discussion Forum. Each of these posts should summarize the findings of the paper and discuss the implications of those findings for the interaction design practitioner. To qualify, posts must be made by the week closing deadline for the week in which the article has been assigned.
    Submit to: Article Discussion Forum