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Wednesday 1/8/2014,
Class 1. Introduction Business: Discussion leaders for Case Study 1 Assignment: Case Studies 2-4
preferences due by Wednesday, 1/22/2014
Check Sakai access Review course syllabus, requirements, policies in Sakai |
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Monday 1/13/2014, Class 2.
Information Systems, Information Systems Analysis -- what
are they? Preparation: Read Sellen,
A.
& Harper, R. (2002). The future of paper. In Sellen & Harper, The
Myth of the Paperless Office, Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press. Ch.
7, pp. 185-212.
Business:
Discuss the Project.Assignment: Case Study 1 discussion leader comments due COB today. |
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Wednesday 1/15/2014,
Class 3. The Systems Development Life Cycle; Case
Study 1 Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 1, Introduction
Batra, D., Xia, W., VanderMeer, D. & Dutta, K. (2010). Balancing Agile and structured development approaches to successfullly manage large distributed software projects: A case study from the cruise line industry. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 27, Article 21, 379-394. (Sakai) Case Study 1: Jaferian, P., Botta, D., Hawkey, K., & Beznosov, B. (2009). A case study of enterprise identity management system adoption in an insurance organization. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT), 46-55. |
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Monday 1/20/2014, no class, MLK | |
Wednesday 1/22/2014,
Class 4. Models Preparation: Read Hendry,
D.
(2004). Communication functions and the adaptation of
design representations in interdisciplinary teams.
Proceedings of the
2004 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems,
123-132.
Assignment:
Case Studies 2-4 preferences due.Siceloff, B. (2012). Bell Tower roundabout will be scaled back to a single lane. News & Observer, June 5, 2012. |
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Monday 1/27/2014 Class 5.
Problem definition; feasibility study Preparation: Davis,
W.
(1999). The problem statement. In W. Davis
& D. Yen, The Information System
Consultant's Handbook: Systems Analysis and Design.
Boca Raton: CRC Press. Chapter 12, 87-90.
IAssignment:
Assign Problem Definition, due Monday 2/10/2014.Davis, W. (1999). The feasibility study. In W. Davis & D. Yen, The Information System Consultant's Handbook: Systems Analysis and Design. Boca Raton: CRC Press. Chapter 13, 91-96. |
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Wednesday 1/29/2014, Class 6.
Contextual inquiry; information gathering Preparation: Read Swan,
L.,
Taylor,
A., & Harper, R. (2008). Making place for clutter
and other ideas of home. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human
Interaction, 15(2), Article 9.
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 2, Gathering Customer Data & Ch. 3, Principles of contextual inquiry. |
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Monday 2/3/2014, Class 7.
CI; InfGath, cont. Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 4, Contextual inquiry in practice.
Gellatly, A., Hansen, C., Highstrom, M & Weiss, J. (2010). Journey: General Motors' move to incorporate contextual design into its next generation of automotive HMI designs. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 156-161. |
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Wednesday 2/5/2014, Class 8.
Project management Preparation: Read Armour,
P.
(2002). Ten unmyths of project estimation. Communications of the ACM,
45(11), 15-18.
Project Management Institute Browse the website, especially "About Us" and "Certification" pages. |
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Monday 2/10/2014, Class 9. Scenarios;
personas Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 5, A language of work.
IAssignment:
Carrol, J. (2000). Five reasons for scenario-based design. Interacting with Computers, 13(1), 43-60. Holtzblatt , K., Wendell, J. & Wood, S. (2005). Rapid Contextual Design. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Ch. 9, Using Contextual Data to Write Personas, 181-191. Problem Definition due today.
Submit problem preferences
by Tuesday,
2/11/2014, 3:30 p.m.; review candidate
problems.
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Wednesday 2/12/2014, Class 10.
Project/Team organization (SNOW DAY) Preparation: Read Burdman,
J.
(1999). Communication issues. In Collaborative Web
Assignment:
Assign Information Gathering Plans, due Wednesday,
2/26/2014.Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 75-87. Mark, G. (1998). Building virtual teams: Perspectives on communication, flexibility and trust. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 19(3), 38-41. (Sakai) |
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Monday
2/17/2014, Class 11. Project/Team organization Preparation: Read Burdman,
J.
(1999). Communication issues. In Collaborative Web
Assignment:
Assign Information Gathering Plans, due Wednesday,
2/26/2014.Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 75-87. Mark, G. (1998). Building virtual teams: Perspectives on communication, flexibility and trust. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 19(3), 38-41. (Sakai) |
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Wednesday 2/19/2014, Class
12. Use cases Preparation: Read [optional]Miles
&
Hamilton, Ch. 2, Modeling requirements: Use cases
Pilone & Pitman, Ch. 7, Use case diagrams. Gottesdiener, E. (2002). Top ten ways project teams misuse use cases -- and how to correct them: Part I: Content and style issues The Rational Edge, June 2002. [Explorer may work better than Firefox] Gottesdiener, E. (2002). Top ten ways project teams misuse use cases -- and how to correct them: Part II: Eliciting and modeling use cases The Rational Edge, July 2002. [ Explorer may work better than Firefox] |
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Monday 2/24/2014, Class 13. Artifact models;
flow charts Preparation: Read |
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Wednesday 2/26/2014, Class 14. Activity models Preparation: Read Miles
&
Hamilton, Ch. 3, Modeling System Workflows: Activity
Diagrams.
Assignment:
Assign Work Models, due Monday 3/17/2014.Pilone & Pitman, Ch. 9, Activity diagrams. Bell, D. (2003). UML Basics Part II: The activity diagram. The Rational Edge, September 2003. [optional] |
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Monday 3/3/2014, Class 15. Activity models,
continued. Assignment: Information Gathering Plans due today. |
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Sequence
model; decision models (SNOW DAY) Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 6, Work models: The sequence model, pp. 96-101.
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Wednesday 3/5/2014, Class 16.
Flow model Preparation: Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 6, Work models: The flow model, pp. 89-96
Assignment:
Case Study 2 discussion leader comments due COB today. |
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Monday
3/10/2014, No Class, Spring Break |
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Wednesday
3/12/2014, No Class, Spring Break |
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Monday 3/17/2014, Class 17. Case
Study
2; Interpretation Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 7, The interpretation session.
Assignment: Work
Models due
today.Case Study 2: Swarm, D, Vincent, K. & Gordon, L. (2013). A case study for combining technologies for the delivery of information literacy and community to students at remote locations using live synchronous video-conferencing. Journal of Web Librarianship, 7, 255-230. (Sakai) |
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Wednesday, 3/19/2014, Class
18. Physical models, cultural models Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 6, Work models: The physical model, pp. 115-123.
Assignment:
Project Draft Models 1 due today.Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 6, Work models: The cultural model, pp. 107-115. Monk, A. & Howard, S. (1998).The rich picture: a tool for reasoning about work context. interactions, 5(2), 21-30. |
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Monday 3/24/2014, Class 19. Semantic
Modeling; entity-relationship models Preparation: Read Elmasri, R. & Navathe,
S. (2007). Ch. 7, Data modeling using the
entity-relationship (ER) model, sections 7.1-7.4. In Fundamentals of Database,
6th edition. Addison Wesley. (Note: Ch. 3.1-3.4
in earlier editions)
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Wednesday, 3/26/2014, Class
20. ER models, cont. Preparation: Practice ER practice exercises in
Sakai
In Class:Schedule project
presentations
Assignment:
Assign ER Model, due
Monday 11/11/2014.
Case Study 3 discussion leader comments due COB today. |
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Monday 3/31/2014, Class 21.
Data dictionary; CRUD; Case Study 3 Preparation: Read Case Study 3: Laster, S., Stitz,
T. & Bove, F. (2011). Transitioning from
marketing-oriented design to user-oriented design: A
case study. Journal
of Web Librarianship, 5, 299-321. (Sakai)
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Wednesday
4/2/2014, Class 22. Card sorting; web models;
Consolidation Preparation: Read Rosenfeld,
L.
& Morville, P. (2006). Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web.
O'Reilly. Ch. 10.7.2, Card sorting and Ch. 12.1 - 12.4,
Design and Documentation
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 9, Creating one view of the customer. Read pp. 151-163. Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 11, Work redesign. "Directed skimming": please read all figures, captions, and hints. |
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Monday 4/7/2014, Class 23. Assignment: ER Model due today. | |
Wednesday 4/9/2014, Class 24.
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Monday 4/14/2014, Class 25.
User Environment model; Accessibility Preparation: Read Beyer & Holtzblatt,
Ch. 15, The User Environment Design.
Loiacono, E. (2004). Cyberaccess: Web accessibility and corporate America. Communications of the ACM, 47(12), 82-87. Loiacono, E., Romano, N. & McCoy, S. (2009) The state of corporate website accessibility. Communications of the ACM, 52(9), 128-132. Read about the Federal Government's Section 508. I recommend: 508 Law; Summary of 508 Standards; Accessability Tools and Support; FAQs Look at W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Overview |
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Wednesday, 4/16/2014, Class
26. Accessibility,
continued. Risk and Change Preparation: Read Lorenzi, N,. &
Riley, R. (2000). Managing Change: An Overview.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association, 7, 116-124. (Sakai)
Sicotte, C. et al. (2006). A risk assessment of two interorganizational clinical information systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13, 557-566. (Sakai) |
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Monday 4/21/2014, Class 27.
Design ethics; Case Study 4 Preparation: Read Friedman,
B.
(1996). Value-sensitive design. interactions
3(6), 17-23.
Shilton, K. (2010). Technology development with an agenda: Interventions to emphasize values in design. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting. (Sakai) Case Study 4: Guillemette, M., Fontaine, I.,
Caron, C. (2009). A hybrid tracking system of human
resources: A case study in a Canadian university.
Communications of the Association for Information
Systems, 24(1), Article 15.
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Wednesday 4/23/2014, Class
28. Final Presentations: 1. Lifetime Library 2. AV Resource management 3. Public Health Internships Registry |
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Friday, 5/2/2014. Project Specifications and Team Evaluations due no later than 4:00 p.m. |