HCI Seminar 310-89

Day 1 Notes

8/23/99

 

http://www.ils.unc.edu/~march/courses/310_f99/syllabus.html

 

  1. Introductions
  2. Discuss syllabus and course overview
  3. Mail list:  inls310-89@ils.unc.edu; subscribe list name your name in message to listproc@ils.unc.edu
  4. Term Project (handout)

www.ils.unc.edu/~march/courses/310_f99/Term_Project.pdf

  1. Readings:  Handout Shackel; Engelbart, Meister

Readings next week:  Greene et al is in G:\march\310-89fall99\previews&overviews.pdf

OR pdf version

                                    Marchionini (92) handout

                                    Shneiderman et al www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/retrieval/01shneiderman.html

 

6. Design

Design of objects

Light switch discussion

            Task

            Users

            Affordances

            Setting (Aesthetics)

CHI ’96 video Light Switch Exploration

 

Design of interaction (examples ?)

Grocery purchase discussion

            Task (exchange)

            Users (Participants)

            Affordances (protocols)

            Setting

Consider WWW search session

 

  1. ID Research levels (handout)

www.ils.unc.edu/~march/courses/310_f99/ID_research_levels.pdf

  1. One-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?