{"id":1961,"date":"2022-02-16T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/?page_id=1961"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:32:37","slug":"advanced-methods-in-hci-cs-690a-spring-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/teaching\/advanced-methods-in-hci-cs-690a-spring-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Methods in HCI- CS 690A- Spring 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1961\" class=\"elementor elementor-1961\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-59228ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"59228ce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>*<b>Note that the course dates and lectures will be updated throughout the semester.<\/b>*\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ae139fa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ae139fa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-05d86a4\" data-id=\"05d86a4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1813\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research Journal<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1814\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1814\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Project<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1811\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Overview<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1811\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1811\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><header style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;width: 1040px;color: #141412;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em;, Helvetica, sans-serif\">COMPSCI 690A, 3 Credits, Spring 2022,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em;, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Time: TueThu 10:00am \u2013 11:15am<\/span><\/b><br>\n<\/header>\n<div style=\"width: 1040px;color: #141412;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif\">\n<div style=\"width: 1040px\">\n<p><strong>Instructor<\/strong>:&nbsp;Narges Mahyar<br><strong>Email<\/strong>: nmahyar@cs.umass.edu<br><strong>Office<\/strong>:&nbsp;Room 322, Computer Science Building<br><strong>Office Hours<\/strong>:&nbsp;TBD<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1040px\">\n<p><strong>TA<\/strong>: Alyx Burns<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000\">Description<\/h3>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>This is an advanced course in Human-Computer Interaction. This course will provide a deeper treatment of some topics that are typically found in an undergraduate HCI course. For example, design methodologies, evaluation methodologies (both quantitative and qualitative), human information processing, cognition, and perception. This course will also introduce students to research frontiers in HCI. The course will cover topics of Universal Usability, CSCW, Digital Civics and fundamentals of designing interactive technology for people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Overview<\/strong><br>People are increasingly surrounded by interactive computational technology systems that are integral to their everyday life. However, poorly designed systems are common, and they can lead to negative outcomes such as frustration, lost time, and errors. The role of design is more crucial than ever before for crafting appropriate systems that truly meet people\u2019s needs, abilities, and expectations. This course covers the theories and concepts important for all professionals and researchers that design interactive technology for human use. This course will build common ground across students from a range of backgrounds, so they will have a shared vocabulary and methods to bring into other components of the Designing for People. Designing for People means designing for human experience, abilities, and fallibilities, which requires in-depth engagement of people throughout the design process in order to develop interactive technologies that fit human needs and capabilities. More specifically, the course adopts a human-centered design (HCD) approach and teaches a highly iterative process called design thinking. This process draws heavily on fundamental human-computer interaction (HCI) methods. Students will have a chance to practice and hone their abilities through weekly homework in the context of a project, in-class activities, and discussions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Origins<\/strong><br>This course was originally developed and taught by <strong>Prof. Joanna McGerener<\/strong> and <strong>Dr. Leila Aflattony<\/strong> at&nbsp;University of British Columbia&nbsp; (UBC) as a new graduate course in HCI on the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc544\/home\/\"> Fundamentals of Designing Interactive Computational Technology for People<\/a> (DFP). The course draws on Prof. McGerener&#8217;s many years of teaching HCI courses at UBC and also borrows materials from <strong>Prof.&nbsp;Karon MacLean <\/strong>and<strong> Jessica Dawson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbooks<\/strong><br>Survey and research articles will be the primary text for the course, chosen from a collection of readings. There is no textbook required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisite<\/strong><br>Students are expected to have taken an HCI course prior to taking this course. While there are no other formal prerequisites, the ability to do basic computer programming will be an asset for the prototyping part of the course. Alternate tools that require minimal programming will, however, be possible. Further, there will be some coverage of experimental design and analysis, which relies on some basic statistical knowledge.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000\">University policies and information<\/h4>\n<p><b>Accommodation Statement<\/b><br>The University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to providing an equal educational opportunity for all students. If you have a documented physical, psychological, or learning disability on file with Disability Services (DS), you may be eligible for reasonable academic accommodations to help you succeed in this course. If you have a documented disability that requires an accommodation, please notify me within the first two weeks of the semester so that we may make appropriate arrangements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Honesty Statement<\/strong><br>Since the integrity of the academic enterprise of any institution of higher education requires honesty in scholarship and research, academic honesty is required of all students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Academic dishonesty is prohibited in all programs of the University. Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to: cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, and facilitating dishonesty. Appropriate sanctions may be imposed on any student who has committed an act of academic dishonesty. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. Any person who has reason to believe that a student has committed academic dishonesty should bring such information to the attention of the appropriate course instructor as soon as possible. Instances of academic dishonesty not related to a specific course should be brought to the attention of the appropriate department Head or Chair. Since students are expected to be familiar with this policy and the commonly accepted standards of academic integrity, ignorance of such standards is not normally sufficient evidence of lack of intent (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/dean_students\/codeofconduct\/acadhonesty\/\">http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/dean_students\/codeofconduct\/acadhonesty\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inclusive Statemnet<\/strong><br>In this course, each voice in the classroom has&nbsp;something of value to contribute. Please take care to&nbsp;respect the different experiences, beliefs, and values expressed by the students, faculty, and staff involved in this course. My colleagues and I support UMass\u2019s commitment to diversity, and welcome individuals regardless of age, background, citizenship, disability, sex, education, ethnicity, family status, gender, gender identity, geographical origin, language, military experience, political views, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and work experience (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/about\/inclusivity-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cics.umass.edu\/about\/inclusivity-statement<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1812\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Schedule<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1812\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1812\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 901px\" border=\"1\"><tbody><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 27px;text-align: center\"><strong>Week<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong>Topics and Readings<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong>Lectures<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong>Deliverables<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 10px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 37px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">1<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 10px;text-align: center\">Tues- Jan 25<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 10px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Course Overview &amp; Logistics and History of HCI<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>No Reading<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 10px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XEb8v_lOBWA_KRHnstGpY6xBFyaObUOB\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 1<\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 10px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Jan 27<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Principles of Interaction Design<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Norman, Donald A. <i>The Design of Everyday Things<\/i>. Basic Books, 01\/01\/2013. Web. 31 Aug. 2017. Chapter 1. The psychopathology of everyday things.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1GnMnmpjzbrdixydT-phvhrJeI8IX2h2I\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 2<\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 52px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">2<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Feb 1<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;text-align: left\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #ff6600\">Human-centered Design &amp; HCI<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Norman, Donald A. <i>The Design of Everyday Things<\/i>. Basic Books, 01\/01\/2013. Web. 31 Aug. 2017. Chapter 6. Design Thinking.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1i7uH35Z2TME8Nsw6jgcX72nuhOqhe5Y1\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 3 <\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 25px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 25px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Feb 3<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 25px;text-align: left\"><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Field Studies \u2013 Observations<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., and Sharples, S. (2016) Using mobile phones in pub talk. <em>Proceedings of ACM CSCW \u201916<\/em>, 1649-166.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 25px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1X6g_ApsmJ3d6CjKtqpKBnl8eqAOmXPOS\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 4<\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 25px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 26px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 53px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">3<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 26px;text-align: center\">Tues- Feb 8<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 26px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Field Studies \u2013 Interviews<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Jasim, M., Hoque, E., Sarvghad, A., &amp; Mahyar, N. (2021, June). CommunityPulse: Facilitating community input analysis by surfacing hidden insights, reflections, and priorities. In <i>Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021<\/i> (pp. 846-863).<p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading: <\/strong>Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. 2017. Chapter 8. Interviews and Focus Groups.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 26px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/18C9qnNqYtMiSeGp1tFfoZ5d1Rj0Oh2o6\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 5<\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 26px;text-align: center\"><p style=\"text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Feb 10<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Field Studies \u2013 Surveys\/Questionnaires<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Malin Eiband, Mohamed Khamis, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Heinrich Hussmann, and Florian Alt. 2017. Understanding Shoulder Surfing in the Wild: Stories from Users and Observers. In <em>Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/em> (CHI \u201917). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4254-4265.<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading: <\/strong>Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. 2017. Chapter 5. Surveys.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1x26mbX4WgoHfCkUXfR6zjq98CFwyfziO\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 6<\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">4<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Feb 15<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Personas and Tasks<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading: <\/strong>Salminen, J., Jung, S. G., Chowdhury, S., Seng\u00fcn, S., &amp; Jansen, B. J. (2020, April). Personas and analytics: A comparative user study of efficiency and effectiveness for a user identification task. In <i>Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/i> (pp. 1-13).<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading: <\/strong>About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Chapter 3. Modeling Users: Personas and Goal John Wiley &amp; Sons.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1PD8qN2qFpWzw9UK1R0atnEO6xg_PrObQ\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lecture 7<\/a><\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Feb 17<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong style=\"color: #ff6600;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\">Requirements and Metrics<\/strong><strong style=\"color: #ff6600;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/strong><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Xiao, Z., Zhou, M. X., Liao, Q. V., Mark, G., Chi, C., Chen, W., &amp; Yang, H. (2020). Tell me about yourself: Using an AI-powered chatbot to conduct conversational surveys with open-ended questions. <i>ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)<\/i>, <i>27<\/i>(3), 1-37.<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading: <\/strong>Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. Chapter 10. Task Description, Task Analysis, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 26px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 53px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">5<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 26px;text-align: center\">Tues- Feb 22<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 26px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>No class-Monday Class Schedule<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 26px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 26px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Feb 24<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Milestone 1 Presentation<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>No Reading<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Milestone 1 Report &amp; Presentation<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">6<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Mar 1<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Qualitative Data Analysis &#8211; Affinity Diagrams<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Mahyar, N., Nguyen, D. V., Chan, M., Zheng, J., &amp; Dow, S. P. (2019, June). The civic data deluge: Understanding the challenges of analyzing large-scale community input. In <i>Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference<\/i> (pp. 1171-1181).<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading: <\/strong>Contextual Design: Design for Life. Chapter 6. The Affinity Diagram. Elsevier Inc.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Mar 3<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Qualitative Data Analysis &#8211; Thematic Analysis<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Hoarding and Minimalism: Tendencies in Digital Data Preservation. Proceedings of the CHI 2018. Paper 587, 12 pages. pp. 1-12.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">7<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Mar 8<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Mental Models<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Mental Models by the Nielsen-Norman Group &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/mental-models\/\">https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/mental-models\/<\/a><\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Mar 10<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Conceptual Models<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Johnson, J., &amp; Henderson, A. (2002). Conceptual models: begin by designing what to design. <i>interactions<\/i>, <i>9<\/i>(1), 25-32.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">8<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Mar 15<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong>No Class-Spring Recess<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Mar 17<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><strong>No Class-Spring Recess<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">9<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Mar 22<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Prototyping &#8211; Low Fidelity<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Sturdee, M., &amp; Lindley, J. (2019, November). Sketching &amp; drawing as future inquiry in HCI. In <i>Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019<\/i> (pp. 1-10).<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading:<\/strong> Sketching user experiences: The workbook, Section 4. Snapshots in Time: The Visual Narrative.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Mar 24<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Milestone 2 Presentations<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">No Reading<\/span><\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Milestone 2 Report &amp; Presentation<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">10<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Mar 29<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Prototyping &#8211; Mid and High Fidelity<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Tohidi, M., Buxton, W., Baecker, R., &amp; Sellen, A. (2006, April). Getting the right design and the design right. In <i>Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems<\/i> (pp. 1243-1252).<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Mar 31<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Evaluation &#8211; Usability Testing<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Human-Computer Interaction, Chapter 9. Evaluation techniques (pp. 318-364), Pearson.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">11<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- Apr 5<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Evaluation &#8211; Cognitive Walkthrough<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Mahyar, N., Burke, K. J., Xiang, J., Meng, S., Booth, K. S., Girling, C. L., &amp; Kellett, R. W. (2016, November). Ud co-spaces: A table-centred multi-display environment for public engagement in urban design charrettes. In <i>Proceedings of the 2016 ACM international conference on interactive surfaces and spaces<\/i> (pp. 109-118).<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading:<\/strong> User Interface Inspection Methods, Chapter 4. Cognitive Walkthrough.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- Apr 7<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Evaluation &#8211; Heuristic Evaluation<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;User Interface Inspection Methods, Chapter 1. Heuristic Evaluation. Pages - [1-31]&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:5053,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;5&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:[{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;5&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0}},{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;3&quot;:3},{&quot;1&quot;:1,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;4&quot;:1}]},&quot;6&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:[{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;5&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0}},{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;3&quot;:3},{&quot;1&quot;:1,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;4&quot;:1}]},&quot;7&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:[{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;5&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0}},{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;3&quot;:3},{&quot;1&quot;:1,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;4&quot;:1}]},&quot;8&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:[{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;5&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0}},{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;3&quot;:3},{&quot;1&quot;:1,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;4&quot;:1}]},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">User Interface Inspection Methods, Chapter 1. Heuristic Evaluation.<\/span><\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 54px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">12<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- April 12<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Designing Controlled Experiments<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Burns, A., Xiong, C., Franconeri, S., Cairo, A., &amp; Mahyar, N. (2021). Designing with Pictographs: Envision Topics without Sacrificing Understanding. <i>IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics<\/i>.<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading:<\/strong> Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. 2017. Chapter 3. Experimental Design.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Thurs- April 14<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Evaluation &#8211; Quantitative Analysis (Guest Lecture by Ali Sarvghad)<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong>Reading:<\/strong> TBD<p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Optional Reading:<\/strong> Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. 2017. Chapter 4. Statistical Analysis.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 27px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;height: 82px;text-align: center\" rowspan=\"2\">13<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">Tues- April 19<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;height: 27px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Milestone 3 Presentations<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>No Readings<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 27px;text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 27px;text-align: left\">Milestone 3 Report &amp; Presentation<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 55px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">Thurs- April 21<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;text-align: left;height: 55px\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">TBD<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 55px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;text-align: center;height: 110px\" rowspan=\"2\">14<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">Tues- April 26<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;text-align: left;height: 55px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Visual Design<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> Franconeri, S. L., Padilla, L. M., Shah, P., Zacks, J. M., &amp; Hullman, J. (2021). The science of visual data communication: What works. <i>Psychological Science in the Public Interest<\/i>, <i>22<\/i>(3), 110-161.<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;height: 55px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 55px;text-align: left\">Research Journal<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 55px\"><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">Thurs- April 28<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;text-align: left;height: 55px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Human Abilities<\/strong><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>No Readings<\/p><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 55px;text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 55px\"><td style=\"width: 7.25207%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">15<\/td><td style=\"width: 14.5556%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">Tues- May 3<\/td><td style=\"width: 41.024%;text-align: left;height: 55px\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Final Project Presentations<\/span><br \/><\/strong>No Reading<\/td><td style=\"width: 12.8306%;text-align: center;height: 55px\">\u00a0<\/td><td style=\"width: 24.3377%;height: 55px;text-align: left\">Final Report &amp; Demo<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1813\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research Journal<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1813\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1813\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Researcher journals are an important part of the deliverables in this course.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Instructions on how to post your entries in your researcher journal are found further below.<\/span><\/p><h4 style=\"font-size: 20px;line-height: 28px;font-family: Raleway, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-top: 25px;margin-bottom: 25px;color: #919191\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Journal entry: Reflections on the assigned readings<\/span><\/h4><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Due:<\/b>\u00a0by 8 AM the day that readings are covered in class. This is a strict cutoff. (Note: we reserve the right to change this time within the term)<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students must do the core readings before the classes. By the due date\/time, students must create an entry in\u00a0<b><i>their shared journal<\/i><\/b>\u00a0with a question\/comment about the material being covered that day, one note per required reading. We encourage you to also to have a copy of these questions\/comments with you in class and use them as a springboard for discussion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Your questions\/comments should be thoughtful, and clearly show that you have done the reading and reflected on it. They do not all have to be phrased in the form of a question, a comment is fine. If you are genuinely confused by some aspect of the reading, then it is useful and legitimate to ask for clarification. However, simply asking something that you could trivially look up yourself is not a good question.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The goal of the shared journal is not only for you to reflect on the readings yourself, but also to learn about your classmates reflections on those same readings. For this reason, the journal entries are open to the full class. This will lead to richer in-class discussions.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Each question\/comment should be at most one short to medium length paragraph. Often two or three sentences will suffice. The goal is to have short, crisp questions\/comments. <br \/><\/span><\/p><h4 style=\"font-size: 20px;line-height: 28px;font-family: Raleway, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-top: 25px;margin-bottom: 25px;color: #919191\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Submitting your Researcher Journal entries<\/span><\/h4><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Researcher Journals are found as a module in Pizza. Each reading is set up as a Discussion item with the label that matches the reading number on the course schedule page. For example, to submit your journal entry for the first reading simply \u201cReply\u201d to the discussion topic \u201cReading #1\u201d.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Four important things to note:<\/span><\/p><ol style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The researcher journals are open\/visible to the entire class. Thus, all students in the class as well as the instructors will be able to see your entry (but only grading for their own entries).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">You are should not edit an entry after submission.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">You can optionally reply directly to other students\u2019 entries \u2014 again, your reply will be visible to all.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p>Tab Content<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1814\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Project<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1814\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1814\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Project title:\u00a0<\/b>Designing a Human-centred Interactive Computational Technology<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Description:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Throughout the course, we will explore and apply different methods that are appropriate for designing and evaluating an interactive computational technology that closely meets human needs. Examples of potential technologies are interactive 2D interfaces, interactive 3D devices, wearables, robots, and so on. Your team will choose a topic from the list provided below which will seed your project. You will identify a clear problem to be addressed (or potential design opportunity) by investigating people\u2019s behaviors, activities, and interactions, and will then create a working prototype that meets their needs, which you will evaluate. Following the design thinking process, there are approximately 6 project milestones, which may include a small final design showcase. These will be scheduled approximately every other week and there will be deliverables for each. For approximately half of these milestones, your team will need to be prepared to \u201cpresent\u201d your work during class time in the form of a \u201cdesign crit\u201d for which you will be marked and receive constructive feedback. Meeting the project milestones is crucial in completing the project successfully.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\"><strong>Team formation:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p><p>The first step in the research project is to form a team with 3 other people. There is <i>not<\/i> a lot of time for this, so you will need to move fast. You are free to work with whomever you choose, but you should strive for as multi-disciplinary a team as possible. Your team will choose a project topic listed in the project description. Groups will be set up for each team in Piazza. Once your team is formed, you will need to complete a team contract and submit it to Gradescope. The due dates for these steps are noted in deliverables on the Schedule page.<\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Milestones:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please see course schedule for tentative dates for each milestone. A draft outline of what might be required for each of the milestones is given below. These will be refined and provided to you as you approach each milestone.<\/span><\/p><ol style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Milestone 1: <\/b>I<b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">n this stage, you will craft a meaningful and actionable problem statement or design focus through analyzing of the information gathered about user needs and context. In addition, you will develop a persona (or personas), which is a model of a user that focuses on the individual\u2019s characteristics and goals when using an artifact. The personas should be based on thoughtful analysis of data you\u2019ve collected through research you\u2019ve completed with your participant groups.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Milestone 2: <\/b>You will develop a conceptual design of your potential interactive computational system, considering your participant group requirements. You need to submit a design requirement document with detailed description of a system to be developed. This stage provides source material for building prototypes and innovative solution to the problem. You will also submit a low-fidelity prototype at this stage.<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Milestone 3: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this stage, you will create a high-fidelity working prototype or prototypes (first iteration) of a computational technology according to your concept. The prototype(s) of your concept needs to detail how the concept will be experienced and used. The medium of the mock-up depends on the solution and may show an interface or a physical\/tangible 3D mock-up. In addition, you will devise a method for evaluating your prototype. <br \/><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Final Report:<\/b> You will test your prototype(s) with participants who are representative of the group of people you are designing for and analyze your results. The final report will encompass many of the components from prior milestones in the form of a research paper.<br \/><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Grading (tentative)\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><table style=\"width: 700px;color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><tbody><tr><td><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Milestones 1, 2, &amp; 3 (10% each)<br \/><\/b><\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>30%<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Final Report &amp; Presentation (15% each)<br \/><\/b><\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>30%<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Total:<br \/><\/b><\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>70%<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Submission:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Details provided in individual milestone descriptions.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Topics:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Potential design problems\/opportunities\/situations, which are deliberately vaguely specified:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Waiting time for paying\/ordering food can be long at restaurants.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Texting while walking is dangerous, but people cannot stop.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Train\/metro platforms can be jammed with people. It is frustrating and can be dangerous.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hiking alone in unknown areas can be dangerous. Getting lost is a common problem for solo hikers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Managing simple physical tasks at home such as turning on\/of lights can be challenging for older adults.<\/span><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><i>Need access to older adults<\/i><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Houses can be broken into when no one is at home. Police advise people to make their houses look occupied when they are away.<\/span><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><i>Need access to participants who have homes<\/i><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Babies scream, as they can\u2019t say actual words when they try to get their parents attention. It is challenging for parents to understand their baby\u2019s needs.<\/span><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><i>Need access to participants with babies.<\/i><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Educating children (ages 2-4) can be challenging as they can\u2019t communicate, read and write.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Studying effectively has never been more challenging for university students. The demands on their attention have continued to rise.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Planning some types of events can be clunky (e.g., potlucks where there is flexibility of date, location, and numbers)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Personal safety when walking alone on campus late at night can be a concern.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Services like Craigslist work well for resale, but services that support a loaning economy are scarce.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Planning a trip among friends and family who are not co-located can be a challenge.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Collaborating over files has never been better supported with services such as Google docs, Google Drive, and Dropbox. But these services can make managing files more complex.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">People have become addicted to their phones. Well-being is being compromised.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Children do not play outside as much as they used to, and are therefore not getting the same amount of exercise as they used to.<\/span><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><i>Need access to parents of small children<\/i><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Too much energy is being wasted with lights being left on in homes unnecessarily.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Easy access to digital photography and the low cost of storage has led people to lose track of what they capture.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Services like Yelp provide crowd-sourced reviews for local business, but reliable services to find and review local musicians and bands are practically non-existent.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">With the amount of work graduate students do (courses, TAing, research), they generate a lot of files which can be hard to manage.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The number of photos people save on their phones is huge, they are generated by several apps (Camera, WhatsApp, Snapchat) and for several purposes (personal, reminders, scans). Phones have some capability to help users manage this \u00a0but they don\u2019t really work.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Finding a place to rent can be challenging, especially for students who are often new to a city. There are different web portals and also ads\u00a0spread throughout neighbourhoods. Renters also face stress, potential scams, and may not\u00a0know if the place is being advertised at a fair price.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">MOOC courses\/e-learning has opened the door for all the students to have a good education. But it\u2019s missing the most critical factor of the educational system: student-teacher real-time interaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some people go to the gym regularly and keep it as a hobby while for others, it can be challenging to make a reasonably flexible workout plan and follow it.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mobile phones are collecting and storing more private user data, sometimes with little awareness on the user\u2019s part. This exposes privacy risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some adults consume a number of over-the-counter and prescription medications; a tool that can assist them in tracking the daily consumption and long-term side effects would be beneficial.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">New international students can struggle with important non-academic activities such as banking, transportation, and housing. They would benefit from \u00a0some guidance.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some people spend a lot of time on international flights and can often get bored, fatigued, and stressed. Airport and in-flight experiences could be made more eventful and less stressful.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>*Notes*<\/b><\/span><\/p><ul style=\"color: #919191;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif\"><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">some of these would be difficult to observe in situ<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">some would involve participants who might be more difficult to access<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced Methods in HCI Spring 2022 *Note that the course dates and lectures will be updated throughout the semester.*\u00a0 Overview Schedule Research Journal Project Overview COMPSCI 690A, 3 Credits, Spring 2022,&nbsp;Time: TueThu 10:00am \u2013 11:15am Instructor:&nbsp;Narges MahyarEmail: nmahyar@cs.umass.eduOffice:&nbsp;Room 322, Computer Science BuildingOffice Hours:&nbsp;TBD TA: Alyx Burns Description This is an advanced course in Human-Computer Interaction. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/teaching\/advanced-methods-in-hci-cs-690a-spring-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advanced Methods in HCI- CS 690A- Spring 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":461,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1961\/revisions\/1987"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}