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| Course: | ADVANCED COMPUTER HUMAN INTERFACE (CS 686) |
| Instructor: | Marcus Brown |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 8 |
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| Description: | Topics in human computer interface, including graphics user interfaces, computer supported cooperative work, different interface styles, UIMS, on-line documentation and hypermedia. Software user interface design philosophy and evaluation methods. |
| Course: | SOFTWARE USER INTERFACE DESIGN (CS 407/507) |
| Instructor: | Marcus Brown |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 3 |
| Enrollment: | 30 |
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| Description: | Basic concepts of the human-computer interface, including human diversity, user mental models, menus, command languages, documentation, error messages, anthropomorphisms and software psychology. |
| Course: | HUMAN ISSUES IN COMPUTING (CS 665) |
| Instructor: | Teasley or Leventhal |
| Frequency: | Every other year |
| Times_Taught: | 4 |
| Enrollment: | 20 |
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| Description: | The course typically covers the design, evaluation and software engineering of user interfaces, hypertext, and multimedia; a brief introduction to behavioral methodology; and diversity in UI design (including handicap computing). |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES (COMP262/731) |
| Instructor: | Michael Rees |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Times_Taught: | 6 |
| Enrollment: | 25 |
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| Description: | This course covers the principles of task analysis, user interface design, implementation and usability. The human information processing limits and the characteristics of input and output devices are also covered. |
| Course: | HCI AND GRAPHICS (CS502) |
| Instructor: | Keith Goss, Bob Hopgood |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 10 |
| Enrollment: | 25 |
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| Description: | This course is oriented towards the detail of developing computer graphics representations. TRhe HCI component looks at principles of GUI and screen design. |
| Course: | PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (CS504) |
| Instructor: | Peter Thomas, Jonas Lowgren (Linkoping University) |
| Frequency: | Occasional |
| Times_Taught: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 25 |
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| Description: | This course covers the design of tools for managing personal information. It is an intensive 5-day course run with the support of the British Council and taught in collaboration between UK and Swedish institutions. The HCI element in this course concerns the uses to which personal information management tools can be put and how such tools can be designed. |
| Course: | INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS (CS 556) |
| Instructor: | Dan Olsen |
| Frequency: | Once per year |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 15 |
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| Description: | This course covers the basic algorithms of user interface management systems and other software approaches to user interface development. |
| Course: | THE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE (CPSC 481) |
| Instructor: | Saul Greenberg |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | Over a decade! |
| Enrollment: | 50-80 students |
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| Description: | This popular course covers: the basic facts of human mental and perceptual performance in the human-computer context; interface design for different styles of human-computer communication; methodologies of evaluating interfaces; and experiences with building interfaces with advanced toolkits. |
| Course: | TECHNOLOGY OF OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CPSC 547) |
| Instructor: | Mildred Shaw |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 7 |
| Enrollment: | 30-50 |
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| Description: | This course introduces advanced topics on office information and knowledge-based systems. |
| Course: | RESEARCH METHODS IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (CPSC 681) |
| Instructor: | Saul Greenberg |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | Over a decade! |
| Enrollment: | 5-10 |
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| Description: | This course prepares students to do research in human computer interaction. It describes the theory, methodology, and practise of human-computer interaction. Projects include: defining and exploring an HCI problem through controlled experimentation; and researching an HCI topic of the student's choice. |
| Course: | SYSTEMS ANALYSIS G2 (0556) |
| Instructor: | Penny Collings |
| Frequency: | once per year, starting August, runs of one semester |
| Times_Taught: | 10 |
| Enrollment: | approx. 80 |
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| Description: | The course addresses issues of user interface design and socio-technical design and has extensive role-playing of users. |
| Course: | ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTING (HONOURS UNIT - HCI AND MULTIMEDIA) (3365) |
| Instructor: | Penny Collings, Jan Newmarch |
| Frequency: | once a year |
| Times_Taught: | 2 |
| Enrollment: | 8 |
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| Description: | The course aims to explore fundamental topics in HCI and multimedia and reflects the current interests of students and staff. |
| Course: | ISSUES IN THE DESIGN OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES M (new in 1996) |
| Instructor: | Terry Webb, Jan Newmarch |
| Frequency: | once per year, runs for one semester |
| Times_Taught: | new in 1996, as part of Masters by Coursework |
| Enrollment: | approx. 10 expected |
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| Description: | This unit will provide an awareness of the issues which underlie emerging interface technologies. It will examine the design and usage of hypertext, multimedia and data visualisation (desktop virtual reality). |
| Course: | USABILITY TESTING AND THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN PROCESS M (new in 1995) |
| Instructor: | Penny Collings, Terry Webb |
| Frequency: | once per year, runs for one semester |
| Times_Taught: | trial version, 3 times |
| Enrollment: | approx. 10 expected |
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| Description: | This unit provides a context - socio-technical systems design - for considering the process of information systems design and the opportunity to evaluate human-computer interfaces as part of this process. Evaluation procedures will be systematically employed to ensure a high degree of usability in the user interface for computer-based systems. |
| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY M (new in 1995) |
| Instructor: | Terry Webb |
| Frequency: | once per year, runs for one semester |
| Times_Taught: | new in 1995 |
| Enrollment: | approx. 6 expected |
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| Description: | This unit will provide the rationale for decision making in the design of IT systems. The framework provided will be one that centres on a basic corpus of knowledge of human cognition and physical attributes and the application of these to human-computer interface design. |
| Course: | HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (15-499A) |
| Instructor: | Bonnie E. John |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Times_Taught: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 27 |
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| Description: | Similar to ACM SIGCHI Curriculum Report course called CS2 (advanced Undergrad, Masters and Ph.D.) |
| Course: | MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION OF USER INTERFACES (15-821) |
| Instructor: | Roy A. Maxion |
| Frequency: | new |
| Times_Taught: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 12 |
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| Description: | This graduate course undertakes exploration of interface measurement and evaluation issues from the perspective of dependable, critical systems in which it is essential that a user interface, along with the rest of a system, be available and reliable, as well as quick and accurate to use. The laboratory aspect develops measurement and analysis skills for students wishing to evaluate their own systems critically or to initiate research in the field. |
| Course: | VISUAL INTERFACE DESIGN (51.458) |
| Instructor: | Daniel Boyarski |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 4 |
| Enrollment: | 12 - 16 |
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| Description: | The organization and display of information in the context of an interactive program is the focus of the course. Students from different disciplines work in teams through the semester. Issues of human-centered design, evaluation, and design by iteration are emphasized, as well as teamwork and visual/verbal presentation techniques. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN AND EVALUATION (CSCI6838) |
| Instructor: | Lewis |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 50 |
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| Description: | Includes practicum on software user interface design and implementation, survey of research perspectives, survey of technology and application topics of current interest. |
| Course: | KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (CSCI6582) |
| Instructor: | Fischer |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 12 |
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| Description: | Covers current topics in human-computer communication, such as knowledge-based design environments, critic systems, mixed-initiative dialogs, learning on demand. |
| Course: | COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CS W4160) |
| Instructor: | Steven Feiner |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 34 |
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| Description: | An intensive introduction to computer graphics. Graphics hardware, design of graphics packages, interaction techniques, geometric transformations, 3D viewing and projections, raster scan conversion algorithms, image synthesis, visible surface determination, lighting and shading, representation of 3D shapes, object modeling and hierarchy, color and animation. Emphasis is on implementation of important graphics algorithms. |
| Course: | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (CS W4705) |
| Instructor: | Kathleen McKeown |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 15 |
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| Description: | This course introduces students to natural language processing, providing an overview of the different components required to build a system that can interact with the user in English or any other natural language. We will study how information about grammar, about word meaning, and about context can influence the interpretation of a sentence. We will look at different recent applications that use natural language, including spoken language systems (systems that interact via spoken input and output), multimedia systems (systems that combine language with graphics and other user interface devices), data extraction systems (systems that read long newspaper articles searching for and extracting specific facts), and machine translation systems (systems that translate texts from one language to another). |
| Course: | PROJECTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CS W4901, CSW 6901) |
| Instructor: | Steven Feiner, Kathleen McKeown |
| Frequency: | Each semester |
| Times_Taught: | Every semester |
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| Description: | Individual and group research projects in computer graphics and user interfaces, natural language processing, and multimedia. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN (CS E6998) |
| Instructor: | Steven Feiner |
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| Description: | An introduction to issues in the design of human-computer interfaces. Emphasis is on the design of software for high-resolution bit-mapped workstations. We survey the basic interaction devices available and the techniques that have been developed for (or have given rise to) them, and study several important paradigms for how these techniques can be woven into a coherent dialogue. This provides a framework within which we analyze existing user interfaces and design new ones. |
| Course: | DESIGN OF INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS (ENTWURF INTERAKTIONSFAEHIGER PROGRAMME) (n.a.) |
| Instructor: | Hans-Juergen Hoffmann |
| Frequency: | twice a year with different topics |
| Times_Taught: | about 20 |
| Enrollment: | 10 |
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| Description: | Topics covered in the course go from specification techniques (state transition, specification languages, event specification, rule-based, constraints, by demonstration ...), data and program visualisation, program animation, design guidelines, use of UIDS and UIMS, eventually to human factors depending on the emphasis given. |
| Course: | DESIGN OF INTERACTIVE MAN-COMPUTER-INTERFACES (ENTWURF INTERAKTIVER MENSCH-RECHNER-SCHNITTSTELLEN) (n.a.) |
| Instructor: | Hans-Juergen Hoffmann + Jens Wandmacher |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Times_Taught: | 4 |
| Enrollment: | 25 |
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| Description: | It is an interdisciplinary seminar with emphasis on actual topics in psychology related to HCI and on models, architectures, and designs for HCI considered from the viewpoint of computer science. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN (CSC 437) |
| Instructor: | Andrew Sears, Rosalee Nerheim-Wolfe, Helmut Epp |
| Frequency: | Three times per year |
| Times_Taught: | 6 |
| Enrollment: | 30 |
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| Description: | This course introduces the student to the issues involved in designing user interfaces and the process of designing the user interface, from task analysis to implementation. Students use a UIMS to develop a prototype user interface for a problem they identify. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACE EVALUATION (CSC 537) |
| Instructor: | Andrew Sears |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 15 |
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| Description: | This courses focuses on the evaluation of user interfaces, including heuristic evaluations, automated evaluations, formal experimentation, usability testing, and cognitive walkthroughs. Students develop a prototype user interface and use one or more of the techniques to evaluate it. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACES FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (Info.609) |
| Instructor: | Margaret Christensen |
| Frequency: | once or twice per year |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 45 this year |
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| Description: | Students learn to read, critique, apply, and produce original research in the field of human computer interaction. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (L103) |
| Instructor: | Margaret Christensen, Karen Strong |
| Frequency: | twice per year |
| Times_Taught: | 8 (by Christensen) |
| Enrollment: | 30 |
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| Description: | Freshmen learn survival skills in the design and implementation of user interfaces. Principles discussed in lecture, are implemented in laboratory sessions, and cumulatively lead to each student's completion of a prototype information system in HyperCard. |
| Course: | PSYCHOLOGY OF INTERFACE DESIGN (PSYCH 612) |
| Instructor: | Tom Hewett |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 6 |
| Enrollment: | 15-20 |
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| Description: | The course explores cognitive factors involved in the design of interfaces for human use. In addition, the course typically addresses the role of iterative evaluation in the design and re-design of interfaces. |
| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (CS 4753) |
| Instructor: | Badre, Hudson |
| Frequency: | 3 times a year |
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| Enrollment: | 50 students each offering |
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| Description: | Examines human factors in the software design and application process from initial requirements to testing and implementation, with emphasis on designing the user interface. Also listed as PSY 4753 |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (CS 6751.) |
| Instructor: | Badre, Hudson, Stasko |
| Frequency: | 3 times a year |
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| Description: | Human-computer interface is considered in terms of user-system compatibility. Concepts in human factors and interface design are covered in relation to capabilities of both humans and computers. Also listed as PSY 6751 |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE II (CS 6752.) |
| Instructor: | Foley, Badre |
| Frequency: | 1 time a year |
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| Description: | The design process, and application of design principles to the design process. Additional design topics, such as help systems, interaction styles, and visual design principles. User interface prototyping and development tools |
| Course: | PRINCIPLES OF USER INTERFACE SOFTWARE (CS 6395) |
| Instructor: | Hudson, Stasko |
| Frequency: | 2 time a year |
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| Description: | Algorithmic and architectural principles for construction of modern user interfaces. I/O models, interaction techniques, window systems, toolkits, high-level specification, and implementation techniques. |
| Course: | DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE () |
| Instructor: | Piere Dillenbourg |
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| Enrollment: | 30 |
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| Description: | General introduction to HCI based on concrete design activities with Authorware. It is oriented towards the categories of software that are used in our faculty: courseware, tests, computer-based experiments, ... It is taught both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (SWSE 632) |
| Instructor: | Jeff Offutt |
| Frequency: | Spring |
| Times_Taught: | 2+ |
| Enrollment: | 33 in S93 |
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| Description: | This course will focus on the software interface between the computer and the human. Concepts in human factors will be covered, specifically in terms of designing software interfaces. We will cover theories of human-computer interaction, including human cognitive limitations, syntactic versus semantic knowledge, transitionality, and the ``outside-in'' design approach. We will also survey guidelines for designing computer interfaces of various models, including command interfaces, menus, desktop views, and WIMP interfaces. |
| Course: | COGNITIVE ENGINEERING: COGNITIVE SCIENCE APPLIED TO HUMAN FACTORS (PSYC 530) |
| Instructor: | Gray |
| Frequency: | Fall |
| Times_Taught: | 2 |
| Enrollment: | 15-20 |
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| Description: | Covers cognitive theory from an applied perspective to understand and predict the interactions among human cognition, artifact (i.e., tools), and task. The course emphasizes current work in one or more applied domains such as human-computer interaction, aviation psychology, medical human factors, and so on. Recent research and case studies that emphasize analytical modeling techniques, systems design, and the development of tools and methods are discussed. |
| Course: | RESEARCH METHODS IN HUMAN FACTORS AND APPLIED COGNITION (PSYC 645) |
| Instructor: | Boehm-Davis, Gray, Allen |
| Frequency: | every year |
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| Description: | Hands-on approach to selected current and/or classical Human Factors and Applied Cognition research methods. (The exact methods will be announced in advance.) Potential methods include task analysis, critical incident analysis, reliability/error analysis, workload measures, verbal protocol analysis, user interface evaluation methods, and engineering models of human performance. May be repeated for credit. |
| Course: | SEMINAR IN HUMAN FACTORS & APPLIED COGNITION (PSYC 734) |
| Instructor: | program faculty |
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| Description: | This seminar series emphasizes current research and development in human factors, ergonomics, applied cognition, and applied perception. May be repeated for credit. |
| Course: | SEMINAR IN HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIONS (PSYC 737) |
| Instructor: | Boehm-Davis |
| Frequency: | every other year |
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| Description: | This seminar series emphasizes current research and development in human-computer interaction, cognitive systems engineering, cognitive ergonomics, and cognitive engineering. May be repeated for credit. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CSC 434/634) |
| Instructor: | J. Morgan Morris |
| Frequency: | Two times a year |
| Times_Taught: | 5 |
| Enrollment: | 25 |
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| Description: | The goal of this course is to examine existing principles and guidelines of user interface design, while emphasizing the methodology necessary to design and evaluate for usability. The topics covered by this course include the following: human factors in software development, human-computer dialogue, and assessment methodologies. |
| Course: | ADVANCED HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CSC 834) |
| Instructor: | J. Morgan Morris |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 2 |
| Enrollment: | 5-10 |
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| Description: | This course builds on the design and evaluation methodologies presented in CSC 634. This course focuses on applying these ideas to the use of hypertext and multimedia in the user interface. |
| Course: | COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CSC 470/670) |
| Instructor: | G. Scott Owen |
| Frequency: | Two times a year |
| Times_Taught: | 10 |
| Enrollment: | 25 |
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| Description: | To obtain an overview of Computer Graphics including hardware and software system architectures, image synthesis techniques, animation techniques, and some application areas. Topics covered include display devices, distributed graphics, image synthesis techniques, 2D and 3D animation, and visualization. |
| Course: | ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CSC 870) |
| Instructor: | G. Scott Owen |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 6 |
| Enrollment: | 5-10 |
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| Description: | The purpose of this course is to learn advanced image synthesis techniques including the following: advanced illumination models, advanced ray tracing, anti-aliasing, special effects, 2D and 3D animation, and many other topics. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (27-430) |
| Instructor: | Carey, Fels |
| Frequency: | yearly, fall |
| Times_Taught: | 12 |
| Enrollment: | 25 undergraduates, 2-3 graduates |
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| Description: | The major topics of this course are design issues and design methods for better user interfaces in interactive computer systems. User interface toolkits will be a minor topic. |
| Course: | SOFTWARE ENGINEERING OF INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS (27-601) |
| Instructor: | Carey |
| Frequency: | yearly, fall |
| Times_Taught: | 8 |
| Enrollment: | 6-10 |
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| Course: | MODELS FOR HCI (27-611) |
| Instructor: | Carey, MacKenzie |
| Frequency: | alternate years, winter |
| Times_Taught: | 5 |
| Enrollment: | 6-10 |
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| Course: | RESEARCH IN DESIGN METHODS FOR HCI (27-621) |
| Instructor: | Carey |
| Frequency: | alternate years, winter |
| Times_Taught: | 4 |
| Enrollment: | 4-8 |
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| Description: | Current practice in hci design processes; examination of research to improve hci design. |
| Course: | TOPICS IN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS (27-661) |
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| Frequency: | occasional, spring/summer semester |
| Times_Taught: | 3 |
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| Description: | typical topics are intelligent user interfaces (using Sullivan and Tyler as base text), usability issues in multimedia (Laurillard text), CSCW (Baecker et al readings). |
| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS (80-687) |
| Instructor: | Matthews |
| Frequency: | occasional, winter semester |
| Times_Taught: | 3 |
| Enrollment: | 4-7 |
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| Course: | INTRODUCTORY HUMAN FACTORS (202.3111.A1) |
| Instructor: | Norman Schwalm |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 1 |
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| Description: | Theoretical and applied principles in man-machine interface design. Human factors methodology in deign and evaluation; input, process and output in interfaces; workplace design; environmental effects on performance; software design. |
| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN WORKPLACE DESIGN (202.4046.A1) |
| Instructor: | Norman Schwalm |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | The course is presented in two parts: 1) Human Factors principles in relation to workplace design: defining user populations, user stereotypes, task analysis and user-centred system evaluation are taught. 2) Field study |
| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN THE DESIGN OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE (202.4999.B1) |
| Instructor: | Norman Schwalm |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | Basics of computerized systems design, with emphasis on software design guidelines. Analysis of user needs and incorporation of design methods for novice and expert users. Discussion of various design environments (e.g., "Windows") and multimedia systems. Techniques of user-interface document preparation. |
| Course: | MASTER OF SCIENCE IN HCI (25) |
| Instructor: | A.C. Kilgour, P.O. Holt & others |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Times_Taught: | October - April (taught) May - September (dissertation) |
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| Description: | Taught modules cover the design and development of interactive systems, including human factors, design methodologies, empirical methods, multimedia technology, and software tools, with application options including computer- based learning, graphics, database systems and knowledge based systems. The taught material is applied and developed in a major project written up as a dissertation. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (TDDB10) |
| Instructor: | Jonas Lowgren |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 3 |
| Enrollment: | 60-70 |
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| Description: | The course is given for undergraduate computer science and engineering majors. The goal of the course is to give the students a toolbox of techniques for user interface development, including design, implementation and evaluation. Throughout the course, the techniques are practised in applied exercises. |
| Course: | DESIGN FOR USABILITY () |
| Instructor: | Jonas Lowgren |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | The course is given for undergraduate information systems majors. The goal is to have students critically examine the concept of usability, investigate the fundamentals of design theory and creativity and finally to bring the draw the two areas together by means of a small project. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (1cs82) |
| Instructor: | Dan Diaper |
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| Description: | This B.Sc. year three option presents an engineering orientated view of HCI and uses many real world examples. After its introductory lectures it places practical HCI in the context of ethics before covering issues of system and interface design. Also covered are methods of eliciting knowledge from people (including, of course, a system's direct end users or operators). |
| Course: | HUMAN ASPECTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (PT I.) (SE104) |
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| Course: | HUMAN ASPECTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (PT II.) (SE104) |
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| Course: | MSC AND DIPLOMA IN INTERACTIVE COMPUTING SYSTEM DESIGN (N/A) |
| Instructor: | J.L.Alty H.E.Bez A.A.Clarke J.H.Connolly K.D.Eason E.A.Edmonds S.P.Guest S.Harker P.Kocura M.Maguire V.A.J.Maller I.A.Newman |
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| Course: | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION () |
| Instructor: | Matjaz Debevc |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING () |
| Instructor: | Zdravko Kacic |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | MAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION () |
| Instructor: | Zdravko Kacic |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CMSC 434/828) |
| Instructor: | Ben Shneiderman |
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| Course: | ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY AND TRAINING METHODS (PSYC 462) |
| Instructor: | Nancy S. Anderson |
| Frequency: | Every other year |
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| Course: | SEMINAR IN HUMAN PERFORMANCE THEORY (PSYC 735) |
| Instructor: | Kent L. Norman |
| Frequency: | Every other year |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (59.327) |
| Instructor: | Chris Phillips |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (59.318) |
| Instructor: | Elizabeth Kemp |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | DESIGN OF THE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (59.463) |
| Instructor: | Chris Phillips |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | PERSON-MACHINE COMMUNICATION (CS 538) |
| Instructor: | Renato De Mori |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACE ENGINEERING (CS 765) |
| Instructor: | Rudolf K. Keller |
| Frequency: | Every second year |
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| Course: | HUMAN INTERFACE TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY () |
| Instructor: | Judy Olson |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACES AND PROGRAMMING IN X (CSci 5110) |
| Instructor: | Joseph A. Konstan |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS () |
| Instructor: | Victor Kaptelinin |
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| Description: | Dialogue styles, cognitive studies of human computer interaction, mental models, behavioral methods in user interface evaluation, skill development. |
| Course: | COMPUTER METHODOLOGY (Psych 510) |
| Instructor: | McDonald |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (Psych 530) |
| Instructor: | McDonald |
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| Course: | ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY (Psych 547) |
| Instructor: | Gillan, Cooke |
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| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS METHODS (Psych 548) |
| Instructor: | Cooke, Gillan, McDonald |
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| Description: | Focuses on methods used to solve problems in human factors including task analysis, job analysis, cognitive task analysis, multivariate methods, process tracing, text engineering, prototyping, and usability testing. The methods are discussed using a variety of applied examples and hands-on training. |
| Course: | SPECIAL TOPICS (Psych 570 and 670) |
| Instructor: | Cooke, Foltz, Gillan, Lee, McDonald, Paap, Schvaneveldt, Thompson |
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| Course: | SEMINAR IN ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY (Psych 604) |
| Instructor: | Cooke, Foltz, Gillan, Lee, McDonald, Paap, Schvaneveldt |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN (CS 485) |
| Instructor: | Bill Ogden |
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| Course: | ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING (IE 590) |
| Instructor: | Ed Pines |
| Frequency: | 1 time/year |
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| Description: | The course covers the issues and methods used in the design of manufacturing systems, methods, tools, and equipment that are used or controlled by human operators. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (MCTE/MCIS/MMIS 680) |
| Instructor: | Laurie P. Dringus |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 6 |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (DCIS/DISS/DCTE 720/DCIS/DISS/DCTE 820) |
| Instructor: | Laurie P. Dringus |
| Frequency: | Every two years |
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| Description: | This doctoral level course presents design principles, guidelines, and methodologies for building, installing, managing, and maintaining interactive systems. Other topics: HCI research, CSCW, user productivity, usability engineering. |
| Course: | COGNITIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ISE 673) |
| Instructor: | Phil Smith |
| Frequency: | Yearly |
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| Course: | HUMAN COOPERATION WITH INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISE 773) |
| Instructor: | David Woods |
| Frequency: | Yearly |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS (ISE 774) |
| Instructor: | David Woods |
| Frequency: | Yearly |
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| Course: | VERBAL PROTOCOL ANALYSIS AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION (ISE 775) |
| Instructor: | Phil Smith |
| Frequency: | Yearly |
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| Course: | ADVANCED TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ISE 817) |
| Instructor: | Phil Smith |
| Frequency: | Yearly |
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| Course: | ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF COGNITION (ISE 818) |
| Instructor: | David Woods |
| Frequency: | Every other year |
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| Course: | HUMAN ERROR AND SYSTEM DISASTER (ISE 820) |
| Instructor: | David Woods |
| Frequency: | Every other year |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN () |
| Instructor: | Peter Gorny, Ina Pitschke |
| Frequency: | irregular |
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| Instructor: | Peter Gorny, Ulrike Daldrup |
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| Course: | HUMAN_COMPUTER INTERACTION (PMT607) |
| Instructor: | Jenny Preece, David Benyon |
| Frequency: | Twice per year |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACES (CIS 443/543) |
| Instructor: | Sarah Douglas |
| Frequency: | annual |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CIS 610) |
| Instructor: | Sarah Douglas |
| Frequency: | annual |
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| Course: | KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTERFACES (CIS 677) |
| Instructor: | Sarah Douglas |
| Frequency: | bi-annual |
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| Course: | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (CIS 675) |
| Instructor: | Sarah Douglas |
| Frequency: | bi-annual |
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| Course: | COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CIS 441/541) |
| Instructor: | Gary Meyer |
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| Course: | ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CIS 641) |
| Instructor: | Gary Meyer |
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| Course: | ADVANCED IMAGE SYNTHESIS (CIS 610) |
| Instructor: | Gary Meyer |
| Frequency: | bi-annual |
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| Course: | VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING (CIS 674) |
| Instructor: | Kent Stevens |
| Frequency: | bi-annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS560) |
| Instructor: | Jean Scholtz |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | ADVANCED TOPICS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS410/510) |
| Instructor: | Jean Scholtz |
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| Course: | PROGRAMMING THE USER INTERFACE (CS410/510 ) |
| Instructor: | Jim Larson/ Jean Scholtz (alternate) |
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| Course: | CSCW (CS410/510) |
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| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY () |
| Instructor: | Darren van Laar and John MacDonald |
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| Course: | USER MODELLING () |
| Instructor: | Hilary Johnson |
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| Course: | INTERACTIVE SYSTEM DESIGN () |
| Instructor: | Prof George Coulouris/Prof Peter Johnson |
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| Course: | VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND MULTIMEDIA () |
| Instructor: | Mel slater/Sylvia wilbur |
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| Course: | NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES AND SYSTEMS () |
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| Course: | INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHICAL HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES (66.4600) |
| Instructor: | Ephraim P. Glinert |
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| Description: | An introduction to issues related to the design of visual and multimedia human-machine interfaces for a broad range of applications and diverse user communities. Students also learn fundamental concepts of computer graphics and systems software such as X Windows and Motif, and they design and implement two substantial projects, at least one of which is on a topic of their own choosing. |
| Course: | HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS247A) |
| Instructor: | Bill Verplank and Terry Winograd |
| Frequency: | 1/year |
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| Course: | HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS247B) |
| Instructor: | Karen Wieckert and Terry Winograd |
| Frequency: | 1/year |
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| Course: | CONCEPTS OF TEXT (CS273) |
| Instructor: | Chuck Bigelow |
| Frequency: | once a year |
| Times_Taught: | 6 |
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| Description: | What every literate person should know about the basic principles of the visual organization of text. Topics: handwriting, typewriting, typography and computerized documents, perceptual, linguistic, and semiological issues. |
| Course: | PHENOMENOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTATION, LANGUAGE, AND COGNITION (CS378) |
| Instructor: | Winograd |
| Frequency: | once/yr |
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| Course: | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CS 248) |
| Instructor: | Marc Levoy |
| Frequency: | Once per year |
| Times_Taught: | Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30-10:45 |
| Enrollment: | 50-80 |
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| Course: | COMPUTER GRAPHICS: IMAGE SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES (CS 348B) |
| Instructor: | Marc Levoy |
| Frequency: | Once per year |
| Times_Taught: | Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30-10:45 |
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| Course: | TOPICS IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CS 348C) |
| Instructor: | Marc Levoy |
| Frequency: | Once per year |
| Times_Taught: | Tuesday, Thursday, 1:15-2:30 |
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| Course: | SEMINAR ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS547) |
| Instructor: | Winograd |
| Frequency: | every quarter |
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| Description: | This course is a weekly series of presentations by researchers in the HCI field from around the country, at both academic and industrial sites. It is broadcast on the Stanford Instructional Television Network, and covers a wide range of topics related to HCI. |
| Course: | TOPICS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS377) |
| Instructor: | Varies from year to year - 1993, Chuck Clanton |
| Frequency: | once a year |
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| Course: | OBJECT-ORIENTED USER INTERFACE PROGRAMMING ON THE NEXT (CS 193e) |
| Instructor: | Julie Zelenski |
| Frequency: | offered once a year |
| Times_Taught: | 4 times |
| Enrollment: | usually 30-50 students |
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| Course: | PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF MEDIA (Comm 172/272) |
| Instructor: | Byron Reeves |
| Frequency: | Once/yr. |
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| Description: | Review of theory and research about how people process pictures, voices, and sounds. Theories of attention, memory, emotion, decision making, evaluation and judgment, are examined. |
| Course: | SELECTED TOPICS IN COGNITION () |
| Instructor: | Barbara Tversky |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | This is a graduate seminar whose topic changes yearly. Usually, we read theoretical and applied work on a problem related to spatial cognition, such as mental models and graph production and comprehension. |
| Course: | MIT (HCI) () |
| Instructor: | Steve Howard |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | This Masters degree covers the issues, information sources, and methods used in the design, implementation and evaluation of user interfaces, the parts of software systems designed to interact with people. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACES () |
| Instructor: | Kari-Jouko Raiha |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Enrollment: | 70 |
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| Course: | GROUPWARE () |
| Instructor: | Kari-Jouko Raiha |
| Frequency: | Infrequently |
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| Course: | COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION (CPSC 671) |
| Instructor: | John Leggett, Richard Furuta |
| Frequency: | Each Fall |
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| Course: | HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS (CPSC 610) |
| Instructor: | John Leggett, Richard Furuta |
| Frequency: | Even year Springs |
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| Course: | COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK (CPSC 689) |
| Instructor: | John Leggett, Richard Furuta |
| Frequency: | Odd year Springs |
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| Course: | THE DESIGN OF INTERACTIVE COMPUTATIONAL MEDIA () |
| Instructor: | Ron Baecker |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION () |
| Instructor: | Marilyn Mantei |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | TOPICS IN INTERACTIVE COMPUTING () |
| Instructor: | Ron Baecker |
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| Description: | An advanced graduate seminar focusing on research issues in human-computer interaction and user interface design. Subjects will vary from year to year, but topics could include, for example, novel information techniques, multi-media and multi-modal interaction, the use of colour in information displays, program visualization, and visual programming, systems for cooperative work, and formalisms for modelling the human user and her interaction with the system. Extensive student participation. |
| Course: | RESEARCH SEMINAR IN INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS FOR EDUCATION (3500) |
| Instructor: | Robert S. McLean |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 10 |
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| Course: | HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (LIS 2528) |
| Instructor: | Cherry |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | The factors which affect user performance with computerized information systems, principles for designing usable systems, and methodologies for assessing usability. |
| Course: | USER CENTERED INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (LIS 2748) |
| Instructor: | Clement, Meadow |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | Theoretical and practical implications for a user-centered perspective on the development of computerized information systems. Topics include user participation, alternative development methodologies, end-user computing, prototyping techniques, computer cooperative work. Emphasis on the development of systems at the workgroup level using common software packages. |
| Course: | THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (LIS 2538) |
| Instructor: | Clement |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Description: | Examines some of the major social issues related to the computerization of society. A unifying theme is to view information technology as providing the means for social as well as technical control with the various drawbacks and advantages this can mean. |
| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN (CS4029) |
| Instructor: | Trevor Smedley |
| Frequency: | Annually |
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| Course: | VISUAL PROGRAMMING (CS6087) |
| Instructor: | Trevor Smedley |
| Frequency: | Annually |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ICS 227) |
| Instructor: | Richard Taylor |
| Frequency: | Biennial |
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| Course: | DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION () |
| Instructor: | Mark Ackerman |
| Frequency: | Biennial |
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| Description: | Information environments for distributed information retrieval and interfaces, user interface and CSCW issues in distributed information, social definition and use of information. |
| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (ICS 205) |
| Instructor: | Jonathan Grudin |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND GROUPWARE (ICS 253) |
| Instructor: | Jonathan Grudin |
| Frequency: | Biennial |
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| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION () |
| Instructor: | M. Andrew Life, John Long |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACE DESIGN (INLS 257) |
| Instructor: | Barbara M. Wildemuth |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CS978) |
| Instructor: | Susan Wiedenbeck, Scott Henninger |
| Frequency: | annual |
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| Course: | SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CS461/861) |
| Instructor: | Scott Henninger, Susan Wiedenbeck |
| Frequency: | annual |
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| Course: | ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CS962) |
| Instructor: | Scott Henninger |
| Frequency: | bi-annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS 378) |
| Instructor: | Susan Wiedenbeck, Scott Henninger |
| Frequency: | bi-annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (COMP 3511) |
| Instructor: | Clark N. Quinn |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (COMP 9511) |
| Instructor: | Clark N. Quinn |
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| Course: | SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN OF USER INTERFACE SOFTWARE (CS588) |
| Instructor: | Steven M. Jacobs |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (CS594) |
| Instructor: | Brad Vander Zanden |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Times_Taught: | 3 |
| Enrollment: | 3-35 (depends on whether seminar or regular class) |
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| Course: | COMPUTER GRAPHICS (CS460) |
| Instructor: | Brad Vander Zanden |
| Frequency: | Every other year |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (31777) |
| Instructor: | Judy Hammond |
| Frequency: | twice a year |
| Times_Taught: | 4 |
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| Course: | SOFTWARE ENGINEERING OF USER INTERFACES (SE403) |
| Instructor: | Peter E. Jones |
| Frequency: | 1 per year |
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| Course: | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE SYSTEMS (BUS 659) |
| Instructor: | J. Gasen |
| Frequency: | every 2 years |
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| Course: | HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (BUS 491) |
| Instructor: | J.Gasen |
| Frequency: | every year |
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| Course: | TECHNOLOGY 2000: COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE DECISION-MAKING (BUS 691) |
| Instructor: | J. Gasen |
| Frequency: | every year |
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| Course: | USER INTERFACES (cs305) |
| Instructor: | pausch |
| Frequency: | yearly |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS 5714) |
| Instructor: | Rex Hartson, Deborah Hix |
| Frequency: | Annual |
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| Course: | SPECIAL TOPICS HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS 6940) |
| Instructor: | various faculty |
| Frequency: | variable |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION () |
| Instructor: | Gerrit C. van der Veer |
| Frequency: | 1 / year |
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| Course: | PRACTICE OF HCI DESIGN (-) |
| Instructor: | Gerrit van der Veer, Geert de Haan |
| Frequency: | 1 / year |
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| Course: | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CS3041) |
| Instructor: | Craig E. Wills |
| Frequency: | annually |
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| Course: | SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY () |
| Instructor: | Halcomb |
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