Class hours: Tues & Thurs 9:30pm - 10:45pm

Room: Engineering 3140, Learning Theater

Office hours: Tues & Thurs 11am - noon

Room: AVW 3177 Phone: 301-405-2680 Email: ben@cs.umd.edu

Teaching Assistant: Eser Kandogan Office hours: Mon & Wen 4:30pm-6:00pm

Room: AVW 1151 Email: kandogan@cs.umd.edu

• B. Shneiderman, Designing the User Interface, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, (1998)
• Recommended to review statistics: R. Runyon & A. Haber,
• Fundamentals of Behavioral Statistics, 8th Edition, McGraw-Hill (1996).

Topics: Human factors issues in the development of software, use of database systems, and design of user interfaces for interactive systems. Science base (theories, models, usability studies, and controlled experimentation), and software engineering with user interface development environments. Issues include: command languages, menus, forms,and direct manipulation, graphical user interfaces, computer supported cooperative work, information search and visualization, World Wide Web design, input/output devices, and display design.

Homework: Critiques will be written for an experimental study and for a working system. Students will implement user interfaces with modern software tools such as Visual Basic (teams of 2 people).

Term Projects: Controlled experiment with human subjects on a design issue (teams of 2 - 4 people).

Week   Topic                            Chapter Project                Homework
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1/27   Introduction, Theories    	1, 2
2/3    Managing Design           	3
2/10   Evaluation & Tools        	4, 5                           Exp't Critique (2/10)
2/17   Direct Manipulation       	6      	Proposal (2/17)
2/24   Menus & Forms             	7         		       VB 1 (2/26)
3/3    Command & Natural Langs  	8      	Materials (3/3)
							               Exam 1-8 (3/5)
3/10   Interaction & Response    	9, 10  	References (3/11)      VB 2 Hardcopy design (3/12)
3/17   Style                     	11     	Pilot Results (3/17)   VB 2 (3/19)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - S p r i n g  B r e a k - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3/31   Manuals & Help            	12     	Statistics (3/31)
4/7    Multiple Windows          	13   			       System Critique (4/7)
4/14   CSCW				14  	Raw Data (4/14)
							               Draft Intro(4/16)
4/21   Info Search               	15			       Exam 9-14 (4/21)
								       or website
4/28   Web                       	16
5/5    Social Impact, Reports    	After  	Final Project due (5/5)
					        Comments (5/7)
5/12   Reports (at final exam time)
				                Revision (5/12)

Final Grade: Exams: 15+15% Homework+class participation: 30% Term Project: 40%.