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This site provides an online base for HCI 596: Emerging Practices in HCI, being taught by Mike Oren, M.S. and Stephen Gilbert, PhD as part of the Iowa State University HCI graduate program. The course is open to on-campus and off-campus students. Off-campus students will receive streaming video and can participate live during class if desired using Adobe Connect at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/hci596su09.


Course Blog

Week 12

Final class presentations:

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 12

QuickTime Lecture 12

Week 11

PowerPoint for 30 July 2009

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 11

QuickTime Lecture 11

Week 10

PowerPoint for 23 July 2009

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 10

QuickTime Lecture 10

Week 9

• Culturability: The Merging of Culture & Usability
• Cross-cultural applicability of user evaluation methods
• Dealing with key challenges in international usability and user research

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 9

QuickTime Lecture 9

Week 8

Week 7

PowerPoint for 2 July 2009

Optional Reading: None

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 7

QuickTime Lecture 7

Week 6

• And the comic missing from the PowerPoint

Week 5

Optional Reading:

• On the theorist, Kevin Crowston
• Coordination Theory: A Ten-Year Retrospective (Google Books)
• What is Coordination Theory?

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 5

QuickTime Lecture 5

Week 4

PowerPoint for 11 June 2009

Optional Reading:

• Wikipedia on Bruno Latour
• Bruno Latour's web site (he keeps his publications up there if you want to read more of his work)
•  Latour, Bruno. "Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts". From Shaping Technology, Weibe Bijker & John Law, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 225-258.
• More on designing technologies for/to control
  

Adobe Connect Recording of Lecture 4

QuickTime Lecture 4

Week 3

PowerPoint Slides for 04 June 2009

Optional Readings (were e-mailed)

QuickTime Lecture 3

No Adobe Connect recording this week

Week 2

PowerPoint Slides for 28 May 2009

Optional Readings (read these if situated action excites you and you want to learn more about it):

• Wikipedia on Lucy Suchman
  
• Suchman, Lucy.  1987.  Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication.  New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-4, 27-67, 178-189.
• Suchman, Lucy. 1993. “Response to Vera and Simon’s Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation”. In Cognitive Science 17, pp. 71-75.
• Suchman, Lucy. 1995. “Making Work Visible”. In Communications of the ACM 38(9), pp. 56-64.
• Suchman, Lucy. 1999. “Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice”. In The American Behavioral Scientist 43(3), pp. 392-408.

QuickTime Lecture 2

Adobe Connect Recording Lecture 2

Week 1

PowerPoint Slides for 21 May 2009:

• Part 1: Overview of the course & course policies
• Part 2: Summary of Cooper Ch 1 & Tullis Ch 1; Flex login demo
• Part 3: Introduction to service design

QuickTime Lecture 1 (split up lecture available from the EDE video repository)

 Adobe Connect Recording Lecture 1

Recent Announcements

• Flex Pizza Ordering Sample Tutorial Video (.zip on RapidShare)I spent some time on 29 June 2009 and created a very, very simplistic example of a pizza ordering system--all pizzas are of large ...
  Posted Jun 30, 2009 12:26 PM by Mike Oren
• Flex Login Demo Uploaded I uploaded sample code for an Adobe Flex demo that I will be going over in class (May 21st). It uses rude dialog boxes, but it shows the basic type ...
  Posted May 20, 2009 9:01 PM by Mike Oren
• Welcome to HCI 596 On this page, Stephen and I (Mike) will be posting various course announcements, highlight particularly good projects from class, etc. We are constantly seeking to improve the course, so if ...
  Posted Apr 9, 2009 8:26 AM by Mike Oren

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