91.568 Seminar in HCI
A University of Massachusetts Lowell graduate course taught by Jill Drury
Course Materials
Syllabus
Week 1: Seminar Intro
Week 1: Intro to decision spaces
Week 2: Decision models and Option Awareness
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Groups for Design Project
Acacia Partnership: Cleo, Eric, Roger
Alderwood Consulting: Adam, Heather, Tristan
Aspentree Associates: Amanda, Jesse, Simone
New syllabus: New dates should show us turning in the paper on 19 December
We will have a guest lecture tonight and then work on our project. The "syllabus" link at left contains the new version of the syllabus.
Course Date/Time/Place
Mondays from 5:30 - 8:30 starting 12 September 2011
Olsen Hall Room 402
Course Description
A primary purpose of this seminar course is to involve students in current HCI research and to learn to critique others’ HCI research. The theme of this offering of the HCI Seminar is information presentation for decision-making. Dr. Gary Klein of The MITRE Corporation and Prof. Mark Pfaff of Indiana University-Indianapolis and I have been researching this area together since 2008 and have made some progress in showing that people make faster, more correct decisions more confidently if they are provided with information that shows the relative desirability of one decision option versus another, instead of simply the facts of the situation. To date, however, we have developed graphical depictions of the “goodness” of the decision options using only very rudimentary approaches (specifically, box-plots and scatter plots). Will decision makers make better or faster decisions if they can view the information about their choices in other ways? Or perhaps these visualization approaches are good but users’ understanding can be enhanced by adding controls and/or affordances for information exploration? This course will challenge students to develop alternative interfaces in accordance with the best principles of information presentation and then design and execute a human-in-the-loop experiment to determine if any differences in performance occur. Class members will co-author a paper documenting this experiment and submit it to a conference, the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) 2012. In addition, students will be responsible for finding and presenting to the rest of the class other research that involves information presentation for decision-making, and for critiquing several research papers in detail.
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Updated 17 October 2011