Intro HCI & Design 2016F
Fall Semester, 2016
Computer Science and Information Engineering Department
資訊工程學系與研究所
National Taiwan University
國立臺灣大學
Class Time: Mon 2:20 ~ 5:10
Class Room: CSIE 資102
Course Description:
This course brings design thinking processes and tools to user experience design, with a focus on mobile/wearable technologies. This course covers the basic design thinking process, starting from user needfinding, insightful problem statement with point of views, ideation, prototype, and evaluation. This course is practical with a project studio (i.e., half-lecture & half-studio), in which students will apply techniques and methods learned in the class and use them to design+build+test a semester-long group project. As a relatively new & second-time course offering by the faculty, this course is experimental that the teaching staff may not figure out every detail yet. Students must be willling to learn together with the teaching staff. This course adapts teaching materials from the Stanford HCI course (with thanks to Prof. James Landay) and Stanford D.School.
Prerequisite:
Minimum (web) programming skill
Good English skill (all readings & videos are in English)
Willing to work in groups
Teaching Staff and Office Hours:
Instructor: 朱浩華 (Hao), Room 518, Office hour: Tue 10:00-12:00, email: hchu (at) csie.ntu.edu.tw
Teaching assistant: 李爭原 (Kelvin), Room 336, Office hour: Tue. 16:00-17:00, email: kelvindk+hcid (at) gmail
Teaching assistant: Evelyn Liu, Room 336, email: evelynliu324 (at) gmail
Course Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/546338088894744/
Projects:
Lecture Schedule:
9/12/2016
Assignment Due: (1) Join FB group for course announcements. (2) Email TA your name & student_id and project theme of interest before Sat (9/17)
9/19/2016
Readings:
Tom Kelley, The Perfect Brainstorm, Excerpt from The Art of Innovation
Holtzblatt & Beyer, Contextual Design, Ch. 3
Optional: Holtzblatt & Beyer, Contextual Design. In: The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
Assignment:
Assignment #1 Needfinding (Group) Appointment signup sheet
9/26/2016
Readings:
ABC News Nightline IDEO Deep Dive, July 1999 (22 minutes) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
video: ABC News, IDEO Design Thinking, Jan. 6, 2013 (13 minutes)
video: How to give a great research talk, Patrick Baudisch, (fast-forward to 12th min and stop on 30th min, total 18 min)
10/3/2016
Topic: Ideate (lecture)
Readings:
Tips for Working Successfully in a Group by Randy Pausch
The Discipline of Teams, by Katzenbach and Smith, Harvard Business Review
Keys to Creating Awesome Teams (5:21), Cyriac Roeding, Shopkick
Working in Teams (0:56), Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Team Composition (2:33), Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Ways to Create Ecosystems (really characteristics of group intelligence, performance, & innovation) (5:43), Sharon Vosmek, Astia
Ways of Working (5:50), Sue Siegel, GE
Assignment:
Out: Assignment #2: PoVs and Experience Prototypes (Group)
Due: Assignment #1 Needfinding (Group)
Studio:
Read How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback, Karen Cheng
Present Assignment #1 Needfinding (Group)
10/10/2016
No class, national holiday
10/17/2016
10/24/2016
Topic: Concept Videos (lecture)
Readings:
Assignment:
Out: Assignment #4: Concept Video (Group)
Due: Assignments #2/#3 Final Needfinding, PoVs and Experience Prototypes
Studio:
Present Assignment #2/#3 Final Needfinding, PoVs and Experience Prototypes
10/31/2016
Catchup on assignments & Studio only
Assignment:
Out: Assignment #5: Low-fi Prototype & Test (Group)
11/7/2016
Topic: Early Stage Prototyping (lecture)
Readings:
"Involving Customers with Iterative Design" (Ch 4) of The Design of Sites
"Making a Paper Prototype" (Ch 4) from Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder
11/14/2016
Topic: Mid-Fi/Hi-Fi Prototyping Tool (slides) by TAs
Readings:
Gomoll, Kathleen. "Some Techniques for Observing Users." From The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel.
Assignment:
Out: Assignment #6: Medium-fi Prototype (Group)
Due: Assignment #4 Concept Video
Studo:
Present Assignment #4 Concept Video
11/21/2016
Topic: Human Abilities (slides)
Readings:
Assignment:
Due: Assignment #5: Low-fi Prototype & Test
Studio:
Present Assignment #5: Low-fi Prototype & Test
11/28/2016
Topic: Visual Information Design (lecture)
Reading:
Watch Scott Klemmer’s HCI Online lectures: 6.1 Visual Design (7:37), 6.2 Typography (10:47), 6.3 Grids & Alignment (17:33)
Studio:
Continue to present Assignment #5: Low-fi Prototype & Test
12/5/2016
Topic: Heuristic Evaluation (lecture)
Readings:
How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation by Jakob Nielsen
Assignment:
Assignment #7: Heuristic Evaluation (Individual)
Assignment #6: Medium-fi Prototype & Test
Studio
Present Assignment #6: Medium-fi Prototype & Test
12/12/2016
Topic: Conceptual Models & Interface Metaphors (lecture)
Readings:
"The Psychology of Everyday Things" (Ch. 1), from The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Assignment:
Due: Assignment #7: Heuristic Evaluation (Individual)
12/19/2016
Topic: User Testing (lecture)
Assignment:
12/26/2016
Check Project Progress
Assignment:
Out: Assignment #10: Poster & Pitch Slide (Group)
Studio:
Checkpoint for Assignment #8: Hi-Fi Prototype (Group)
12/30/2016
Send poster file to TA Kelvin before PM 2:00 for printing
1/2/2017
No class, National holiday. Continue to work on Hi-Fi prototype
1/5/2017
Due Assignment #8: Hi-Fi Prototype: upload report on your website
1/6/2017 Friday 6-9 PM
Project Fair: outside classroom area
Grading:
10% Class/studio participation
10% Individual assignments
80% Project