1) Sept 1

2) Sept 8

Assignment 1:1 Due Tuesday on the following:

• Heuristic Evaluation Overview
• Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics
• How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation
• Nielsen CHI'90 paper (PDF)

3) Sept 15

Assignment 1:2 Due Tuesday on the following:

• Contextual Enquiry Primer
• Field Studies: The Best Tool to Discover User Needs
• Gerry Gafne interview with Patrick Larvae - UX at Google
• Field Research, and interview with Kate Gomoll
• Implications of ethnography for design (PDF)

Assignment 1:3 Due Thursday on the following:

• Eye tracking in usability research (PDF)
• Testing Web Sites with Eyetracking
• F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
• Using Eye-tracking to Supplement Usability Testing

4) Sept 22

Assignment 1:4 Due Tuesday on the following:

• Snyder on Paper Prototyping
• Nielsen on Paper Prototyping
• Looking Back on 16 Years of Paper Prototyping
• HIGH-FIDELITY OR LOW-FIDELITY, PAPER OR COMPUTER?

Please have a look at the following for Thursday:

• USING WIREFRAMES
• HTML Wireframes and Prototypes: All Gain and No Pain

5) Sept 29

Assignment 1:5 - due Tuesday - please have a look at the group page to determine your review group (deadline now extended to Thursday):

• Group A: Affinity Diagraming
• ASQ
• InfoDesign
• KJ Diagrams (PDF)
• The KJ Method (PDF)
• Back to Basics (PDF)

• Group B: Card Sorting
• .GOV
• Boxes&Arrows
• USEIT
  
• UXPod
• ACM (PDF)

Tuesday:

• Brady & Amy
  Topic: Affinity Diagramming
• Max & Mitch
  Topic: Card Sorting

Thursday:

Phase 1-Concept: Doc and Presentations on Thursday

6) Oct 6

Assignment 1:6 - due Thursday - please see the group page to determine your review group :

• Group A: Personas
• Personas
• Ten Steps to Personas
• Introduction to Personas
• Arguments Against (PDF)

• Group B: Scenarios
• Scenario (Design Usability Resources)
  
• Write Scenarios-Analyze | Usability.gov
  
• Cost-effective User Centred Design - Recommended method 3: Task Scenarios
  
• Writing and Correcting Textual Scenarios (PDF)
  

Thursday:

• Henry & Dario
  Topic: Personas
  
• Pawel & Robert
  Topic: Scenarios
  

Tuesday:

Phase 1-Concept: Presentations

7) Oct 13

Assignment 1:7 - due Tuesday - please see the group page to determine your review group :

• Group A:Survey & Questionnaire Design
• Online Surveys
• Questionnaire Design
• Questionnaires in Usability Engineering
  (focus on Likert)
• Field Methods (PDF)

• Group B: Interviewing
  
• Individual Interviews
  
• Unstructured Individual Interviews
  
• Semi-Structured Interviews
• Ethnographic Interviews (PDF)
  

Tuesday:

• Martin & Chris
  Topic: Survey & Questionnaire Design
  
• Ben & Dana
  Topic: Interviewing
  

Thursday:

Group meetings with Blair

8) Oct 20

Assignment 1:8 - due Tuesday - please see the group page to determine your review group :

• Group A: Focus Groups
• Basics of Conducting Focus Groups
• Focus groups - how to run them
• The Use and Misuse of Focus Groups
• Wealth of Information or Waste of Resources (PDF)

• Group B:Task Analysis
  
• Overview of Task Analysis (now a PDF)
• Task analysis overview from a psychology perspective of HCI practices
• Understanding HCI: What is Task Analysis
• Methods of Cognitive Analysis for HCI
• Task analysis in human-computer interaction — supporting action regulation theory by simulation (PDF)

Tuesday:

• Thanh & Matt
  Topic: Focus Groups
  
• Mike & Tony
  Topic: Task Analysis

9) Oct 27

Tuesday & Thursday

Phase 2-Requirements: Doc and Presentations

Assignment 1:9 - due Tuesday - please see the group page to determine your review group :

• Group A:Usability Testing
• Learn about usability testing
• Cost of User Testing a website
• Guerilla Facilitation
• A Quick, Cheap, and Effective Method (PDF)

• Group B:Cognitive Walkthrough
  
• Usability Evaluation with the Cognitive Walkthrough
• Cognitive Walkthrough
• Tiresias Cognitive Walkthrough
• Prototype and Evaluate Dynamic
  Menu Interfaces (PDF)

Tuesday:

• Peter & Dave
  Topic: Usability Testing
  
• Razieh & Lutful
  Topic: Cognitive Walkthrough
  

Thursday:

Group meetings with Blair

Assignment 1:10 - due Tuesday - please see the group page to determine your review group :

• Group A:Accessibility and UCD
• UXpod: Accessibility- An Interview with Dr. Sofia Celic
• Just Ask: Personas
• Approaches to Web Accessibility -Only read from "Approaches to Web Accessibility" to "Understand the Vital Role of Guidelines"
• The relationship between accessibility and usability of websites

• Group B:Accesibility Evaluation
• Conducting an Accessibility Evaluation
• Evaluating Web Site Accessibility: A Seven Step Process
• Evaluating for Accessibility
• A Retrospective... (PDF)

Assignment 1:11 - due Thursday

• Group A:Agile UCD
• Agile Development In 30 Seconds
• Introduction to Agile Usability
• Agile Usability Engineering
• Managing UCD Within Agile Projects (PDF)
• Probing an Agile Usability Process (PDF)

• Group B:Web Log Analysis
• Web Log Analysis: Who's Doing What, When?
• Back to Basics - Web Log Analysis
• Web Server Log Analysis Tools and Tips
• Web Usage Mining to Evaluate the Transfer of Learning in a Web-Based Learning Environment (PDF)
  

Tuesday:

• Julia & Tyler
  Topic: Accessibility and UCD
  
• Chris & Owen
  Topic: Accessibility Evaluation
  
  

Thursday:

• Garrett & Kyle
  Topic: Agile UCD
  
• Daniel & Somasundaram
  Topic: Web Log Analysis
  

Assignment 1:12 - due Tuesday (note: your marks will be taken from the best 8)

• Groups A&B: Mental Models
• Mental Models and Usability
• Mental models by Mads Soegaard
• Information architecture: webpage mental maps emerge
• A Mental Model Can Help with Learning to Operate a Complex Device(PDF)

Tuesday:

• Dan
  Topic: Mental Models
  

Tuesday: group meetings with Blair

Thursday: Phase 3:Prototype Presentations

Tuesday: Phase 3:Prototype Presentations (cont) & Doc

Phase 4 - ACM Submission - due Dec. 4