CPSC 681 Research Methodologies in HCI Saul Greenberg, Instructor

Contents

Lesson Plans

Organizational meeting (one hour)

Materials:

• handouts describing the course

Agenda

• Introduce self and course (briefly)
• Round-table: who, where from, current interests, why you are taking this course, what you want from it
• Class time: Monday, 12:30-3:30
• Go through handouts
• • location on web
  • course description
  • background readings + access to my library + HCI bibliography
  • • bring sample books in
  • readings for the course + methodologies
  • • the set will change!
    • any other methodologies to be included?
    • people's expertise in them (knowledge, application...)
  • assessment
  • • role of participation
    • topic (show template)
    • project + variations + selection (mention PanCanadian, software to support methodology, etc)
  • schedule
• Assign readings for next week + discussion leaders for each paper
• Questions? Opportunities?

First class

Readings

• all of General discussions of methodologies

Materials

• presentation on general methodologies

Agenda

• Review status on topic and project selection
• Saul: Introduce issues in methodologies
• Students: Go through each reading.

Second class

Readings

• Ethics
• Experimental methodologies, excluding Sagat

Materials

• presentation on controlled experiments
• Assignment 1 from 481 (given last week)
• Keyboard experiment

Agenda

• Review status on topic and project selection
• Students: Discuss ethics
• Saul: Introduce controlled experiments, up to t-tests
• Class: Do the keyboard experiment

Third class

Readings

• Experimental methodologies: Sagat
• Usability testing, up to but excluding video material

Materials

• presentation on controlled experiments:

Agenda

• Review status on topic and project selection
• Saul: data analysis of last weeks experiment
• Saul: controlled experiments: regression and Anova
• Class: Sagat
• Class: Usability testing

Last update January/97, by Saul Greenberg, Course Instructor