Schedule

Date	Class Activity	Comments
January 8	Organizational meeting discuss content and student responsibilities confirm class time verify preparation of students describe assignments	Initial readings assigned Project: start thinking about your team
January 17	General discussion of methodologies	Topic: narrow down topic and discuss with Saul Project: narrow down problem and discuss with Saul
January 24	Ethics of studies User observations: Controlled Experiments Hands-on exercise: Comparing keyboards	Topic: choose topic Project: prepare problem statement
January 31	Controlled Experiments continued, User observations Hands-on exercise: Clavis	Project: problem statement due work on detailed description
February 7	User observations Use of Video Hands-on exercise: Clavis discussion
February 14	Interface inspection: Heuristic Evalution	Project: detailed description due; prepare pilot
February 21	Family day on Monday Interface inspection: Walkthroughs Interim presentation on project	Topic: major draft due Project: run pilot
February 28	Prototyping	Topic: final report due Project: pilot study due
March 7	Reading Week, no classes	Project: prepare and run main study
March 14	Ecological Interface Design (Kim Vicente, University of Toronto)	Project: prepare and run main study
March 21	Ecological Interface Design (on the Monday)	Project: prepare and run main study
March 28	CHI Conference No class.	Project: should start analyzing data, interpret results, etc
April 4	Contextual Inquiry
April 11	Design Ethnography (Tony Salvador, Intel)
April 18	Project presentations	Project: Final report due