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: Wed, 9-12:00 (Place TBA)
- Go through handouts
- location on web
- course description
- background readings + access to my library + HCI bibliography
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- 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 Smart, Pilot expt, thesis work, 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
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