BTH740 Weekly Schedule 20113
BTH740 -- Weekly Schedule 20113
Week 1 - Sep 4
This Week
- Introduction - Everyday Things
- History of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Technological Change
- Donald Norman
- Usability
- Hall of Shame
- Introduction - Philosophy
- Ancient
- Modern
- Current
To Do
- Read Norman's Book
- Check out Hall of Shame and Fame
Week 2 - Sep 11
This Week
- Introduction - Cognitive Psychology
- Linguistics and Cognitive Science
- Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
Week 3 - Sep 18
This Week
- Cognitive Aspects - Thinking, Memory, and Emotions
- Thinking
- Early Model of Memory
- Working Memory
- Emotion
- Cognitive Aspects- Sensation, Perception, and Attention
- Vision
- Hearing
- Touch
- Motion
- Neuroscience
- Attention
- Potentiation
Week 4 - Sep 26
This Week
- Social Aspects - Language
- Variations
- Rendering Text
- Rendering Objects
- Internationalization and Localization
- Social Aspects - Culture
- Insensitivity
- Hofstede's Dimensions
- Critiques
Week 5 - Oct 2
This Week
- Social Aspects - Icons
- History
- Stylization
- Myths
- Meaning
- The Research Essay
- Class Notes - How to Write a Research Essay
To Do
- Form Teams
- Add Name to the Student List
- Add Project Page for your Team
Resources
Robertson, Hugh. The Research Essay. Ottawa, Paperhill, 2001
Week 6 - Oct 9
This Week
- Computers - Character Sets and Fonts
- Brief history of computers
- Character Sets
- ASCII
- EBCDIC
- ISO 8859
- UCS - ISO 10646
- Unicode
- Windows
- Fonts
- Glyphs
- Typography
- Computers - Devices
- Character Entry
- Display
To Do
- work on selecting a project thesis
Resources
Week 7 - Oct 16
This Week
- Computers - Devices (continued)
- Display
- Printing
- Pointing
- Physical
- Computers - Memory and Processing
- Mid-Term test
- open laptop
- multiple choice
- short word questions
- two full periods
To Do
- review course notes and videos
- work on selecting a project thesis
- sign up for proposal presentation
Resources
Week 8 - Oct 30
This Week
- Proposal Presentations
- Computers - Memory and Processing
- processing (continued)
- networking
- design considerations