BTH740 Weekly Schedule 20113

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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

1. Read Norman's Book
2. 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

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

Week 8 - Oct 30

This Week

• Proposal Presentations