Students are required to participate extensively in literature research and discussions.
Students will be expected to:
- Read required readings ahead of the class meeting every week and prepare half a page of questions and interesting points for discussion; upload these comments by Tuesday at midnight onto this website; on the proceeding day, select a few of your classmates entries to respond to. Please submit these comments by Wednesday at Midnight. Some topics to write about:
- What is this week’s paradigm of HCI good for? not good for? where will we likely see it, use it?
- What are the hard challenges that have to be overcome to make this paradigm for HCI practical?
- How likely is it that researchers will overcome these challenges?
- What do you like, dislike about this approach? about the papers you read? Include pointers to some other interesting work in this area.
- These are just examples and do not be limited by them.
- Participate actively in the weekly discussions; present 3 papers/systems in class which you have found outside of the class list, bringing your own original contribution to the class discussion.
- Review and present 3 optional papers in class.
- Design 3 original projects (one for each of the class themes) and present these in class on 3/5, 4/16 and 5/14; these projects can be collaborative.
- Complete a 2 page paper for the first two of these projects and submit each paper on the day of the presentation. The 3rd project will be accompanied by a 4 page paper.
The class is limited to 18 graduate students based on their interests and backgrounds. Permission from the instructor is required.
Students will be graded based on
- the quality and originality of the 3 projects they design and the papers they write about them (50%);
- the weekly 1/2 page of questions and comments in reactions to the required readings (30%);
- participation in the class discussions (20%).
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