Instructor

Ming Yin

Office: DSAI 3045
Email: mingyin [AT] purdue.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment

Teaching Assistant

Amy Rechkemmer
Email: arechke [AT] purdue.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-3pm, DSAI B063

Xiaoni Duan
Email: duan79 [AT] purdue.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2pm, DSAI B063

Course Description

The goal of this course is to teach students how to design useful and usable interactive systems. This course is highly interactive and project-based. Topics that will be covered in the course include user-centered design lifecycle and basic principles, how to gather, analyze and present data for interaction design, how to account for human's cognitive, social, affective, and behavior issues during the design, etc.

Course Schedule

See the calendar page.

Grading

• Participation: 5%
• Weekly individual/team task: 65% (5% each week for 13 weeks)
• Project milestones: 30% (Milestone 0: 2%, Milestone 1-3: 6% each, Milestone 4: 10%)

Project

This course is centered around a semester-long, team-based project. Through this project, students will get first-hand experience of applying user-centered design principles and methods in creating a high-fidelity prototype of an interactive system that aims at solving a real-world problem.

The keyword for this year's HCI course project is learning in a new era. Students are asked to indentify the new challenges posed by this fast-paced, information-rich, AI-integrated era to the ways people learn--what, when, where, and how they acquire information, knowledge and skills--and designing prototypes of interactive systems that enhance learning in this evolving landscape.

Students will be asked to form teams of 3-5 to complete the course project together. The course is structured in a way that in each week, individual students and/or the team is asked to complete some project-related tasks. Completing these tasks in a timely fashion will ensure that the team's design progress is on track and can deliver project milestones on time. Students will be asked to submit the oucome of these tasks either via BrightSpace or record them in their design journal. Here is a tentative list of weekly tasks:

• Week 2: Individual project ideas
• Week 3: Form project team and create design journal
• Week 4: Complete ethics training and draft interview protocol
• Week 5: Revised interview protocol and first-round interviews
• Week 6: Second-round interviews and interview analysis
• Week 7: Initial design ideas via storyboarding
• Week 8: Paper prototype initial version
• Week 9: Paper prototype qualitative evaluation protocol
• Week 10: Spring break
• Week 11: Paper prototype qualitative evaluation and revision
• Week 12: High-fidelity prototype initial version
• Week 13: High-fidelity prototype cognitive walkthrough
• Week 14: Draft quantiative evaluation protocol
• Week 15: Conduct quantiative evaluation with target users and analyze results

The teaching team will remind students of the weekly tasks via the Ed discussion form. These weekly tasks will be graded on completeness.

In addition, each team is asked to submit five project milestones:

• Milestone 0: Project team and topic
• Milestone 1: Needfinding deliberable
• Milestone 2: Low-fidelity prototype deliverable
• Milestone 3: High-fidelity prototype deliverable
• Milestone 4: Project video and final report

More detailed instructions on project milestones can be found in the guidelines for each milestone.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required for this course. Knowledge with web/mobile programming and software engineering is welcome.

Textbook

The primary text of the class is:

• H. Sharp, J. Preece, Y. Rogers (2015). Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. John Wiley & Sons.