Course Schedule
Schedule are tentative and subject to change.
| Project (Mondays) | Seminar (Tuesdays) | Methods (Thursdays) |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 19 No class. (University Holiday) | Jan 20 Introduction I Course structure, basic information | Jan 22 Introduction II history of HCI, overview of HCI research areas |
| Jan 26 Class Cancelled | Jan 27 Interaction Techniques Sensing, Device, Hardware | Jan 29 Measurement Objective, Behavioral & Physiological Measures |
| Feb 2 Vibe Coding I | Feb 3 Ubiquitous Computing Internet of Things (IoT), Wearables, Smart Environments | Feb 5 Needfinding/Prototyping Needfinding, Interview, Low-Fi/Hi-Fi Prototyping, and Wizard of Oz (WOz) |
| Feb 9 Vibe Coding II | Feb 10 Interaction Design Gulf of Execution and Evaluation, Direct Manipulation vs Interface Agent | Feb 12 Qualitative I Inductive/Deductive Coding, Thematic Analysis (HW1 Release) |
| Feb 16 Presidents' Day (University Holiday) | Feb 17 IRB Training I Substitute Monday schedule, attendance is mandatory | Feb 19 Qualitative II Heuristic Evaluation, Grounded Theory, Ethnography. |
| Feb 23 IRB Training (continued) Attend if not completed on Feb 17 | Feb 24 Snow Day Class cancelled. | Feb 26 Guest Lecture Fabrication and Tangible Interaction. By Yunyi Zhu (MIT). (HW1 Due) |
| Mar 2 Fast Prototyping with AI Tools | Mar 3 Research Ideation Finding research gaps, generating research questions, literature review. Expectation of final project. | Mar 5 Quantitative I A/B testing, likert scales, usability metrics. (Proposal Due) |
| Mar 9 Spring Recess (no class) | Mar 11 Spring Recess (no class) | Mar 13 Spring Recess (no class) |
| Mar 16 Work on Project | Mar 17 Human Augmentation Augmenting human capabilities with HCI and AI. | Mar 19 Quantitative II Hypothesis testing, independent/dependent variables, and T-tests/ANOVA |
| Mar 23 Work on Project | Mar 24 AI and Creativity Creativity support with AI. Guest talk from Eric Chen | Mar 26 LLM-as-a-judge Using LLMs to simulate human evaluation for HCI studies. |
| Mar 30 Work on Project | Mar 31 Immersive Interaction AR/VR/MR, Spatial Computing, 3D Interfaces. | Apr 2 Crowdsourcing Using platforms (like MTurk or Prolific) for large-scale data labeling and evaluation. Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation. LLM evaluation. |
| Apr 6 Work on Project | Apr 7 Writing Paper How to write a good HCI paper. | Apr 9 Choosing Method When to use which methods? Holistic evaluation. |
| Apr 13 Work on Project | Apr 14 No class, preparing final projects | Apr 16 No class, preparing final projects |
| Apr 20 Patriots' Day (University Holiday) | Apr 21 Final Presentations | Apr 23 Final Presentations |
| Apr 27 N/A | Apr 28 Final Presentations | Apr 30 Final Presentations |