Course Schedule
| Project (Mondays) | Seminar (Tuesdays) | Methods (Thursdays) |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 19 No class. (University Holiday) | Jan 20 Introduction I Course structure, basic information, intro to HCI | Jan 22 Introduction II Course structure, basic information, history of HCI |
| Jan 26 Vibe Coding I | Jan 27 Research Fastforward Fast forwarding research topics in HCI as a field. How to read HCI papers? | Jan 29 Method Overview Positivism vs. interpretivism: Understanding truth in user research. |
| Feb 2 Vibe Coding II | Feb 3 Software Interaction GUIs, UI agents. | Feb 5 Needfinding Observation, formative study, semi-structured interviews, and ethnography. |
| Feb 9 IRB Training Attendance is mandatory. | Feb 10 Hardware Interaction Sensing, Haptics, & Physical Computing | Feb 12 Prototyping Low-Fidelity Prototyping, Sketching and Wizard of Oz (WOz) |
| Feb 16 Presidents' Day (University Holiday) | Feb 17 IRB Training (continued) Substitute Monday schedule | Feb 19 Qualitative I Heuristic Evaluation, Expert inspection methods, interview, think aloud. |
| Feb 23 Fast Prototyping with AI I | Feb 24 Guest Lecture I Fabrication and Tangible Interaction. By Yunyi Zhu (MIT). | Feb 26 Quantitative I Designing valid survey instruments (Likert scales) and basic descriptive statistics to measure attitudes at scale. |
| Mar 2 Fast Prototyping with AI II | Mar 3 Immersive Computing Virtual and Augmented Reality. Issues of presence, immersion, and 3D interaction techniques. | Mar 5 Psychophysics Measurement Fitts’ Law tasks, reaction time, and measuring physiological responses. |
| 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 Accessibility | Mar 19 Qualitative II Inductive/Deductive Coding, Thematic Analysis |
| Mar 23 Work on Project | Mar 24 AI for HCI Research LLM-as-a-judge, AI agent | Mar 26 Quantitative II Controlled Experiments, A/B tests and lab experiments. Hypothesis testing, independent/dependent variables, and T-tests/ANOVA. |
| Mar 30 Work on Project | Mar 31 Generative UI | 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 What is HCI, really? Rethinking HCI as a discipline. | Apr 9 Choosing Method When to use which methods? Holistic evaluation. |
| Apr 13 Work on Project | Apr 14 No class, preparing final projects (instructor at CHI 2026) | Apr 16 No class, preparing final projects (instructor at CHI 2026) |
| Apr 20 Patriots' Day (University Holiday) | Apr 21 CHI 2026 Recap | Apr 23 Final Presentations: Group A |
| Apr 27 N/A | Apr 28 Final Presentations: Group B | Apr 30 Final Presentations: Group C |