Department of Information Technology
Human Computer Interaction
(ITSD 4303)
Fall 2007
GENERAL INFORMATION
Instructor: E-Mail/Website/Phone:
Jon A Preston jonpreston (at) clayton.edu
678-466-4415
Office/office hours: Class Hours/Location:
UC 306 Tue, Thu 3 pm-4:15 pm (UC 314)
Tue, Thu 4:30pm-7:30pm CRN: 86108
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Prerequisite |
ITFN3314; ITFN3134; ITFN3601; ITFN2411; and ITFN2211 or
ITFN2511 |
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Co-requisite |
None |
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Prerequisite For |
None |
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Offered in
Semester |
Fall |
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Credit Hours |
3 Hrs (2-2-3) |
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Contact Hours |
3 Hours/week |
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
Fundamentals of human-machine interfaces, both cognitive and physical. Learning styles and effects of short-term memory on cognition and reaction will affect hardware and software development. Students will design a prototype interface.
TEXTBOOK/REFERENCES
The Design of Everyday Things by Norman (Currency Doubleday, 1988)
COURSE OUTCOMES
Students are expected to refine their mastery of software development and interface design skills to a proficient level as they apply them to device analysis and programming projects. Students will attain a maturing level of skills with regard to cognition (1, 6), learning styles and mental models (4), hardware (2) and software interface development, and error avoidance techniques (3). Students will demonstrate the ability to integrate knowledge of programming and software development in a final interface design and development project (7, 12). In addition to working independently on device analysis tasks (5, 8, 9, 10, 11), students will develop communication skills via in-class presentations about their device analysis.
Objectives
Students coming out of this class will have understanding of:
TOPICAL OUTLINE
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Week |
Topic |
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1 - 4 |
Design of Everyday Things |
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5 |
Test 1 |
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6 |
Portable and Game Interfaces |
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7 |
Wearable Computing |
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8 |
Locus of Attention |
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9 |
Agent Design |
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10 |
Future Computing Interfaces |
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11 |
Universal Design |
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12 |
Task Analysis |
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13 |
Test 2 |
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14 - 16 |
Research Paper and
Final Project |
ASSIGNMENTS
GRADING
No MAKEUP or ALTERNATE exams are expected in this course. Arrangements
must be made IN ADVANCE if for some valid reason allowed by the university you
cannot take an exam at the scheduled time. Examples of such reason could be a
medical emergency (with valid documentation).
Projects 25% (5% each)
In-class Presentation 5%
Final Project 20%
Research Paper 20%
Tests and Quizzes: 30% (15% each)
As a general
guideline for letter grade, following table will be used:
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Letter Grade |
Percentage |
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A |
90-100% |
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B |
80-89% |
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C |
70-79% |
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D |
60-69% |
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F |
Below 60% |
Please be advised that no credit will be given for late assignments. If you have a problem that arises during the course of the semester, please contact me as soon as possible.
Midterm Grade
Given the schedule and when midterm falls (see schedule), the first 2 projects and the first test will be graded; thus 25% of your overall grade will be determined by midterm.
PORTFOLIO
Since this course has you build solutions that demonstrate your knowledge of core-IT skills, I advise you to keep a copy of everything you submit to be later placed into your portfolio. This portfolio is a requirement for the ITFN2001 and ITFN4003 course, and if you keep a copy of your submitted solutions, you will be more easily able to fill this portfolio showing your work and IT skills.
ACADEMIC STANDARDS and ATTENDANCE
Students are expected to uphold the school's standard of conduct relating to academic honesty. Students assume full responsibility for the content and integrity of the academic work they submit. The guiding principle of academic integrity shall be that a student's submitted work, examinations, reports, and projects must be that of the student's own work. Students shall be guilty of violating the honor code if they:
1. Represent the work of others as their own.
2. Use or obtain unauthorized assistance in any academic work.
3. Give unauthorized assistance to other students.
4. Modify, without instructor approval, an examination, paper, record, or report for the purpose of obtaining additional credit.
5. Misrepresent the content of submitted work.
The penalty for violating the honor code is severe. Any student violating the honor code is subject to receive a failing grade for the course and will be reported to the Office of Student Affairs. If a student is unclear about whether a particular situation may constitute an honor code violation, the student should meet with the instructor to discuss the situation.
Students must abide by policies in the University Catalog, Student Handbook, and if applicable, program handbook. Academic misconduct will not be tolerated.
Students should read and understand the Basic Student Responsibilities policy posted at
http://adminservices.clayton.edu/registrar/BasicUndergraduateStudentResponsibilities.doc. These responsibilities should be considered part of this class syllabus and should be adhered to.
Students must activate their CCSU email account and are expected to check their email on a regular basis
Religious Observance
Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class and/or exam should notify the instructor at least two weeks in advance and discuss acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence.
All students at CCSU are required
to state that they have on-demand access to a notebook computer that meets the
recommended hardware/software specifications that have been established by
Students with disabilities who require reasonable accommodations need to register with Disability Services (DS) in order to obtain their accommodations. You can contact them at 678-466-5445 or disabilityservices@clayton.edu. If you are already registered with DS and are seeking accommodations for this course, please make an appointment with your instructor to discuss your specific accommodation needs for this course and provide your accommodations letter.
Instructor Assessment
In this course
you will have the opportunity to evaluate the instructor. This will be done
electronically through the following website, but should be done when the
instructor informs you.
All students in an IT, CS, or other IT-taught course have access to free software from Microsoft (Operating Systems, Visual Studio, Visio, Access, Project, OneNote) but not Word/Excel/PowerPoint/
The site for our MSDNAA access is https://msdn06.e-academy.com/clayton_it/
Students log in using their full CSU email address, and the system can email them their passwords (we do not have access to their passwords). As always, students can download the software or order CDroms (for a nominal shipping fee).
If you have logged into MSDNAA and downloaded an ISO file (for example, Visual Studio 2005 Professional), you may not know what to do with such a file once acquired.
You can use Roxio or Nero or some other CD/DVD burning tool if you have one to burn this ISO to disc (don’t just copy the file to the disc – you need to process it first), but if you don’t have software to handle ISO files or don’t want to use a CD/DVD burner, you can use a free program called ISORecorder.
ISORecorder extracts ISO file contents to a directory on your hard drive (similar to a ZIP extraction program); from there, you could run the SETUP file to install the needed software.
To get ISORecorder, search the internet, or go download the XP (sp2) version at http://cims.clayton.edu/jpreston/ISORecorderV2B2.zip
COURSE COORDINATOR
Jon A Preston
Email: jonpreston (at) clayton.edu