Reading Schedule

Updated: October 23, 2018

Week 1

Tue. 10/23 | Introductions

• READ: Our Syllabus
• READ: Design Docs

Thur. 10/25 | Human Abilities + Visual Design

There may be a quiz on this material. This is true for all future readings.

• DUE: Good/Bad Design
• READ (80+ slides): Human Abilities
• READ: Learning to See
• READ (14 pages): Excerpt from: Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”
• READ (1–1.5 hours): Chapters 1–6: The Non-Designer’s Design Book
• READ (7 min): How to Make Your Not-So-Great Visual Design Better
• READ (7 minutes): 3 ways to improve your visual design skills
• WATCH (7 min): The Universal Arts of Graphic Design

Week 2

Tuesday. 10/30 | Needfinding + Task analysis

• WATCH (12 minutes): Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway
• WATCH (4 minutes): EXAMPLE: Contextual Inquiry: Workforce Mobility
• WATCH (3 minutes): Insight Through Need-finding
• READ: Needfinding cheat sheet
• READ: Become Your Users
• READ: Task Analysis Tips
• READ: How to Understand Problems by Andy Ko
• READ: How to Define Problems by Andy Ko
• Read/Watch something else about Need finding, Task Analysis, or Contextual Inquiry

Prototyping + Ideation

• READ: How to be Creative by Andy Ko
• READ: Ideation Overview (don’t answer survey questions)
• READ: How to Prototype by Andy Ko
• READ (17 pages): The anatomy of sketching (Bill Buxton)
• READ (9 minutes): Why you should be prototyping (Netflix)
• Read/Watch something else about prototyping or ideation

Get Ready

• LOOK OVER: Design For Others Design Sprint
• Familiarize yourself with invision. See Slack for our free account code.

Thursday. 11/1 | Visual Design Project Cont.

• DUE: Design for Others Paper Prototypes
• WATCH (10 min): Jennifer Golbeck (TED Talk). The curly fry conundrum: Why social media “likes” say more than you might think
• WATCH (17 minutes): Scott Klemmer: Heuristic Evaluation - Why and How
• Familiarize yourself with invision. See Slack for our free account code.
• OPTIONAL: Google I/O 2013 - Cognitive Science and Design
• OPTIONAL: Bad typography has ruined more than just the Oscars

Week 3

Tuesday. 11/6 | Visualization + Design for Others Demo Day

• DUE: Design for Others Prototype (using inVision)]. MAKE SURE AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF YOUR GROUP HAS A LAPTOP TO RUN THE DEMO IN CLASS.

Thu. 11/8 | Data Visualization

• DUE: Design for Others Design Document
• WATCH (8 min): The Art of Data Visualization
• READ (80 slides): Data Visualization
• READ/WATCH: 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes | Accompanying Talk
• WEBSITE: Five Design Sheet Methodology for Visualization
• OPTIONAL: Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources

Week 4

Tue. 11/13 | Interactive Vis + Crowdsourcing + Social Psych

• DUE: Design for Understanding Prototype
• READ (22 slides): User Testing
• WATCH: Rocket Surgery Made Easy: Usability Demo (Steve Krug)
• READ: How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
• READ: HCI and Collective Intelligence (Jeff Bigham, Michael Bernstein, & Eytan Adar)
• OPTIONAL: Interactive Data Visualization Slides (BIG FILE 450MB!)

Thu. 11/15 | Conversational Interfaces

• READ (14 minutes): Technical and social challenges of conversational design
• READ (9 minutes): How to design a robust chatbot interaction
• READ: Conversation Design: Speaking the Same Language (Google)
• READ: HCI for Peace: A Call for Constructive Action
• OPTIONAL WATCH: Any talk from the HCI for Peace Conference

Week 5 / Thanksgiving

• PROTOTYPE: Design for Tension Prototype

Week 6

Tue. 11/27 | Affective Computing

• DUE: Design for Tension Final Chatbot
• IN CLASS: Intro to Affectiva (https://knowledge.affectiva.com/v3.3/docs/analyze-the-camera-stream-3)
• IN CLASS: Begin Design for Wellbeing module

Thu. 11/29 | Affective Computing Hack Day

Bring your laptops to work! If you’re planning on working with live video analysis, make sure at least one of your group members has a webcam. If needed, you can check webcams out from the Academic Technology Center.

• DUE: Design for Tension Design Reflection (individual)
• WATCH (~16 minutes): Rafael Calvo: Time for Technologies to Respect our Psychological Needs
• READ (short): We Need Computers with Empathy
• READ (short): Why you want your Drone to have Empathy
• READ (short): Affective Computing for HCI
• For Reference (Optional): Affective Computing by Kristina Höök