Assignments and Readings

• Assignments and Readings
  

  Assignments and Readings

  
  

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    Week 1

  • Assignment 1 SUBMISSION DL Mon 18 23:55

    Submit as a PDF

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    Week 2

  • Assignment 2: Background Research Page
  • • Readings
      • Personas practice and theory.pdf259.8KB
      • Scenario-Based_Design.pdf297.8KB
      • Scenarios in HCI.pdf512.9KB
      • Scenarios_in_UCD.pdf340KB
      • User_analysis.pdf233.9KB

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  • Assignment 2 SUBMISSION (DL Monday 18.55)
  • OPTIONAL revised design problem for comments DL Friday 23:55 Assignment
  • Feedback Page
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    Weeks 3-4

  • ASSIGNMENT 3: Revised User Research (DL Mon 23:55) (click for info)
  • • Readings for Assignment 3
      • Inferring Design Implications from Data - Jon Kolko.pdf493.1KB
      • Requirements Elicitation in Software Engineering - Hickey.pdf738.5KB

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  • ASSIGNMENT 4: Task and Design Space (DL Mon Feb 8 18:55) (click for more info)
  • Paper on Environment Analysis (Ronkainen et al. 2010) File PDF document
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    Week 5

    If you can only do one, do Assignment 5b.

  • Assignment 5a: SUBMIT revised problem definition (DL Mon 23:55)
  • Assignment 5b: SUBMIT Sketches for peer-review & COMMENT (DL Sun 23:55) Workshop
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    Week 6

  • Assignment 6 SUBMISSION (DL Mon 22 23:55)
  • Boedker-Three-waves-of-HCI File PDF document
  • Grudin-three-faces-of-HCI File PDF document
  • Bannon 2011 - Reimagining HCI File PDF document
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    Week 7

  • Assignment 7: Instructions + Submission (DL Feb 29 23:55)
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    Week 8

  • Assignment 8 (DL Mar 7 23:55)

    Continue modeling. Move on to optimization if possible. The objectives are 1) to get a first idea on what are the pros and cons of your candidate designs, perhaps leading to filtering them and 2) identify research problems. Follow instructions given in the meeting. Send your final report of this chapter by Monday (23:55). 

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    Weeks 9-10

  • Example: Katri's SDP-based analysis from A8 File PDF document

    Example numerical modeling report

  • Assignment 9 SUBMISSION (DL Mon 14 23:55)

    Complete your modeling assignment. Use a model or theory to analyze design alternatives and propose a solution. Write up a report : This could be part of your research report. As discussed in the course, both numerical and conceptual analyses are possible. 

  • Assignment 10: SUBMISSION (DL Mon 21 23:55)

    Literature Search Part I

    Following instructions given on the lecture slide, find 3-10 relevant papers and write up your Related Work / Previous Work section. The outcome must be a piece of text that could be in your research report. To learn about format, structure, and style, please read this guidance: Link 1 (see slide "Related Work"), Link 2. Submit as a PDF. 

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    Week 11

  • Assignment 11: Research plan v1 (DL Mon 28: 23:55) (CLICK for info)
  • Readings from the lecture (optional background)

  • HCI as problem-solving File PDF document
  • Alvesson-2011 AMR Generating research questions through problematizing File PDF document
  • Introduction to empirical methods in HCI URL

    A course at CHI 2016

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    Week 12-13

  • Assignment 12: Submission (DL April 4th 23:55)

    Submit detailed research plan with method description. Instructions:

    • Structure and contents: Follow suggestions in the paper assigned to you.
    • Template: Use the familiar research paper template. 
    • Write this to Method / Approach (whichever you find more descriptive)
    • If you have multiple research topics, you can split it to subsections. 

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  • Assignment 13: Submission (DL April 11, 23:55)

    Final version of research plan

  • Researcher contacts (Optional) Page
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    Self-study period

  • Discussion Forum

    Questions and discussion 

  • Links for data-analysis Page
  • Optional pre-pre-submission of final deliverable: DL May 2: 23:55. Submit per email to Antti for comments.

    Optional pre-submission of final deliverable: DL May 9: 23:55. Submit per email to Antti for comments.
    

    
    

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    Final deliverable

  • Scientific paper: See Lecture16 slides for instructions.

    Pitch: 2 minutes, 1 slide. See this link for more tips. 

    Submission deadline for paper and pitch slide May 16 (23:55; hard): per email to Antti.