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Computer Science 588
 Specification and Design of User Interface Software
Fall 1998


Course Syllabus

Week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
(schedule is tentative)


Week 1
Newman Chapters 1 and 2
  • Course Overview
    • Course Objectives
    • Course Outline
    • Textbooks
    • Sources Information
      • Books
      • Journals
      • Conferences
      • Internet
    • Project
  • User Interface Overview
    • Definitions
    • Examples
    • Life cycles and Processes


Week 2
Newman Chapter 12
  • Input/Output Devices
    • Types of Devices
    • Guidelines for Use
    • Examples
  • Interaction Styles
    • Question and Answer
    • Form Filing
    • Command Language
    • Natural Language
    • Menu
    • Direct Manipulation
    • Other


Week 3
Newman Chapters 3 and 4
  • Designing User Interfaces
    • Goals
    • Human Engineering
    • Human Performance Goals
    • Human Factors


Week 4
Newman Chapters 5, 6, 13 and 14
  • Interface Analysis
    • Task Analysis
    • User Characteristics Analysis
    • Task and Job Design
    • Task Allocation to Human vs. Computer
    • Workload Analysis


Week 5
Newman Chapters 7 and 11
  • Specification
    • Behavioral Models
    • Constructional Models
    • Prototyping


Week 6
Newman Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 15
  • Visual Design
    • Principles
    • Practices
    • Guidelines
    • Standards
    • Tools
    • Screen design
    • Evaluation user interfaces


Week 7
Midterm

Week 8
  • User Interface Software Implementation
    • Dialogue Models
    • Development Tools
      • User Interface Management Systems
      • Interactive Development Tools
      • GUI Builders
      • Language Based Tools
      • Toolkits
      • Evaluating Tools


Week 9
Project Status

Week 10
Project Status II

Week 11
User Interface Software Implementation (Concluded)

Week 12
Software Development Environments for User Interfaces
  • Windowing systems
  • Emerging standards


Week 13
Special Topics
  • Real-Time User Interfaces
  • Computer Supporeted Cooperative Work
  • Multimedia UI Issues
  • WWW UI Issues


Week 14
Project Presentations

Week 15
Final Examination


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