Course Syllabus 
 

Week: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16
(schedule is tentative)

Week 1

          Introduction                           Shneiderman Chapters 1 & 3

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

Input/Output Devices               Shneiderman Chapter 9
• Types of Devices 
• Guidelines for Use 
• Examples 

Interaction Styles                    Shneiderman Chapter 6, 7, & 8
• Question and Answer 
• Form Filing 
• Command Language 
• Natural Language 
• Menu 
• Direct Manipulation 
• Other 

Week 3

Designing User Interfaces             Shneiderman Chapters 10
• Goals 
• Human Engineering 
• Human Performance Goals 
• Human Factors 

Week 4 

Interface Analysis 
• Task Analysis 
• User Characteristics Analysis 
• Task and Job Design 
• Task Allocation to Human vs. Computer 
• Workload Analysis 

Week 5 

Guidance and error handling           Shneiderman Chapter 11 & 12 

Specification                                 Shneiderman Chapter 5
• Behavioral Models 
• Constructional Models 
• Prototyping 

Week 6 

Visual Design                               Shneiderman Chapter 2
• Principles 
• Practices 
• Guidelines 
• Standards 
• Tools 
• Screen design 
• Color
• Icons

Windowing strategies                   Shneiderman Chapter 13

Evaluation of user interfaces          Shneiderman Chapter 4
• Evaluation methods 
• Usability

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
• Architectures
• Windowing systems 
• Emerging standards 

Week 13

Special Topics(These topics may be discussed earlier as appropriate)
• Web User Interfaces                  Shneiderman  Chapter 16
• Web Site Usability
• Information Visualiztion                                   Chapter 15
• Real-Time User Interfaces
• Computer Supporeted Cooperative Work           Chapter 14
• Multimedia UI 
• UI Software Cost Estimating
• Baby Face (small screen) UI
• Social Issues                              Shneiderman  Afterward

Week 14

Prepare for Project Presentations

Week 15

Project Presentations

Week 16

Final Examination