6.831 User Interface Design and Implementation

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fall Semester, 2005

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Slides are available the morning before each lecture. Print them out only if you want to take notes on them. Lecture notes are available after the lecture. The lecture notes include pictures of the slides, so you don't need to print both.

Monday	Wednesday
Sep 5 (Labor Day)	Sep 7 L1: Introduction to Usability Lecture notes including slides
Sep 12 L2: User-Centered Design Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: The 1984 Olympic Message System: a test of behavioral principles of system design by John Gould et al. CACM, v30 n9, 1987.	Sep 14 L3: UI Software Architecture Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: A Description of the Model-View-Controller User Interface Paradigm in the Smalltalk-80 System by Glenn E. Krasner and Stephen T. Pope. JOOP, v1 n3, 1988.
Sep 19 (Holiday) No class	Sep 21 L4: Output Models Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: Glyphs: Flyweight Objects for User Interfaces by Paul R. Calder and Mark A. Linton. UIST '90.
Sep 26 L5: Human Capabilities Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: Beyond Fitts's law: models for trajectory-based HCI tasks by Johnny Accot and Shumin Zhai. CHI '97. Optional: Chapter 2: "The Human Information Processor", in The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, by Stuart Card, Thomas Moran, and Allen Newell, 1983.	Sep 28 L6: Input Models Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: A new model for handling input by Brad Myers. ACM TOIS, v8 n3, July 1990.
Oct 3 L7: Conceptual Models & Metaphors Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: The myth of metaphor by Alan Cooper. 1995. Optional: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.	Oct 5 L8: Design Principles Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: First Principles of Interaction Design by Bruce Tognazzini Ten Usability Heuristics by Jakob Nielsen The Case Against User Interface Consistency by Jonathan Grudin. CACM, v32 n10, October 1989. Optional: Chapter 5 in Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen.
Oct 10 (Holiday) No class	Oct 12 L9: Prototyping Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Prototyping for Tiny Fingers by Marc Rettig. CACM, v37 n4, April 1994. The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper. 1994.
Oct 17 L10: Declarative User Interfaces Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: UIML: An Appliance-Independent XML User Interface Language by Marc Abrams et al. WWW8, 1999. SUPPLE: automatically generating user interfaces by Krzysztof Gajos and Daniel S. Weld. IUI 2004.	Oct 19 Prototype Testing Day No readings
Oct 24 Quiz 1	Oct 26 No class
Oct 31 L11: Graphic Design Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Applying a theory of graphical presentation to the graphic design of user interfaces by Jock Mackinlay. UIST '88. Optional: Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano. Prentice Hall, 1995.	Nov 2 L12: GUI Builders Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Smoothly integrating rule-based techniques into a direct manipulation interface builder by Scott Hudson and Andrey Yeatts. UIST '91.
Nov 7 L13: Toolkits Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Past, present, and future of user interface software tools by Brad Myers, Scott Hudson, and Randy Pausch. ACM TOCHI, v7 n1, March 2000.	Nov 9 L14: Heuristic Evaluation Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Heuristic Evaluation by Jakob Nielsen. Read the first four pages: How to conduct a heuristic evaluation A list of ten recommended heuristics for usable interface design A more detailed discussion of the characteristics of the usability problems found by heuristic evaluation How to rate the severity of the usability problems Describing usability problems: are we sending the right message? by Joseph Dumas, Rolf Molich, and Robin Jeffries. interactions, v11 n4, July/August 2004.
Nov 14 L15: Animation Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: Animation: from cartoons to the user interface by Bay-Wei Chang and David Ungar. UIST '93.	Nov 16 L16: User Testing Slides only Lecture notes including slides Readings: Guidelines for user observation by Kathleen Gomoll & Anne Nicol, from User Observation: Guidelines for Apple Developers, January 1990.
Nov 21 L17: Output Models 2 Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Systematic output modification in a 2D user interface toolkit by Keith Edwards, Scott Hudson, Joshua Marinacci, Roy Rodenstein, Thomas Rodriguez, and Ian Smith. UIST '97. Revisiting visual interface programming: creating GUI tools for designers and programmers by Stephane Chatty et al. UIST 2004.	Nov 23 (Drop Date) L18: Predictive Evaluation Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: The GOMS family of user interface analysis techniques: comparison and contrast by Bonnie John and David Kieras. ACM TOCHI, v3 n4, December 1996.
Nov 28 L19: Undo Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: A selective undo mechanism for graphical user interfaces based on command objects by Thomas Berlage. ACM TOCHI, v1 n3, September 1994.	Nov 30 No class (GR5 demos)
Dec 5 L20: Experiment Design Slides only Lecture notes with slides Readings: Experimental methods for validating technology by Marvin Zelkowitz and Dolores Wallace. IEEE Computer, v31 n5, May 1998. Optional: "Methodology matters: doing research in the behavioral and social sciences" by Joseph E. McGrath, in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, R. M. Baecker and J. Grudin and W. A. S. Buxton, ed.	Dec 7 Quiz 2
Dec 12 L21: UI Research Survey No readings	Dec 14 Demo Day

6.831 User Interface Design and Implementation

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