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Week 1: What's in an Interface

Date	Type	Details	Learning Goal
4/1	Monday	Why take this course? What is HCI?
	Lecture	Introduction to course	Relevance of class to all of CS
4/3	Wednesday	Basic Structure of Interaction
	Reading (10 min)	Chapter 1: Introduction from {{site.hcibook}}	Structure of course; History of interface innovation
	Reading (10 min)	Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles	Getting up to speed on Android
	Preparation (10-20 min)	Get up to speed on Android	Download Android Studio and follow this tutorial to create an Android Application. Continue with the tutorial to also run your app either on an emulator or on your phone. Here is additional information on android studio setup
	Reading Quiz	On Canvas, due night before
	Exercise Assigned	Doodle	Getting up to speed on Android; Basics of drawing on the screen
	Lecture	Core Toolkit Abstractions	Toolkit User Types; Basic structure of a user interfaces; Common interactors
4/4	Thursday	Introduction to Android (active)	Android project structure; Hello World
	Lecture	Hello World	Android
	For your reference	Doodle
	For your reference	Java Refresher
	For your reference	Git
4/5	Friday	Drawing on the Screen (active)
	Reading (10 min)	Chapter 2 from Drawing from {{site.hcibook}}	Basic drawing abstractions
	Reading Quiz	On Canvas, due night before
	Lecture	Drawing	drawing abstractions; clipping and other transformations
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Week 2: Output it to me

Date	Type	Details	Learning Goal
4/8	Monday	Drawing Interfaces: MVC and Component Hierarchies
	Lecture	Drawing & Animation	Deeper understanding of Views, Bitmaps Canvas, Paths and Animation
4/10	Wednesday	Layout
	Optional Reading (10 min)	Layouts (Overview) and Building a Responsive UI	Android's approach to layout
	Lecture	Layout	Relating layout to the interactor hierarchy
	Exercise Due	Doodle
4/11	Thursday	Layout Exercise Assigned
	Exercise Assigned	Layout	Implementing layout using GUI and programmatic abstractions
	Lecture	Layout in Android	Android specific layout information
4/12	Friday	Properties of People I: Visual Perception
	Required Reading (10 mins)	Chapter 5 through p. 128: Layout and Constraints	Abstractions for positioning interactors on the screen and making responsive interfaces
	Reading Quiz	On Canvas, due night before
	Lecture	Properties of People I: Vision	Design implications of people's visual capabilities
	Peer-Grading Due	Peer grading assignments for Doodle are due at 11:59 PM
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Week 3: Interact With Me

| Date | Type | Details | Learning Goal| |-----|--------|-------------------------------| |4/15|Monday|Event Handling I: Input Devices, Events and Event Delivery| ||Lecture|Event Handling| How events are dispatched to interactors| |4/17|Wednesday|MVC at the Interactor Level Essential Geometry and Essential Behavior| ||Required Reading (10 min)|Chapter 3: Event Handling {{site.hcibook}} pp. 43-52 (on Input Events); 59-63 (Listeners)| Basics of event handling including event types and listeners ||Reading Quiz|On Canvas, due tuesday night| ||Lecture| Essential Behavior: Finite State Machines| Essential Behavior and the use of final state machines to implement it | |4/18|Thursday|Build your own Interactor exercise| ||Exercise Due|Layout| ||Exercise Assigned|Color Picker| Handle input; Create a non-rectangular interactor; Implement a finite state machine |4/19|Friday|Finite State Machines| ||Required Reading|Chapter 11: Input Syntax Specification {{site.hcibook}}| Essential Behavior and the use of final state machines to implement it | ||Optional Reading|Custom View Components| ||Reading Quiz|On Canvas, due night before| ||Lecture|Essential Geometry and View Update| Toolkit abstractions for responding to events {: .small #small .schedule #schedule}

Week 4: Tell me all about it

| Date | Type | Details | Learning Goal| |-----|--------|-------------------------------| |4/22|Monday|Motor Control| ||Lecture|Properties of People II: Motor Control| Motor behavior basics and implications for design including Fitts' law and Guiard's theory of bimanual input | | Coe In-class assessment 11-11:20am | | Give us feedback about the class! |4/24|Wednesday|Predicting and Evaluating Interactor Efficiency| ||Required Reading|Chapter 20: Selection Theory (Fitts law & Steering law sections; STANDARD MENUS section; IMPROVING MENUS section; MARKING MENUS section)| Introduction of Fitts law; Introduction to Pie and Marking Menus | |Exercise Due|Color Picker| | |Lecture|Predicting and Evaluating Interactor Efficiency| Apply design tips we've discussed to comparing the efficiency of different variations on interactors; Learn about wide variety of solutions for selection; Learn about Qualitative and Quantitative ways of testing theories| |4/25|Thursday|Implementing App for user study| ||Assignment| Menus| Test which menu is better: Marking menu or Standard Menu |4/26|Friday|Introduction to 3D printing| ||Lecture|3D Printing Intro|Learn basics of 3D printing, print the model you created in preparation for class | {: .small #small.schedule #schedule}

Week 5: Making more of your phone

Date	Type	Details	Learning Goal
4/29	Monday	3D Modeling
	Preparation	Install OpenScad	Prepare to 3D model using code!
	Preparation	Try customizing a nametag	Download a 3D model
	Lecture	Introduction to OpenSCAD/3D modeling	Learn about how to create a custom 3D model in OpenSCAD
5/1	Wednesday	Running Human Subjects Experiments	Requirements for running experiments with participants
	Lecture	Quantitative Study Design/Running	Understand concepts in data pipeline in an applied fashion including what is our hypothesis, how this translates into study design and method, considerations when interacting with users, data collection cleaning and analysis, some statistical methods, and how we draw conclusions
	Assignment Part 1 Due	Menus Programming
5/2	Thursday	Finalize and print your projects
	Required safety training before class	Mill safety training	All UW students are required to complete the user agreement and safety training online annually. You will need to swipe to verify you’ve completed this on every entry.
5/3	Friday
	Lecture	Midterm Review	Overview of first 5 weeks of the quarter
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Week 6: Accessibility

Date	Type	Details	Learning Goal
5/6	Monday	Accessibility
	Lecture	Slides Video	Guest lecture by Tracy Tran. Learn about accessibility
5/8	Wednesday
	Assignment Part 2 Due	Menus Data	Collect data from users
5/9	Thursday	Accessibility Exercise
		In-class demo of accessibility	Learning about how to check accessibility and use a screen reader on your phone
	Lecture	Lab slides	Overview of first 5 weeks of the quarter
	Exercise Assigned	Accessibility
5/10	Friday
	Midterm	In-class
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Week 7: Undo it please

| Date | Type | Details | Learning Goal| |-----|--------|-------------------------------| | 5/13|Monday | Application Design || ||Lecture|Application Design Principals| Mental models, gulf of execution, gulf of evaluation | | 5/15|Wednesday | Undo || || Exercise Due | Accessibility | | || Assignment Assigned: | Undo| | ||Lecture|Undo| Theory and implementation of Undo | | 5/16|Thursday | Getting started with Undo || ||Lecture|Undo lab| | | 5/17 |Friday | Heuristic Evaluation | ||Lecture|Heuristic Evaluation| Learn about a quick way to get feedback on the quality of your application, particularly good for focused tasks on screens. {: .small #small .schedule #schedule}

Week 8: There's a world out there!

| Date | Type | Details | Learning Goal| |-----|--------|-------------------------------| | 5/20 |Monday | Context Awareness | ||Lecture|The Physical Phone| Assumptions about phone use and examples of context aware applications | | 5/20 | Tuesday | ||Assignment: Undo Due|Undo| | 5/21 |Wednesday | Midterm Recap | ||Lecture|Midterm Recap|| ||Lecture|Phone Sensing|| | 5/22 | | Passive Data Collection on the Phone | ||Undo Heuristic Eval Due|Section| | 5/24 | | Augmented Reality on the Phone | ||Reading Quiz Undo| | Reading quiz on undo material. We did not assign a reading and you can do this quiz without reading, but Chapter 16 is optional reading for this module | ||Lecture|AR|| {: .small #small .schedule #schedule}

Week 9: Putting it in context

Date	Type	Details	Learning Goal
5/27	Memorial Day**	No Class
	Assignment: Context Awareness I	Sensing
	Assignment: Context Awareness II (Group)	Context Awareness
5/29	Wednesday	Sensing Assignment
	Lecture	Sensing Assignment	Description of some key things you need to do to implement Sensing, discussion of the context awareness assignment
5/30
5/31
	Lecture	Behavior Change	Discussion of behavior-change interfaces, which frequently use mobile device.
	Assignment Due: Context Awareness I	Sensing
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Week 10: I think therefore I am

Date	Type	Details	Learning Goal
6/3	Lecture	In-class group work	Please make every effort to attend. Group work to help you make progress on your final project & class evaluations.
6/5	Lecture	Machine Learning on Mobile Devices	Basic logic behind machine learning and some of the relevant risks
6/6	Lab	Group work and help	Please make every effort to attend. Group work requires in person time and coordination.
6/7	Lecture TBD	Final exam review
	Assignment Due: Context Awareness II (Group)	Context Awareness
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Final exam

6/10, 8:30-10am in CSE2 G10