Course Syllabus

Instructor

Robert J.K. Jacob
Dept. of Computer Science
Halligan Hall
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/

Teaching assistants

Our teaching assistants are:

  • Sam Chung (Woonyong.Chung (at) tufts.edu)
  • Emeka Oguike (Chukwuemeka.Oguike (at) tufts.edu)
  • Tianyang Ren (Tianyang.Ren (at) tufts.edu)
  • Hang Yu (Hang.Yu625917 (at) tufts.edu)

Office hours will be held online, the schedule will be shown in a pinned post on Piazza.

Textbooks: Recommended

J. Preece, H. Sharp, and Y. Rogers, Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, John Wiley and Sons (Latest edition)

B. Shneiderman and C. Plaisant, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. (Any recent edition)

Course work

Course work will consist mainly of projects in which students will design a small user interface, build a prototype, then test it for usability, and refine and study it. Classes will be a mix of online lectures and workshop sessions.

Grading

Based mainly on homework projects and in-class workshop projects; also on presentations and class discussion. In-class items cannot be made up if you miss them.

Prerequisite

Computer Science 15.

Topic Outline and Assignments

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Policies

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