Human-Computer
Interface Technology
Fall 2004

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HCI Lecture and Laboratory Schedule: Fall 2004

Date Lecture Reading Labs/Assignments/Exams
Sept. 13, Mon.
First Class		 Overview of Class
Interface Introduction (from Bill Verplank)
Fitts' Law (the one theory in HCI??)		 <---Notes,
and
Fitts 1954		 Assignment 1, Due Mon., Sept. 20th
Working with computers:
Observe, Sketch, Think, Improve, Write-Up
Sept. 15, Wed. Design of Input Devices (from Shumin Zhai
A nice interview with Doug Engerbart
Verplank, Oliver on Mouse Useability Design
How the Mouse Works and more about MEECE
How an Optical Mouse Works 		<--Notes Lab #1: Input Devices: Human Factors
Due Monday, September 27th
Sept. 20, Mon. Basic Physics Overview/Intro
Basic Electronics Intro/Overview 		<--Notes Assignment 1 due
Sept. 22, Wed. Principles of Sensors, Resistors, Capacitors, More <--Notes Lab #2: Input Devices: Resistive Sensors
Due Monday, October 4
Sept. 27, Mon. Signal Conditioning / Preprocessing / Data Acquisition <--Notes Lab 1 Due Today
Sept. 29, Wed. George Miller's Magical Number of 7 plus or minus 2
User input via Eye Tracking
Also Some on Faces in General. 		<--Notes Lab #3: Piezo and Capacitive Sensors
Due Monday, October 11
Assignment 2, 7 +/- 2
Due Monday, October 11
Oct. 4, Mon. BioMetrics <--Notes *** Lab 2 Due ***
Oct. 6, Wed. 6-DOF Control <--Notes and
Zhai's Paper 		.
Oct. 11, Mon. Serial I/O, MIDI <--Notes *** Lab 3 Due ***
Assignment 2 Due
Oct. 12, Tue. MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM Midterm available today, 48 hours.
Last possible due time Tuesday, Oct. 19, 5:PM.
Oct. 13, Wed. NO CLASS, Take Home Midterm, Sensors TAKE HOME MIDTERM!!
Oct. 19, Mon. Digital Signal Processing
Pattern Recognition 		<--Notes .
Oct. 20, Tue. TAKE HOME MIDTERM DUE TODAY 5:00 (latest) . .
Oct. 21, Wed. Feature Selection/Data Clustering
Neural Nets and Cool NN Applications and Smell Chips!!
Fuzzy/Neural Pattern Recognition 		<--Notes Lab 4
10/25-10/31 BREAK Week . .
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