CSC334 - Human-Computer Interaction

Hi Friends, I am excited to work with you this new course introducing the field of human-computer interaction. Please look at the course description and the syllabus posted in Vista. I have gotten several e-mail inquiries on the course content, the course organization and the text book. Please let us use this blog for clarifications of still open questions and for anything else that comes into your mind.

I invited you all to this Blog as authors, so that you can post directly comments. Please do so.

First thing to discuss is the text book. It took me several years to find the right combination of pragmatic guidance and scientific reference. Try to get a used version from amazon.com or from somewhere else. Otherwise, a new book is a good investment in future technology developments. The user-centered software development process will be an important qualifying key word in your professional ambitions. Also, please follow all the course preparations I have outlined in an attachment to an welcome e-mail, sent out mid July: get you g-mail account and let me know about it, get the ACM membership and get Google Talk installed for chatting and talking with me and your other class mates. This course will be based on intense group working, so you better get used to the collaborative technologies.

I will stay in contact with you during the end of the break. Enjoy your summer. KP