Latest update December 6, 1997, by Yngve Sundblad

Design for HMI, 5 credits, Oct 10 - Dec 12, 1997

New course for the new HMI research school.

Themes for Design for HMI

  • Design with different kinds of user orientation
  • Design aspects from various disciplines

    Time and place

    Fridays October 10 - December 12 at 10-12 and 13-15 in the seminar room at 5th floor, NADA, KTH, Lindstedtsvägen 5 (change from previous announcement)

    Examination

    To get credits for the course a student must hand in (see themes in schedule below)
  • 3 short (one-page) papers sent by plain email (no attachments) to John, bowers@nada.kth.se, and Yngve, yngve@nada.kth.se
  • A medium sized paper (5 pages) based on reading assignment given October 24, to be emailed not later than Tuesday, November 4 (replaces two short papers)
  • Paper on a real case taken from different e.g. the design lectures, the Qualiteque or own experience, in the löatter case consult with John or Yngve before starting. Instructions will be given here and in the lecture on October 24.

    Students with registered assignments (NEW)

    Schedule

    Friday Assignment Fri 10.15-12 Fri 13.15-15Literature
    Oct 10 - Design - the very idea
    John Bowers    		 IT Design
    Yngve Sundblad    		 Winograd&al
    Philips
    Oct 17 1.Design-the very idea (1 page for Oct 15) Assignment 1, YS
    Design, JB    		 Modeling users, JB
    Fashion design, JB    		 Pycock&Bowers
    Oct 24 2.User modeling-the very idea (1 page for Oct 22) Architecture
    Jerker Lundequist
    Stefan Junestrand    		 Assignment 2, JB
    User centering, YS&JB     		Lundequist
    Norman&Draper, ch. 1-5, 21, 22
    Bradshaw (ed), ch.1 (Web, Acrobat)
    Nov 7 3.Future of Direct Manipulation Interfaces in a Networked World - new design practises needed? (1500 words for Nov 4) Involving users, YS Software Design and Design Patterns
    Jiarong Li    		 Greenbaum-Kyng, ch.1
    Helander & al, ch.11
    Nov 14 - Assignment 3 presentations Industrial design
    Nicolas Frank    		 .
    Nov 21 4. Cooperative/participatory design comparing Scandinavian and North American schools (1000 words for Nov 19) Assignment 3 presentations, YS Assignment 3 presentations, YS .
    Nov 28 -Theorising users, JB
    Studying users, JB    		 Reflection with users, YS
    Assignment 4 summary, Ignoring users, wrap-up, YS    		 Schön, ch.3
    Winograd & al.
    Dec 5 - Hur man gör film (in Swedish)
    Görel Elf     		CID lectures: Susanne Bødker, Aarhus Univ, and Andy Lippman, MIT Media Lab (room E1).
    Dec 12 5. Paper on user orientedness and design in case of own experience (discuss with JB/YS) or from Qualiteque, (2500-5000 words for Dec.9 Student presentations of papers (12 mins each) Student presentations of papers (12 mins each).

    Literature

    Course book:
  • Winograd, T., Bennett, J., De Young, L., Hartfield, B. (eds): Bringing Design into Software, Addison-Wesley 1996, ISBN 0-201-85491-0.
    If not available at in bookstore, try Bokus, www.bokus.se, which delivers in three days (price SEK 351).

    Paper handouts

  • Pycock, J. & Bowers, J.: Getting Others to Get It Right: An Ethnography of Design Work in the Fashion Industry, Proc. CSCW'96, Boston, Nov.1996 (Oct 17)
  • YS: Centering on users (Oct 24)
  • YS: Cooperative design (Nov 7)
  • Introduction: Situated Design from Greenbaum-Kyng (Nov 7)
  • Participatory Practices in the Software Lifecycle, ch.11 from Helander & al, Handbook of HCI (Nov 7)
  • An introduction to Software Agents (ch.1) from Bradshaw (ed.): Software Agents, MIT Press 1997
  • The Design Process as Reflection-in-Action (ch.3) from Schön: Educating the Reflective Practitioner, Jossey-Bass 1990

    Reference literature for assignments (Bokus prices)

  • Norman-Draper: User Centered System Design, Lawrence Erlbaum 1986 (387:-)
  • Bradshaw, J. (ed.): Software Agents, MIT Press 1997 (497:-)
  • Lundequist, J.: Design Och Produktutveckling - Metoder Och Begrepp, Stud.litt. 1995 (175:-)
  • Schön: The Reflective Practitioner, Basic Books 1983 (198:-)
  • Greenbaum-Kyng: Design at Work - Cooperative Design of Computer Systems, Erlbaum 1991 (387:-)
  • John Carroll: Designing Interaction : Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface, Cambridge UP 1991 (316:-)
  • Negroponte: Being Digital, Vintage Books 1996 (127:-)
  • Mitchell: City of Bits, MIT Press 1996 (140:-)
  • Brenda Laurel: Computers as Theatre, Addison-Wesley 1993 (291:-)
  • Philips: Vision of the Future (Web)

    John Bowers & Yngve Sundblad