HCI Lecture and Laboratory Schedule
Fall 2007, Up To Midterm Break

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Date	Lecture	Reading	Labs/Assignments/Exams
9/17, Mon. First Class	Overview of Class Interface Introduction (after Bill Verplank) Fitts' Law (the one theory in HCI??)	<--Notes and Fitts 1954	Assignment 1, Due Mon., Sept. 24th Working with computers: Observe, Sketch, Think, Improve, Write-Up
9/19, Wed.	CASE STUDY: THE MOUSE How it Works More about MEECE and the Optical Mouse Design of Input Devices (by Zhai) A nice interview with Doug Engelbart Verplank, Oliver on Mouse Useability Design	<--Notes	Lab #1: Input Devices: Human Factors Due Monday, October 1 (Read about a good lab report here)
9/24, Mon.	Basic Physics Overview/Intro	<--Notes	Assignment 1 due
9/26, Wed.	Basic Electronics Intro/Overview	<--Notes	Lab #2: Input Devices: Resistive Sensors Due Monday, October 8
10/1, Mon.	Principles of Sensors, Resistors, Capacitors, More	<--Notes	Lab 1 Due Today
10/3, Wed.	CASE STUDY: BIOMUSE & RADIO BATON George Miller's Magical Number of 7 +/- 2 Signal Conditioning / Preprocessing / Data Acquisition	<--Notes and Miller 1956	Assignment 2, 7 +/- 2 Due Monday, October 15
10/8, Mon.	User input via Eye Tracking Some on Faces in General The World of BioMetrics	<--Notes	Lab #3: Piezo and Capacitive Sensors Due Wednesday, October 17 *** Lab 2 Due ***
10/10, Wed.	Isometric/Isotonic/Rate/Velocity control mapping Muscle Groups, 6-DOF Input Control	<--Notes and Zhai 1998	.
10/15, Mon.	CASE STUDY: MIDI Serial I/O, MIDI	<--Notes	*** Assignment 2 Due *** Assignment 3 Due Wednesday October 24
10/17, Wed.	Psychophysical Measurements, Weber's Law, Other Laws Auditory Display and Sound Synthesis	<--Notes	*** Lab 3 Due ***
10/22, Mon.	3-D Audio Kemar ... HEAD ... MTB	<--Notes	Initial Project Proposals!! ... Ideas! First Ideas Due November 7
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10/24, Wed.	CASE STUDY: THE NINTENDO Wii(mote) ! Haptics at the User Interface Steering and Steering with Haptics Sensory Substitution	<--Notes	*** Assignment 3 Due *** Initial Project Proposals!! ... Ideas! First Ideas Due November 7
10/27-11/5	BREAK WEEK .. BREAK WEEK .. BREAK WEEK ..	BREAK	BREAK WEEK

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