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are required to participate extensively in literature research
and discussions.
Students will be expected to:
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read required readings ahead of the class meeting every week and prepare half a page of questions and interesting points for discussion; bring these questions & comments to the class and post these half pages on the class wiki the day the class meets; Some topics to write about:
- what is this week's paradigm of HCI good for? not good for? where will we likely see it, use it?
- what are the hard challenges that have to be overcome to make this paradigm for HCI practical?
- how likely is it that researchers will overcome these challenges?
- what do you like, dislike about this approach? about the papers you read?
- any other comments; |
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participate actively in the weekly discussions; |
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suggest additional papers/research to look at; |
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review and present papers in class; |
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design 3 original projects (one for each of the class themes) and present these in class on 3/7, 4/11 and 5/16; |
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complete a 2-3 page paper for each of these projects and submit each paper on the day of the presentation (upload to wiki). |
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The class is limited to 18 graduate students based on their interests and backgrounds. Permission from the instructor is required.
Students will be graded based on
(1) the quality and originality of the
3 projects they design and the papers they write about them (50%);
(2) the weekly 1/2 page of questions and comments in reactions to the required readings (30%);
(3) participation in the class discussions (20%). |
