IELM 5220: Contextual Design for Decision Support Systems (Spring 2015)
Lecture venue: Rm 5507
Instructor: Prof. Richard H.Y. So (Office: Rm5541)
Learning should be FUN! If you have any idea to make the course
more interesting, please let me know.
Last updated on 1 June 2015
[1 June 2015]
Grades released
Marks for P1
Marks for P2
Marks for P3
Marks for idea-log
[19 May 2015 22:50]
On Thu 21 May, the schedules are as follows:
6:45pm Bao's group in Rm4619
7:15pm Calvin's group in IELM Conf. room
8:15pm Coskun's group in Rm4621
All rooms are booked from 4pm to 10pm. See you on Thu.
[18 May 2015 14:50]
The rubics for the idea logs are posted here, please hand in your idea log on Thu 21 May after your final show.
Rubrics3&4 - already graded.
Rubrics 5 to 8.
Lecture notes
Syllabus: last updated on 28 April 2015
Lecture 1: Overview
past example
Lecture 2: The starting point: Human Error
Lecture 3: The users' mind: Cognitive & Decision Support
Lecture 4: The CORE: Contextual Design & Inquiry:
Part A
Part B
Lecture 5: Kid stuff is more than kid stuff: Use of Storyboards
Lecture 6: Creativity can be learnt: Design tools
Lecture 7: Can't wait for the development? Role prototyping
Lecture 8: No time for testing? Heristic Evaluations
Projects
Project P1a
Project P1b
Project 2
P2a
P2bc
Project 3
P3a
P3b
P3c
Assignments
Background Reading & Relevant Web sites
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Reading 1
"Teaching embodied Interaction Design Practice" by Scott R. Klemmer.
Reading 2
"To Err is Human", Ch5 in: The Psychology of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.
It is available as E-book at HKUST library as well. ITSC Login required.
Reading 3
"Ch3, Principles of Contextual Inquiry in: Contextual Design" defining customer-centred systems by Beyer and Holzblatt.
Reading 4
"Ch3 of Understanding the comics" by McCloud.
Reading 5
"Cognition" by Christopher Wickens.
Reading 6
"Design tools extracted from Product Design" by Mike Baxter (1995).
Reading 7
"What do prototypes prototype" by Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill.
Reading 8
"heuristic-evluation" by Jakob Nielsen.
rhyso@ust.hk
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