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 (login required)
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.


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