WRA 490 Information & Interaction Design
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Syllabus & Schedule (PDF)

Session 13 Notes

Sample Spec Document 1 Sample Spec Document 2
News and Updates Brief Schedule
News: Phase 3: Prototyping and Specifications

To Do List through 12/15:
  1. Begin assembling and drafting final specification document for your proposed system
  2. Continue design work by identifying "claims," creating prototypes and testing them
  3. Analyze audiences for your spec and prototype beyond the class
  4. Prepare materials for phase 3 presentations on 12/6
  5. Final Spec doucment due no later than 12/15 at 5 p.m.
  6. Send individual assessment, part II during finals week (revisit your initial entries)
Team Pages
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 The Fitting Room
Team Lodur

Helpful Links
Amazon Link to Rapid Contextual Design
InContext Enterprises
WikiPedia Entry on Rational Unified Process
Paul Dourish's Page
Folsom Library
TC Library
HCI Bibliography
ACM Digital Library
WIDE wiki site
Yahoo! Groups
Interaction Design Group Resource Page
Donald Norman on Human-Centered Design
Date
In Class...
T 8/30Session 1 [PPT]: Introduction; Read selections from Dourish book. Form Teams.
T 9/6Session 2 [PPT]: Teams discuss project ideas; Procedures for team presentations. Exercise 1 Activity Analysis.
T 9/13Session 3 [PPT]: Teams present activity analysis results; Requirements Memo guidelines. Schedule for phase 1 presentations announced.
T 9/20Session 4: Requirements Presentations.
T 9/27Session 5: No Full-class meeting. Team consultations.
T 10/4Session 6 [PPT]: Analyzing work practices. CD's work models. Exercise 2: Flow and Sequence Models. Bring Rapid Contextual Design with you today.
T 10/11Session 7 [PPT]: Teams present research plans; show & tell with flow/sequence models: representing interactions vs. system features. Building CD's cultural models.
T 10/18Session 8[PPT]: Teams present preliminary work models. Bringing it all together with Affinity Diagrams
T 10/25Session 9 [PPT]: Representing Design Concepts; Conceptual Design Presentation Guidelines; Exercise 3: artifact & physical models; Conceptual Design Memo Guidelines
T 11/1Session 10 [PPT]:: Teams present prototypes and evaluation plans; forecast your p2 presentation
T 11/8Session 11: Conceptual Design Presentations
T 11/15Session 12: No Full Class Meeting; Team Consultations.
T 11/22Session 13 [PPT]: More on Prototyping; Identifying implementation questions
T 11/29Session 14: No full class meeting; Team Consultations on Implementation Plans
T 12/6Session 15: Final Presentations