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Agenda for Day 32

  1. Announcements
  2. Assignments
    • Return Physical Design Portfolio
      • Mean score: 40.9 out of 45 (91%)
      • Mean completion time: 6.6 hours
    • Student Oral Presentations and Prototype Project Demonstration
      • Wednesday, May 21: Middle school boys users
      • Thursday, May 22: Stay-at-Home Moms users
      • Friday, May 23: Middle school girls users
      • Wednesday, May 28: Elderly users
      • Thursday, May 29: 2nd and 3rd grade users
      • Friday, June 30: Disabled users
    • Design Critiques due the day of the final

  3. Readings
    • For today, read Chapters 28 and 29 of textbook

  4. Final Exam:
    • Chapters 20-29
    • Objective and short answer questions
    • Objective and short answer questions
    • You are allowed to bring
      • One page of handwritten crib notes per chapter (single-sided)
      • These notes need to be your own work, no sharing of crib notes

  5. Today's Activities
    • Schedule student presentations (5 minutes)
    • Delivering effective presentations (10 minutes)
    • Discuss Design Critique assignment (5 minutes)
    • Lecture/Discussion Chapter 28-29 (10 minutes)
    • Innovations in HCI: OLPC video (6 minutes)
    • Innovations in HCI: OLPC User Interface video (6 minutes)
    • Innovations in HCI: OLPC Sugar Interface (6 minutes)

  6. Lecture topics and learning objectives: Persuasion
    After today's class, you should be able to
    • Explain strategies for communicating the results of your UI design activity
    • Explain level of usability maturity and how to move a company along the model

  7. References
    Effective Presentation Techniques [as *.ppt] by Michael Quinn
    37 PowerPoint slides by Michael Quinn on delivering effective presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint slides
    Color Schemes
    The Color Schemer Gallery is an online community where Color Schemer users can share and manage color schemes
    COLOUR lovers
    COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
    PowerPoint Slides for Chapters 28 & 29 [as *.ppt]
    Three PowerPoint slides to accompany the discussion of Chapters 28 & 29 of the textbook
    Corporate Usability Maturity
    Jacob Nielson's article on usability maturity models and moving a company along the levels
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