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Agenda for Day 9

  1. Announcements
  2. Assignments
  3. Readings
    • For today's lecture/discussion: Chapter 3 and 4 of textbook
    • For next lab: MSDN Window Controls
    • For next lecture/discussion: Begin Chapter 5 and 6 of textbook

  4. Today's Activities
    • Feedback from peer reviews of draft proposal (15 minutes)
    • Lecture/Discussion Chapter 3 and 4 (15 minutes)
    • Slides/Video History of HCI: Interactive Graphics (10 minutes)

  5. Lecture topics and learning objectives: Identifying needs and establishing requirements
    After today's class, you should be able to
    • Explain Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives:
      • knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
    • Use Personas during the conceptual design of a program
    • Use Essential and Concrete Use Cases for task analysis
    • Begin Conceptual Design phase of prototype project

  6. References
    PowerPoint Slides for Chapters 3 and 4 [as *.ppt]
    Four PowerPoint slides to accompany Day 9 lecture/discussion
    Developing Personas
    Usability.gov's guidelines for developing and testing personas. Some sample personas as PDF's are linked from this page as well.
    Conducting Task Analysis
    Usability.gov's guidelines for conducting task analysis for Web sites.
Ed Gellenbeck, Department of Computer Science, CWU
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