CSE 6329 - Advanced Human-Computer Interaction

Mar 14, 2007 – As preparation for Aleks' presentation and demo of the tactile touchpad on Monday, please read A Comparison of Three Selection Techniques for Touchpads.

Mar 12, 2007 – Here are the slides for topic #6, Unipad: Single-Stroke Text Entry With Language-Based Acceleration.

Mar 8, 2007 – Marks for the midterm exam now posted. To view your grade, log on to Prism and issue the command courseInfo 6329. I'll hand out the exams and discuss them in class on Monday.

Mar 8, 2007 – Here are the slides for topic #4, Statistical Models of Human Performance, and topic #5, Handwriting Recognition: The Case For Unistrokes. Sorry for the delay. Acrobat was temporarily malfunctioning on my computer.

Feb 28, 2007 – For next week, please read two papers: Unipad: Single-stroke text entry with language-based acceleration and A comparison of two input methods for keypads on mobile devices.

Feb 21, 2007 –Click here to view the results of our questionnaire (the Edinburgh Inventory) on handedness. Thanks to William Zhang for help in entering the data and in creating the analyses and graphs in the spreadsheet. Click here to view the questionnaire.

Feb 21, 2007 – Requirements for Draft Research Paper now posted. See the main course web page, or click here.

Feb 20, 2007 – Here are the slides for the topic #3, Modeling Interaction.

Feb 19, 2007 – I hope you all had an enjoyable and productive Reading Week. I'm thinking "next week" (Feb 26) for the midterm. We'll talk about this in class tomorrow. In the meantime, click here to download an updated spreadsheet for our in-class experiment. Additional analyses are included.

Feb 7, 2007 – Click here to view or download the spreadsheet containing the results from today's experiment. Thanks to William Zhang for help in transcribing the data. Also, click here to view or download the apparatus, procedure, and coding sheets for the experiment.

Feb 7, 2007 – Here is the text messaging word-frequency list I mentioned in class today: sms-wordfreq.txt. The original file was obtained from http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~rpnlpir/smsCorpus/. Also, here is the template file used for submissions to the ACM's annual "CHI" conference: chi2007pubsformat.doc. Please use this template for you final paper.

Feb 5, 2007 – Here are the files I showed in class today: d1-wordfreq.txt, d1-digramfreq.txt, d2-wordfreq.txt, d2-digramfreq.txt. Click here, as well, to see the paper that describes the model we discussed on predicting text entry rates on mobile phones.

Jan 24, 2007 – Here are links to papers we discussed in class today on descriptive models (Buxton's A three-state model of graphical input) and predictive models (Card, Moran, and Newell's The keystroke-level model for user performance time with interactive systems). In the latter paper, the section called "Sensitivity Analysis" beginning on p. 406 is particularly relevant.

Jan 22, 2007 – Here are the slides for topic #2, Writing a Research Paper. Also, Here's the complete reference to the paper I mentioned in class on the Hick-Hyman law: Seow, S. C., Information theoretic models of HCI: A comparison of the Hick-Hyman law and Fitts' law, Human-Computer Interaction, 20, 2005, 315-352. Click here to view it. Note: I don't expect you to read this paper. But you might consider reading it, if this is a topic of interest to you.

Jan 17, 2007 – We have a new room!!! Beginning next Monday (Jan 22), we will meet in CB 122.

Jan 17, 2007 – Here are the slides for topic #1, Empirical Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction.

Jan 15, 2007 – Click here to visit a web site with an interactive demo on making a balanced Latin Square of any size. Thanks to Dusty Phillips for providing this.

Jan 10, 2007 – There are two papers I'd like you to read for next week. The first is Card et al.'s "Evaluation of mouse, rate-controlled isometric joystick, step keys and text keys for text selection on a CRT". The second is a short essay by me called "Reflections on Card, English, and Burr, 1978". It will be published later this year by MIT Press. Note that Card et al.'s paper is to be discussed next week in our current topic on Empirical Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction.

Jan 10, 2007 – Here is the anova program demo'd in class today (anova.zip). Note: there are supporting files and images for the API. Please read the API.

Jan 8, 2007 – Here's a link to Noldus, the company I mentioned in class today. According to their web site, "We provide professional software and instrumentation for the collection and analysis of behavioral data".

Jan 3, 2007 – Here are some links to the resources I mentioned in class today:

ACM Digital Library – good source for all the ACM's publications
HCI Bibliography – HCI papers only
Google Scholar – includes papers from the ACM and other publications
Wikipedia – useful, but watch for inaccurate propaganda
eResources through York's Library – access to many international journals, etc.
Websters | OED - on-line dictionaries

Jan 3, 2007 – Please read the CHI 2006 paper by Tohidi, Buxton, Baecker, and Sellen called "Getting the right design and the design right: Testing many is better than one". Click here to download it. It's a follow-on from the point made in class about comparative evaluations being preferred to "one-of" evaluations.

Dec 7, 2006 – 6329 web page up and running. Look here for announcements, downloads, etc.