Winter 2008
Changes in red.
The Project component of
this course involves doing a research project and producing a research
paper. The paper must be
formatted as per submissions to "CHI" – the ACM Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems, sponsored by the ACM's SIGCHI. Here is the template
file describing the CHI publications format.
For the research project,
you must conduct some research and write a paper on it. Preferably, the project involves doing
a comparative evaluation of two or more interfaces or interaction techniques
using one of the evaluation methods discussed in Chapter 9 of the course
text. Of those presented in the
text, it is recommended that you use the "Experimental Evaluation"
method. The example in the text
was for an evaluation of two types of icon design (natural and abstract). This was elaborated in class as well
(e.g., discussions on independent variable, dependent variables,
counterbalancing, analysis of variance, etc.).
Tips on writing and
formatting of the research paper are given in the template file, and were (or
will be) elaborated in class.
The paper should be 3-5
formatted pages for undergrads (4441), 6-8 formatted pages for grads (5351).
Submission. Submit your project paper as a PDF or DOC file in Prism
using the command 'submit 4441 project project.xxx', where xxx is either pdf or doc. Preferably, submit both pdf and doc versions.