Winter 2010
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. The project should involve doing a
comparative evaluation of two or more interfaces or interaction
techniques. For details, see
Chapter 9 in the text ("Experimental Evaluation") and the slides
presented in class ("Empirical Research Methods in Human-Computer
Interaction").
Tips on writing and
formatting of the research paper are given in the template file, and were
elaborated in class.
The paper should be 4-5
formatted pages for undergrads (4441), 7-8 formatted pages for grads
(5351). Cite and reference at
least six (6) published papers.
Submission. Submit your project paper as PDF and
DOC files in Prism using the command 'submit 4441 project project.xxx', where xxx is either pdf or doc.
Submit any extra files you
feel are useful; but please explain in a readme.txt file. For example, a video might be useful to demonstrate your
apparatus or to demonstrate participants interacting with the apparatus.