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HCI Professional Practicum

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Meetings
September 12, 2005
September 26, 2005
November 18, 2005

Instructor
David White

Principal Guest Instructors
Annie Archbold (CDC)
Arthur Murphy (Emory University Libraries)
Cord Woodruff (Definition 6)

Visiting Instructors
Michelle Berryman (Echo Visualization)
Jill Hewitt (UPS)
Diana Hughes (Swift-Hughes Design)
Aida Kenyon (AutoTrader.com)
Lisa King (Goody Inc.)
Lori McDaniel (Cingular Wireless)

Themes identified:
1. Life-cycle development
2. Story-telling
3. Appropriate work products
4. Communications strategies
5. Best cases and realities
6. Constraints (time and resources)
7. Diversity of the discipline

Class schedule, Spring Semester 2006
Day and time: Fridays, 9:05 to 11:55 a.m.
Location: 104 Technology Square Research Building

Week 1
January 13
Visitor: Berryman (DRW still needs to call her)
Understanding the development environment
Student-faculty give-and-take
Student introductions and goals
Syllabus, including problem sets

Week 2
January 20
"Expressive introspection"
Student statements due
Types of deliverables
Visio tutorial

Week 3
January 27
User discovery and user scenarios (Kenyon)
Project proposals
In-class persona exercise

Week 4
February 3
Visitor: Hughes (DRW also needs to call her)
Turner case study
Requirements
Client-relationship management I
Project-based environments

Week 5
February 10
Visitor: Hewitt
Formative and summative evaluation
Client-relationship management II
Program-based environments
Evangelism

Week 6
February 17
Visitor: King
Communications strategies
Project-planning breakout
Deliverable 1: User definitions and scenarios due

Week 7
February 24
Visitors: Berryman and King
Mini-presentations on project status

Week 8
March 3
Project and test plans due (5-minute presentations)
Feedback breakout session

Week 9
March 10
Visitor: McDaniel
Cingular case study
Return project plans to students, with comments

Week 10
March 17
Deliverable 2: Visio prototype and test due
Feedback breakout

Week 11
March 24
No class (Spring Break)

Week 12
March 31
Special Topics:
Student progress reports
Feedback breakout

Week 13
April 7
Student progress reports
Feedback breakout

Week 14
April 14
Student progress reports
Feedback breakout

Week 15
April 21
Student progress reports
Feedback breakout

Week 16
April 28
Deliverable 3: Final product
Deliverable 4: Project presentations