Classes are held from 12:30-2pm Tuesday and Thursday in 405 Soda. Based on feedback from a related course, the usual format for each class will have 4 parts:
I expect to have occasional guest speakers, in which case we would skip step 2.
Its likely that sometime during the semester, we will experiment with in-class shared note-taking using wireless PDAs. This is part of an ongoing research project in my group called Livenotes.
The course will cover the following topics in some depth:
In addition and depending on student interest, there will be classes on one or more of the following: perceptual UIs, Intelligent UIs, Tangible UIs, Information retrieval, Info visualization, E-commerce, Voting systems,... The course contents link at the top of this page will be updated regularly with the topics and readings.
Every enrolled student needs to hand in a short summary at the beginning of each class of that classes readings which should comprise:
One or two sentences for each bullet should be enough.
The course requires a semester-long project. Normally projects are
individual efforts, but two-person projects are possible. Project proposals will be due
soon. For samples of projects from the last offering of CS260, see
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/courseware/cs260/fall99/final-projects.htm