HCC Course contents for Fall '05
Area
Date
Topic
Overview
1/19/05
Course overview: Frameworks for HCI
Learning and Development: The "genetic" approach
1/24/05
An Overview of Human Learning
1/26/05
Constructivism and Piaget
1/31/05
Learning as a social process: Vygotsky
2/2/05
Vygotsky: Genetic, Social and Linguistic theories
2/7/05
Applications to Learning Systems
2/9/05
Project planning
Theories of language: The "linguistic" approach
2/14/05
Metaphors
2/16/05
Intro to Semiotics
2/23/05
Project Proposal Presentations
2/28/05
Bakhtin and Multivocality
Algorithms for content analysis
3/2/05
LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis)
3/7/05
Applications of LSA
3/9/05
Clustering and Summarization
Activity theory and relatives
3/14/05
Activity Theory overview.
3/16/05
Activity Theory Extensions
3/28/05
Communities of Practice
3/30/05
Actor-Network Theory
4/4/05
Ecologies of Knowledge
Social Networks
4/6/05
No Class (CHI)
4/11/05
Intro to Social Networks
4/13/05
Social network theory: Centrality and prestige
4/18/05
Social network theory: Role and position
4/20/05
Diffusion of information in social networks
Identity and Social Roles
4/25/05
Culture, Context and Meaning
4/27/05
Production of Self
5/2/05
Frame Analysis and Language
5/4/05
Wrap-up
5/9/05
Project Presentations
5/11/05
Project Presentations