Human-Centered Computing Seminar  Fall '99, 110 South Hall, Tuesday 4-5:30pm. CS 298-31, CCN: 25283 SIMS 290-2, CCN: 42723

Instructors: John Canny, 529 Soda Hall, x2-9955, jfc@cs.berkeley.edu, office hours W-Th 2-3pm
Nancy Van House, 307A South Hall, x2-0855, vanhouse@sims.berkeley.edu

This semester there will be a focus on knowledge creation and theories of collective activity. In knowledge creation, we will be concerned with tacit knowledge, collaborative work and the creation of "third generation" information systems. In the second category, we will be interested in theories of distributed cognition, situated action and activity theory. These theories provide a powerful and general basis for designing systems for computer-assisted learning, collaboration and HCI.  

HCC Readings: Here is a list of HCC-related books. Please feel free to suggest additions to it.

The course web page is http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/seminar.html while the general HCC project page is http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/.

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Schedule for Fall '99