HCC Course Contents

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