CMPT 894 (Summer 2003): Reading Schedule

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Assigned readings are to be done before class on the given date.

Lecture slides:: If slides are available, the lecture title will be a link to the slides in PDF form.
Readings:: Readings with page numbers "(pp. xx-xx)" are from a book or photocopy.
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Assignments and homework:: If the description of a given homework or assignment is available, its entry in the "given" or "due" columns will be a link.

Optional readings

Students taking the course for a grade will be asked to read a selection from the following articles during weeks 5-11 of the course. Given the page count (900 pages), we will obviously not get to all of them.

From: Carroll, J. M. (Ed.). (2002). Human-computer interaction in the new millenium. New York: ACM Press.

Systems, interactions, and macrotheory (222-262)
Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research (174-196)
Supporting cognitive models as users (141-173)
Let's Stop Pushing the Envelope and Start Addressing It: A Reference Task Agenda for HCI, Human-Computer Interaction 15, no. 2/3 (75-106)
Interaction spaces for twenty-first century computing (259-276)
The intellectual challenge of CSCW: The gap between social requirements and technical feasibility (303-324)
Situated computing: the next frontier for HCI research (537-552)
Roomware: Toward the next generation of human-computer interaction based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds (553-578)
Beyond bowling together: sociotechnical capital (647-672)

From: Abelson, R. P. (1995). Statistics as principled argument. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Making claims with statistics (1-16)
Magnitude of effects (39-53)
Articulation of results: Tics and buts (104-131)
Generality of effects (132-155)
Credibility of argument (170-198)

From: Creswell, J. W. (2003). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (Second ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

A framework for design (3-26)
Literature map (39-43)
Central arguments (49-54)
Ethics (63-67)
Research questions and hypotheses (105-118)
The use of theory (119-141)
Quantitative (153-178)
Qualitative (179-207)
Mixed methods (208-227)

From: Maxwell, J. A. (1996). Qualitative research design: An interactive approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Conceptual context (25-48)
Validity (86-98)

From: Schmidt, R. A., & Lee, T. D. (1999). Motor control and learning: A behavioral emphasis. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Methodology (15-40)
Individual differences (227-260)
Motor learning (261-284)

From: Kuehl, R. O. (2000). Design of experiments: statistical principles of research design and analysis (Second ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Research design principles (1-36)

From: Babbie, E., & Benaquisto, L. (2002). Fundamentals of social research, first Canadian edition. Scarborough, ON: Nelson.

Indexes, scales, and typologies (134-159)
Survey research (238-275)
Multivariate and elaboration methods (426-438)

From: Berg, B. L. (2001). Qualitative research methods in the social sciences (Fourth ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Paradigms, theory, and research (30-57)
Interviewing (66-110)
Focus groups (111-132)
Ethnographic field strategies (133-177)
Action research (178-188)
Case studies (225-237)

Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Readings (pages)	Total pp.	Given	Due
1	Tue. May 6	Introduction		0
2	Tue. May 13	Overview of methods	On the effective use and reuse of HCI knowledge (25 pages) Report on human-centered computing, online communities and virtual environments (40 pages)	65
3	Tue. May 20	Controlled experiments	Navigation patterns and usability of zoomable user interfaces with and without an overview (pp. 362-389) Causal inference and the language of experimentation. Chapter 1 from Cook, T. D., and Campbell, D. T. 1979. Quasi-experimentation: Design and analysis issues for field settings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (pp. 1-36)	64
4	Tue. May 27	Longitudinal studies (Anne and Mila)	A field study of exploratory learning strategies (pp. 189-218) Validity. Chapter 2 from Cook, T. D., and Campbell, D. T. 1979. Quasi-experimentation: Design and analysis issues for field settings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (pp. 37-94)	88
5	Tue. June 3	Art and design	Looking and leaping (1 pages) Interaction relabelling and extreme characters: methods for exploring aesthetic interactions (pp. 66-71) Projected realities: conceptual design for cultural effect (pp. 600-607) Emotion and design: attractive things work better (pp. 36-42) Healthy HCI? (1 pages) Variants in design cognition (17 pages) The science of design. Chapter 5 from Simon, H. The sciences of the artificial. (pp. 129-159)	71	Survey
6	Tue. June 10	Usability studies (Heidi and David)	Introduction to This Special Issue on Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Methods, Human-Computer Interaction 13, no. 3 (pp. 199-201) Damaged Merchandise? A Review of Experiments That Compare Usability Evaluation Methods, Human-Computer Interaction 13, no. 3 (pp. 203-261)	62
7	Tue. June 17	Heavy paradigms day	Human/machine reconsidered (9 pages) Applications and misapplications of cognitive psychology to mathematics education (15 pages) Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences. Chapter 6 from Denzin, N. K. and Lincoln Y. S., Eds., 2000, The Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage. (pp. 163-188)	50
8	Tue. June 24	Multi-level, multimethod	Engestrom, Y., and Escalante, V. 1996. Mundane Tool or Object of Affection? The Rise and Fall of the Postal Buddy. In B. A. Nardi, Ed., Context and consciousness : activity theory and human-computer interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp. 325-373) Research methods and hypotheses. From Creswell, above. (pp. 105-118) Case studies. From Berg, above. (pp. 225-237)	76
9	Tue. July 1	Canada Day
10	Tue. July 8	Build-it-and-see	Roomware. From Caroll, above. (pp. 553-578) Indexes, scales, and typologies. From Babbie and Benaquisto, above. (pp. 134-159)	52		Survey
11	Tue. July 15	Research synthesis	Power and information technology: a review using metatriangulation (pp. 339-350) Magnitude of effects. From Abelson, above. (pp. 39-53) Mixed method procedures. From Creswell, above. (pp. 208-227)	47
12	Tue. July 22	(To be announced)		0
13	Tue. July 29	(To be announced)		0