Systems Design Engineering

SyDe 542 - Interface Design

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 Jan 10                          Introduction to Work Domain Analysis

                                    Chapter 1 and 2 (first half)

                                   [Get Course Outline] [Get Lecture 1 Slides]

 

Jan 17*                         More advanced WDA, Information Requirements

                                    Chapter 2 (second half), Ch 4                                                     

                                    [Get Lecture 2 Slides]

 

Jan 24*                         The Language of Interface Design: A/D representations

                                    Design Phase 1: Basic design of Information Reqs

                                    Chapter 3 (first half), Ch 4

                                    [Get Lecture 3 Slides]

 

Jan 31*                         The Language of Interface Design: Context and Salience

                                    Design Phase 2: Single Variable Constraints

                                    Chapter 3, Ch 4

                                    [Get Lecture 4 Slides] – Updated on Feb. 1 @ 10 am (slides #2 and 3)

                                    [Get UPDATED Course Outline] as of Jan.31

 

Feb 7*                          Multi-variate Display: Configural and Mass Data Displays

                                    Design Phase 3: Multi-variate Constraints

                                    [Get Lecture 5 Slides]

 

Feb 14*                        Guest Lecture: Interface Design for Petrochemical Processing (Tentative)

                                    No Slides Available

 

Feb 21                          Reading Week, no class

                                   

Feb 28                          Design Phase 4: Navigation and Organization

                                    Prototyping, quick review of expectations

                                    [Get Lecture 7 Slides]

                                    Please see Announcements for important updates re: Report 1!

 

March 7**                    User Testing

                                    Project Presentations

                                    [Get Lecture 8 Slides]

                                     -> Report 1 DUE on Wed. March 9 by 5pm

 

March 14                      Controls

                                    Project Presentations

                                   [Get Lecture 9 Slides]

                                   

March 21                      Projects with Atypical Models

                                    Project Presentations

                                    [Get Lecture 10 Slides]

 

March 28**                  Projects with Social Constraints

                                    Course Wrap-Up

                                    [Get Lecture 11 Slides]

                                    -> Important Update: Report 2 is now DUE on Fri. April 1 by 5pm

 

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