TUE:

JAN 25

Activity: Domain mapping exercise.

Assignment: Domain mapping presentation Pecha Kucha style. Sign up for the class blog. Use your REAL name instead of a handle so that your posts can be easily identified. You can link to posts you make on your own blog/website, but be sure to create a new post for each item.

VIEW BY JAN 27:

• · Interaction Design History in a Teeny Tiny Nutshell by M. Rettig: http://www.slideshare.net/mrettig/interaction-design-history

READING RESPONSE DUE JAN 27:

• · Crampton Smith, Gillian, Introduction to Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
• · Sharp, Rogers, Preece, “What Is Interaction Design?” from Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction (PDF)
• · Winograd, Teri, “From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design” from Beyond Calculation, The Next Fifty Years of Computing (URL) http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/acm97.html

THU:

JAN

27

Discussion: Sharp, Rogers, Preece, and Winograd readings., Implications for emerging Interaction Design practice.

READING RESPONSES DUE FEB 1

• · Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, “Why We Need Things” excerpt from History From Things: Essays on Material Culture by Steven Lubar, W. David Kingery (Eds.)
• · Dunne, Anthony (2005): Hertzian Tales, Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experiences, and Critical Thinking (Chapter 4 and 5) pages 69 - 100
• · Kirsh, D. Complementary strategies: Why we use our hands when we think. In Johanna D. Moore and Jill Fain Lehman (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventheenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pp. 212-217. 1995.
• · Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer. 1997. Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '97), Steven Pemberton (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 234-241
• Winner, Langdon. (1988). The Whale and the Reactor. Chapter 2: "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Chicago: University of Chicago Press

TUE:

FEB 1

Pecha Kucha Presentations: Domain Maps

Assignment: Module I: The Designed Object

Discussion/Activity: Module I reading discussion: possible directions for assignment

DUE: Website/Blog URL, post your URL to the class blog

READING RESPONSES DUE FEB 3:

• · Interaction Relabelling and Extreme Characters: Methods for Exploring Aesthetic Interactions by Djajadiningrat, Gaver, and Frens
• · The Design of Everyday Things, excerpt by Donald Norman
• · The Power of Representation, excerpt from Things That Make Us Smart by Donald Norman

Next Class: Bring “an everyday object” preferably with moving or mechanical parts!

THU:

FEB 3

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout requirements

READING RESPONSES DUE FEB 8:

• · “Sketching User Experiences” Bill Buxton, “The Bifocal Display” chapter.
• · “What Do Prototypes Protoype?” Stephen Houde and Charles Hill

TUE:

FEB 8

Discussion: Prototyping Strategies and Vocabulary

Activity: Prototyping: The Bifocal Display

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout requirements

READING RESPONSES DUE FEB 10

• · Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins. 2005. Urban probes: encountering our emerging urban atmospheres.
• · Lanier, Jaron, excerpt from You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
• · Manovich, Lev, Augmented Space, from Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
• · Weiser, Mark, "The Computer for the 21st Century" - Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991

FEB 10

Pecha Kucha Critiques: Module I: The Designed Object

Assignment: Module II: Environment, Place and Space

Discussion/Activity: Module II reading discussion: possible directions for assignment

READING RESPONSES DUE FEB 15

• · Gamestorming: http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=344
• · Experience Prototyping by Fulton and Buchenau
• · Oulasvirta, A., Kurvinen, E., & Kankainen, T. (2003). Understanding contexts by being there: case studies in bodystorming.
• · Ken Anderson and Jane McGonigal. 2004. Place storming: performing new technologies in context.

FEB 15

Activity: Bodystorming I

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout requirements

READING RESPONSES DUE FEB 24:

• · Defining Game Mechanics by Miguel Sicart: http://gamestudies.org/0802/articles/sicart
• · Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, Meaningful Play and Designing Play, excerpts from “Rules of Play”
• · Katie Salen, Pokewalkers, Mafia Dons, and Football Fans: Mobile Play With Me
• · Greg Costikyan, I Have No Words & I Must Design: Toward a Critical Vocabulary for Games
• · Johan Huizinga, Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon

FEB 17

NO CLASS: WRITING WORKSHOP ON FEB 18

TUE:

FEB 22

Activity: Bodystorming II

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout requirements

THU:

FEB 24

Pecha Kucha Critiques: Module II: Environment, Place and Space

Assignment: Module III: Play

MAR 1

Activity: 1 Minute Game

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout requirements

Begin thinking about your final project

MAR 3

Discussion: Final Project and the Design Cycle

Activity: Final Project Concept - Brainstorm I

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity. Write a 5 page paper outlining your ideas for your final project, DUE MAR. 10

MAR 8

Activity: Brainstorm II

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout

Requirements

MAR 10

Midterm Grades Assessed

DUE: Final project proposal paper

NO CLASSES

MAR 22

Activity: Visionary Scenario

Assignment: Document and analyze in-class activity + reflect on reading as per handout

Requirements

MAR 24

NO CLASS: WRITING WORKSHOP MARCH 25 INSTEAD

MAR 29

Pecha Kucha Critiques: Visionary Scenario

APR 31

Activity: Peer Critique

APR 5

In-class Critique: Prototype presentation

APR 7

APR 12

Activity: Peer Critique

APR

14

APR 19

In-class Critique: Prototype presentation

APR 21

In-class Critique: Prototype presentation

TUE:

APR 26

Activity: Peer critique

THU:

APR 28

Discussion: Final presentation, Semester reflections

TUE:

MAY 3

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

THU:

MAY 5

PARSONS FESTIVAL WEEK: NO CLASS

FINAL DELIVERY

Due: Updated website, Prototypes, Documentation, Final paper, domain bibliography, summer research plan