Current Topics, SS 2008

Exams take place during lecture time, Tue 10:00-11:30

03.06.2008: Midterm exam (Aula 2)
15.07.2008: Final exam (2010) Exam results (restricted access)

Bachelor & Master students have to register in the (V)ZPA in order to participate in this exam (registration is open until 16.06.2008).

Lecture free days

08.04.2008: no lecture (CHI 2008)
06.05.2008: no lecture (Fachschaftsvollversammlung)
13.05.2008: no lecture (Exkursionswoche)

Lab free days

09.04.2008 no lab (CHI 2008)
07.05.2008 no lab
14.05.2008 no lab (Exkursionswoche)
11.06.2008 no lab (Studieninformationstag)
16.04.2008 no lab
28.05.2008 no lab
11.06.2008 no lab (Studieninformationstag)

News:

05 May: Student pictures 22 April: Class discussion forum is no available to registered students.

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Lecture schedule

Part I: Humane Desktop Interfaces (from Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface)

15.04.2008: Introduction, video 143 MB

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 2 (pp 17-32)

22.04.2008: Attention, Modes, video 126 MB

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 3

Assignment 1

29.04.2008: Quantification, video 126 MB

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 4

Assignment 2 (solution)

20.05.2008: Unification, video 125 MB

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 5

Reading assignment: The next UI breakthrough: command lines (due 03.06.2008)

Reading assignment: The linguistic command line (due 03.06.2008)

Assignment 3 (due 10.06.2008)

Archy demo @ RaskinCenter

27.05.2008: Navigation (see video below)

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 6

ZoomWorld Flash demo, available at RaskinCenter

Other demos of ZUIs

DENIM: An Informal Tool For Early Stage Web Site and UI Design

ZUI: Firefox Mobile Concept (:rolleyes:)

03.06.2007: Midterm exam
10.06.2008: Navigation cont., video 136 MB (SS07)

Part II: UI Modeling (from other sources)

17.06.2008: Statecharts, video 109 MB

Assignment 4 (due 24.06.2008)

24.06.2008: Matrices, video 129 MB

Reading: Harold Thimbleby, "User Interface Design With Matrix Algebra" (ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2004, Pages 181–236).