HCI Design Patterns, WS 0607

Announcements

• Yahoo has published there own design patterns under the creative commons license
• Midterm distribution

1.0: 45 - 46 1.3: 42 - 44.5 1.7: 39 - 42 2.0: 36 - 39 2.3: 33.5 - 36 2.7: 31 - 33.5 3.0: 28 - 31 3.3: 25 - 28 3.7: 22 - 25 4.0: 19 - 22 4.3: 16 - 19 4.7: 13 - 16 5.0: below 13

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Lecture Schedule and Slides

1. 24.10.2006 Introduction, Interdisciplinary Design , video
• reading: Scott Kim. Interdisciplinary cooperation
2. 31.10.2006 Off to Alexandria: Patterns in Architecture, video
• reading section 2.1 PAID (pp. 9-22)
3. 07.11.2006 No class - Fachschaftsvollversammlung
4. 14.11.2006 I strayed from the path: patterns in software engineering, video
• reading section 2.2 PAID (pp. 22-26)
• reading Beck, Cunningham. SW patterns & Smalltalk experiment
5. 21.11.2006 Oops: Alexander on software patterns - the OOPSLA'96 keynote, video
6. 28.11.2006 Back to basics: the structure of patterns, video
• reading section 3.1 PAID (pp. 52-54)
• reading section 3.3 PAID (pp. 63-64)
• reading section 3.4 PAID (pp. 65-73)
7. 05.12.2006 Midterm exam
8. 12.12.2006 Existing HCI design pattern languages - Tidwell: Common ground
• reading section 2.3 PAID (pp. 26-43)
• reading section 2.4 PAID (pp. 43-49)
• Tidwell online - Designing Interfaces: "Overview and Organzing the Content"
9. 19.12.2006 Existing HCI design pattern languages - Landay - The design of sites
• reading pattern browser
10. 09.01.2007 Three pyramids: interdisciplinary patterns
11. 16.01.2007 "So?" - Using patterns in the development process
• reading section 3.2 PAID (pp. 54-63)
12. 23.01.2007 PLML, tools, Ubicomp design patterns
• reading ubicomp patterns and paper
13. 30.01.2007 A critical review of pattern languages
• reading Pattern Languages - A critical review
14. 06.02.2007 Final exam

Labs & Assignments

1. 25.10.2006
• Discussion of Interdisciplinary Cooperation
2. 01.11.2006
• No lab - Allerheiligen
• Assignment 1: Alexander's Architectural Design Patterns, Patterns to read for assignment 1
3. 08.11.2006
4. 15.11.2006
• Assignment 2: Software Design Patterns, Facade & Observer Marking Guide
5. 22.11.2006
• Writers' workshop
6. 29.11.2006
• Midterm Review
7. 06.12.2006
• Midterm Solutions
8. 13.12.2006
• Project
9. 20.12.2006
10. 10.01.2007
11. 17.01.2007
12. 24.01.2007
• Assignment 3
• reading: Community-based learning pattern
13. 31.01.2007
• Final Exam Review

Project Topics

1. Instant Messaging
• Stefka Penkova, Sascha Beckers, Adalbert Schanowski, & Alex Hoffmann
2. Input Devices for Video Games
• Eileen Falke, Julie Wagner, Noriyasu Vontin, Kai Hoefig, Moritz Wittenhagen
3. Mobile music devices
• Nadège Médénouvo, Matthieu Lux, Emeric Chaize, Bodo von der Heiden, Florian Heller
4. Media Players (Software)
• Dieter Drobny, Johannes Christian Remy, Simon Voelker, Christopher Gretzki
5. Web Browser
• Sebastian Franken, Marc Schnabel, Jani Sirpoma, Bjoern Ganslandt