Design Patterns in HCI WS 2009/10

Registration

Register at Campus Office if you plan to participate in this course. The registration is open from 01.10.-06.11.2009.
As a registered student, you have access to course material through RWTH's L²P course room.

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

Lecture free days

Podcast (in iTunes, Advanced->Subsribe to Podcast...)

Students are required to participate in a user study in order to receive the course certificate.
Students with a valid ID can purchase the book "A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design" by Prof. Jan Borchers for 40,00 Euro. Please contact our secretary in room 2313 (10:00-12:00 and 13:00-15:00).
Lectures and labs will take place in room 2010.
This lecture has 4 ECTS credits.

20.10.2009 Introduction, Interdisciplinary Design
- reading: Scott Kim. Interdisciplinary cooperation
27.10.2009 Off to Alexandria: Patterns in Architecture
- reading section 2.1 PAID (pp. 9-22)
10.11.2009 I strayed from the path: patterns in software engineering
- reading section 2.2 PAID (pp. 22-26)
- reading Beck, Cunningham. SW patterns & Smalltalk experiment
17.11.2009 Oops: Alexander on software patterns - the OOPSLA'96 keynote
17.11.2009 Back to basics: the structure of patterns
- reading section 3.1 PAID (pp. 52-54)
- reading section 3.3 PAID (pp. 63-64)

24.11.2009 no lecture
01.12.2009 Midterm exam
08.12.2009 Existing HCI design pattern languages - Tidwell: Designing Interfaces
- reading section 2.3 PAID (pp. 26-43)
- reading section 2.4 PAID (pp. 43-49)

15.12.2009 Existing HCI design pattern languages - Landay - The design of sites
- reading Browse the book’s resources
22.12.2009 no lecture
12.01.2010 Three pyramids: interdisciplinary patterns
19.01.2010 "So?" - Using patterns in the development process
- reading section 3.2 PAID (pp. 54-63)
26.01.2010 A critical review of pattern languages, PLML, tools, Outlook
- reading Pattern Languages in HCI: A critical review by Deardan & Finlay
02.02.2010 Final exam