Course schedule is tentative and subject to change. Links to lecture notes and assignments will be posted as the semester progresses.

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Teaching Schedule

Date	Topic	Lecture Notes	Video Recordings	Required Reading	Recommended Reading
06.04.2011	Introduction, Taxonomy of Input Devices, Window Systems Architecture	Slides		Input devices (Card)	Usability Engineering (Nielsen)
13.04.2011	Graphics Event Library, Base Window System	Slides		Window System Architecture (Gosling)
20.04.2011	Window Manager, User Interface Toolkit Layer	Slides
27.04.2011	The X Window System: An Implementation of the Reference Window System	Slides		The X Window System (Scheifler)
04.05.2011	Early Window Systems (Smalltalk, Mac OS Classic, Windows pre-NT)
11.05.2011	CHI Conference (no class)
18.05.2011	Mac OS X and the Model-View-Controller Paradigm
25.05.2011	Mobile Window Systems (iOS, Android)
01.06.2011	Windows
08.06.2011	Physical Computing and Prototyping (Arduino & Co.)
15.06.2011	RWTH Excursion Week (no class)
22.06.2011	Web Toolkits (GWT, Cappucino)
29.06.2011	Java, Qt
06.07.2011	Multimodal Interfaces and Toolkits
13.07.2011	Final Project Presentation
20.07.2011	Final Exam

Examinations

• 30.05.2011: Midterm Exam
• 20.07.2011: Final Exam (tentative date)

Important: Please note the date of the midterm exam and final exam. In the event that you cannot make it on those dates, it is your responsibility to notify us by May 8 for the midterm exam and by Jul 1 for the final exam, or you will receive a grade of zero.

Final Projects

• Eco-mmunity
• CJTJN
• HDREC
• Golden Girls
• A playful approach to teach sustainable behavior
• Household Energy Consumption Indicator
• My Environment
• Profile based energy consumption monitoring

Assignments

You can find the assignments in the L2P course room.

Grading Policy

• Bonus points: by performing well in the assignments, you can ear bonus points that will be added to your score of the exam. Note that the final project will get you 4 times the bonus points of a normal exercise.
• The bonus points will be awarded as follows:
• Grade 1.7 = 0.5 points
• Grade 1.3 = 1.0 point
• Grade 1.0 = 1.5 points

Assignments

Assignments will be assigned weekly. They are to be completed in groups of 2 or 3. Assignments will be graded on the following scale:

• 1.0 - exceptional work that clearly went above and beyond what was given on the exercise
• 2.0 - exercise was completed satisfactorily as per the assignment specification
• 3.0 - exercise was completed, but has some problems
• 4.0 - incomplete exercise
• 5.0 - little or no effort was put into the exercise

The assignments are designed to be completed in the Media Computing Lab in 2U13 that offers 8 Apple workstations to be shared by 2 people each. However, many of the tools we will be using are cross-platform -- you are welcome to complete the assignment on your platform of choice. However, it will be your responsibility to ensure your program(s) run on the machines in the lab. Programs that do not run correctly on the lab machines will be graded as incomplete. We will be able to provide technical support for the lab machines only. Please note that submissions with a written component that do not meet the basic standards of university-level English will not be graded.

Late Policy

Late assignments will not be accepted. Exceptions will be granted only for valid (i.e. medical) reasons.