701.81 Lesson Plans

Wed Sept 8

Lecture

• Hand out intro sheet
• Names / Emails / Program / Supervisor

Intro slides

• after your hosts, do student intros
  • Name, academic background, supervisor, speciality, thesis project, why interested,
• at appropriate times, show them
  • class website (navigate through readings/schedule/project details)
  • blog (show them how to log on, and how to create a posting)
• go through handout

For next week

Read

• Being Human, p10-62 (but read it all if you wish)
• Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, Section 1
• Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Blog

• Get email that studnets will use for this
• Write a short summary of your thoughts about each paper
• Take, post and describe a digital photo showing:
  • an existing example of ubiquitous computing in your home
  • possible good and bad places for ubiquitous computers

Presentation

• presentation topic suggestions

Project

• proposal suggestions

Wed Sept 15

Lecture

• Introduce Yaser
• Introduce Kathryn Elliot
• Kathryn Elliot guest lecture: Time, Ownership and Awareness
• Kathryn Elliot discussion (methods and analysis, approach to research, application at SMART)
• break
• Saul - wrap up talk

Class discussions

• Presentation: round robin elevator pitch
• Project: round robin elevator pitch
• Readings and blog: use blogs + pictures as focus for discussing
  • Being Human, p10-62 (but read it all if you wish)
  • Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, Section 1

Next week deliverables

Presentation

• final proposal

Project

• draft proposal
  • motivation, objective, milestones, schedule and deliverables.

Readings ( on readings site)

• Tony Salvador, Genevieve Bell, and Ken Anderson Design Ethnography. Design Management Journal, Fall, 1999, pp 35 – 41. Available online

Ron Weber. Editor’s Comments: The Rhetoric of Positivism Versus Interpretivism: A personal view. MIS Quarterly, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. iii-xii, March 2004 Available onlin

Cooper, Alan About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, 2007. Chapter 4 (49-73) To be supplied

Other readings of interest

• Tolmie, P., Pycock, J., Diggins, T., MacLean, A., and Karsenty, A. 2002. Unremarkable computing.
  • A perspective on how to look at domestic computing which is quite different from traditional 'work oriented' computing
• Shmidt, A. and Terrenghi, L. Methods and Guidelines for the Design and Development of Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Applications.
  • describes how methods of user centered design and participatory design can be appropriated to find users’ requirements and design ideas for ubiquitous computing applications for the home
• Howard, S., Kjeldskov, J. and Skov, M. Pervasive Computing in the Domestic Space
  • presents four inter-related dimensions on thinking about computing in domestic spaces. An intro to the special issue.

Wed. Oct 1

• Lectures
  • Social Science
• Deliverables
  • final project plan
  • blog entries
  • social science task sheets
• Talk about
  • Go through schedule / deliverables
  • SS assignement - with David: grading / feedback/revision cycle?
  • presentation schedule. expectations and confirmation of topics
  • Next readings for next week
  • David: PDFs before class?

Wed October 8

• Lectures
  • Amy Voida
    • pragmatics of running studies: How to Interview; Retrospective of the iTUNES Music sharing paper
    • students should have read the paper on interviewing, and her iTunes paper
• Schedule
  • Focus documents
    • Round 2 (if suggested by David's feedback)
  • Presentations:
    • Oct 15 (next week), post readings/materials to the class
    • Oct 22 (two weeks), powerpoint to Saul
    • Oct 22 & 29, student seminars 20+10 as scheduled
  • Project
    • Nov 19 Project presentations (5 weeks from now)
    • Dec 3 Project report (10 page paper) and archives
• BLog postings
  • keep them coming; I am tracking them.
  • concentrate on serious points i.e., critique, impact, etc.