The course comes in two parts. The reading intensive part of the course will be Weeks 1-5, the making intensive part will be Weeks 6-11.
Planning for Term CDI1 – Overview Table
Week 1: Design Thinking Applied to Health
S1.1: Design, User Experience, Usability
S1.2: Linking to Design Thinking
Key readings:
Ritter / Baxter / Churchill, Chapters 1 + 2
Neff / Nafus, Chapter 1
- Cockton, G. 2017.
New Process, New Vocabulary: Axiofact = A_tefact + Memoranda, Video. in: Proc. CHI’17 Extended Abstracts.
Week 2: Design and Data
S2.1: Designing From, With, By Data
Key readings:
Neff / Nafus, Chapter 2
- M. J. Bietz, G. R. Hayes, M. E. Morris, H. Patterson, and L. Stark, “Creating Meaning in a World of Quantified Selves,” IEEE Pervasive Comput., vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 82–85, Apr. 2016.
- Speed, C & Oberlander, J. (2016). Designing from, with and by Data: Introducing the ablative framework. In Proceedings of the International Design Research Society Conference.
- Rui Wang, Fanglin Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Tianxing Li, Gabriella Harari, Stefanie Tignor, Xia Zhou, Dror Ben-Zeev, and Andrew T. Campbell. StudentLife: Assessing Mental Health, Academic Performance and Behavioral Trends of College Students using Smartphones. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. 2014.
Additional readings
- Gilbert Cockton, Usability Evaluation What are we measuring and why?
- Key resource: Student Life, a sample data set of sensor and questionnaire data
Week 3: Engaging with Users Across Cultures
Key readings:
- Gilbert Cockton, Usability Evaluation What are we measuring and why?
- K. Hornbæk, “Current practice in measuring usability: Challenges to usability studies and research,” Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 79–102, 2006.
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Hertzum, M., Clemmensen, T., Hornbæk, K., Kumar, J., Shi, Q., & Yammiyavar, P. (2011). Personal Usability Constructs: How People Construe Usability Across Nationalities and Stakeholder Groups. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 27(8), 729–761. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2011.555306
Additional Reading:
- Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Clemmensen, T., & Kurosu, M. (2013). Reframing HCI Through Local and Indigenous Perspectives. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 29(4), 201–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2013.765759
- Marcus, A., & Baradit, S. (2015). Chinese User-Experience Design: An Initial Analysis. In Proceedings, Part II, of the 4th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: Users and Interactions – Volume 9187(pp. 107–117). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20898-5_11
- Criteria for the Stanley Caplan User-Centered Product Design Award
Key resource:
- usability.gov, a treasure trove of metrics and techniques
Week 4: Qualitative Research
S4.1: Qualitative Research: Introduction
S4.2: Qualitative Research Analysis
Key readings:
Neff / Nafus, Chapter 4 + 5
- A. Lazar, C. Koehler, J. Tanenbaum, and D. H. Nguyen, “Why we use and abandon smart devices,” in Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing – UbiComp ’15, 2015, pp. 635–646.
- J. Rooksby et al., “Personal tracking as lived informatics,” in Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems – CHI ’14, 2014, pp. 1163–1172.
- Smith, Joanna and Firth, Jill (2011) Qualitative data analysis: the framework approach. Nurse Researcher, 18 (2). pp. 52-62. ISSN 1351-5578
Key Resources:
Week 5: Ethnography and Friends
S5.1: Guest Lecture (TBD)
S5.2: Watching the English (Top Hat)
Week 6: Accessibility and Inclusion
S6.1/2: Dimensions of Inclusion and Accessible Making
Key readings:
Ritter / Baxter / Churchill, Chapter 10 + 14
- The Inclusive Design Toolkit, section About Users.
- P. J. Clarkson, S. Waller, and C. Cardoso, “Approaches to estimating user exclusion.,” Appl. Ergon., Apr. 2013.
- Alper, M. (2013). Making space in the makerspace: Building a mixed-ability maker culture. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory.
- Hurst, A., and Tobias, J. 2011. Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology. In: Proc. ASSETS ‘11
Week 7: Products and Services
S7.1/2: Service Design, Prototyping and Testing; Literature searching
Key readings:
- Lusch, R. F., Vargo, S. L., & Wessels, G. (2008). Toward a conceptual foundation for service science: Contributions from service-dominant logic. IBM Systems Journal, 47(1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1147/sj.471.0005
- Spohrer, J., & Maglio, P. P. (2008). The Emergence of Service Science: Toward Systematic Service Innovations to Accelerate Co-Creation of Value. Production and Operations Management, 17(3), 238–246. https://doi.org/10.3401/poms.1080.0027
- https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/the-principles-of-service-design-thinking-building-better-services
- http://design4services.com
- http://www.servicedesigntools.org
Week 8: Professional Issues
S8.1: Ethics
S8.2: Reflective Practice
Key readings:
Ethics procedure of Linguistics and English Language
Zimmer, M. (2010). “But the data is already public”: on the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and information technology, 12(4), 313-325.
Rivers CM and Lewis BL. Ethical research standards in a world of big data [version 2; referees: 3 approved with reservations]. F1000Research 2014, 3:38
(https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-38.v2)
Keeping a Research Diary: One Page overview (.doc Format)
Reflective Practice in Research – The role of the Research Diary
Week 9: Interdisciplinary Foundations
S9.1: Cognition, Emotion, Personality
S9.2: Guest Lecture: Sociolinguistics
Week 10: Go Make Stuff!
Week 11: Presentations
S11.1: Presentations 3-5pm