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Department of Information Technology

User-centered System Design

spring 2008 / 1MD000 / 5 hp

Adminstrative
Formal description of the course
Main teacher
Jan Gulliksen
Teachers
Elina Eriksson, Lars Oestreicher.
Studievägledning
Aletta Nylén.
Other questions and tutoring
Jan Gulliksen, Elina Eriksson.

News

  • 24 April: Results have been sent to each student via e-mail. If you have followed the course and not received such an e-mail. Please get in touch with Jan Gulliksen. Some of you have received additional assignments to do and the deadline for these has been set to May 15.
  • 13 mar: Some last minute instructions on the individual assignment: Please e-mail your files to Gulan. There is no page limit to the assignemnt, I trust you use enough space to explain and discuss your findings to get a sufficient material to have a fruitful discussion on Friday....
  • 20 feb: Instructions about the project has been put on the project page.
  • 10 feb: The lecture on Tuesday, February 12 has been cancelled due to a double booking.
  • 17 jan: The first version of the course page is launched.

About the course

Start and Schedule

The course starts week 4, and ends week 14.
Here is a schedule Schedule.

Help and Contact Info

  • General questions and thoughts about the course, FAQ and tutoring: Main teacher Jan Gulliksen (room 1153) or Elina Eriksson (room 1158)

Examination

This is a project-based course that requires active involvement. Examination through individual hand-in assignment and a larger group project.

Voluntary Written Exam

Hand-in Assignment and Project Assignment

More information at course start. More information about the project can be read from the project page.

Results

Results and status of your assignments can be found at Studentportalen.

Course Literature

Mainly scientific articles, more information at course start.

As project literature the following books will be used (one book for each groups is available as a loan from us):

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  • The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Guide to User Interface Design av D. Mayhew, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999
  • Contextual Design. Defining Customer-Centered Systems av H. Beyer, K. Holtzblatt, Morgan Kaufmann Publischers Inc, San Francisco, Kalifornien, 1998
  • Software for Use - A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design av L. Constantine & L. Lockwood, Addison-Wesley, 1999

Some of the books is also available at the library.

Lecture Notes and Reading Instructions

Slides from the lectures will appear at Studentportalen.
Reading instructions will appear at the schedule.

Course evaluation

Answer the course evaluation through the web-based | course evaluation.
The course evaluation will appear here when created.

Updated  2008-04-25 00:35:55 by Jan Gulliksen.