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Department of Information Technology

User-centered System Design

spring 2010 / 1MD000 / 5 hp

Adminstrative
Formal description of the course
Main teacher
Jan Gulliksen
Teachers
Rebecka Janols, Roland Bol
Studievägledning
Aletta Nylén

News

  • 12 march: Link to evaluation: http://evaluering.ibg.uu.se/cgi-bin/engine_it.pl
  • 10 march: The reports from the group assignment should be submitted to Studentportalen in the filearea "File area for project assignment". Please write the Group number and project number in the Description: like this " GroupX ProjectY - "the name of the project". At the presentation the different groups that have worked with the same project will meet and discus the different perspectives. We expect that you read the other group reports (that have the same project).
  • 26 feb: Message from Neil Maiden: "Mac Users can use REDEPEND on their Macs. It seems that the best option is to use CrossOver (http://www.codeweavers.com/) then install MS Visio. One lesson was that it was quite sluggish and buggy, but does enable basic working."
  • 25 feb: The individual assignment should be submitted into studentportalen in "File area for individual assignment" by 26th of February at 17.00.
  • 22 feb: Students that are following the Requirements engineering tutorials taking place next week. You will be using the Visio tool to model your requirements. These requirements can be downloaded from here: http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/research/redepend/index.html username = redepend; password = redepend123. To get this to work they may have to install the following certificate: http://www.it.uu.se/datordrift/programvara/msdnaa. The requirements engineering module will be examined by a specific assignment that will be submitted directly to Neil and corrected by him.
  • 18 feb: The class is now divided into two groups for the presentation of the individual assignment on 1/3. Check studentportalen to find your group. Group 1 is 10-12, and group 2 13-15.
  • 22 jan: New rooms for some of the lecture, check the schedule!
  • 14 dec: The first version of the course page is launched

About the course

Start and Schedule

The course starts at 20th of january (week 3), and ends week 12.
More detailed information, links to course literature and description of what is covered every day is in the schedule Schedule.

Help and Contact Info

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

Examination

This is a project-based course that requires active involvement. Examination through individual hand-in assignment and a larger group project.
For those interested in higher grades than just the pass grade there is a voluntary Written Home Exam that may warrant you with a higher grade.

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

The literature in the course will mainly be scientific articles presented and linked to at the Schedulepage, more information at course start.
For those of you that read and understand Swedish a good guide through the course is the book Användarcentrerad systemdesign by Jan Gulliksen and Bengt Göransson, Studentlitteratur, 2002. The book has its own web site.

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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

The course evaluation will appear here when created.

Updated  2010-03-12 10:09:21 by Rebecka Janols.