Design and construction of user interfaces

Welcome to the 2005's instance of the course! This is the main page for the course where new information is presented. Make sure to bookmark this page!

Information

The evaluation of the course is now ready: Evaluation

05-12-27
Concluding grades for all the assignments are published on the student status page.

05-12-22
The results of home exam are now at student status page

05-12-02
Home exam

05-11-29
Concluding feedback of assignment 3 will be sent out on 12 & 13 of December.
/Niklas

This course is completely Internet based, which means no physical meetings. You participate by following the course on the website. An active participation is required from you by continuous presentations of assignments. This course is best fitted for you that can not attend to physical lectures at the university. The teaching is based on self studies of literature with support by teaching lectures on the course web. Supervising is made on the weband by e-mail.
When this is an international course, the main language is English. Except from the final exam thesis, all assignments are to be written in English. Individual conversation with teachers or other students is okay in Swedish.

Registration

If you don't have applied for the course and wish to take it, please contact our student counsellor, Olle Gällmo. When accepted to the course you are to register yourself, at the latest on October 4th, via the Student portal. After this date you can register by e-mail to . If you don't have an account on the portal (provided by UpUnet-S) you can log in with your civic registration number and the reply code provided to you at the end of your second notification of admission as password. If you have any trouble with registering to the course, please contact our department's Student Office by e-mail or phone (+46(0)18 - 471 76 04).

More here about registration.

Knowledge entrance requirements

You need a normally equipped computer with an Internet connection to follow the course. The web browser must be quite up to date and handle stylesheets and javascript.
Basic knowledge in managing e-mail and constructing web pages is required. Some basic knowledge in programming is desirable but not necessary.

Course literature

benyon.jpg The main literature for the course is Benyon, D., Turner, P. and Turner, S. (2005). Designing interactive systems: People, activities, contexts, technologies. ISBN: 0-321-11629-1.

The course will also consist of material to read here on the course´s webpage as well as referred external texts, also provided here on the course web.

Web page

Except for an e-mail address, you also need your own webpage where you can present your assignments. As a student at Uppsala university you can also get web space at UpUnet-S. Otherwise many internet providers offer free web space on there sites like www.spray.se, www.freewebs.com, or www.yahoo.com.
Please note that we will not educate in HTML or web page construction. Knowledge about HTML and basic web page design can be achieved in books or by schools on the net. Web pages can also easily be made in WYSIWYG-editors.

We are looking forward to hear more from you in the near future!

Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos - Main responsible teacher
Jimmy Flink - Teaching assistant
Niklas Johansson - Teaching assistant