User-centered System Design
spring 2009 / 1MD000 / 5 hp
- Adminstrative
- Formal description of the course
- Main teacher
- Jan Gulliksen
- Teachers
- Åsa Cajander, Roland Bol
- Studievägledning
- Aletta Nylén
News
- 26 april: All results of the course have been reported. Apologies for being late
- 16 mar: Please do the course evaluation here: http://evaluering.ibg.uu.se/it/utv/1MD000V09.html
- 12 mar: All your submitted reports have been published on the project side.
- 12 mar: Today is the deadline for submitteing your project reports. Please submit them via e-mail to Jan Gulliksen
- 8 mar: Wednesday and Friday this week are scheduled for reporting back on your individual assignments. We will schedule this as follows: Wednesday March 11 - Meeting all students having selected interview questions 1, 2 or 4 Friday March 13 - Meeting all students that have selected interview question 3 Participation in the event that covers your interview question is mandatory. I have not been able to accommodate all your requests about when to participate, so in case you are unable to come, we will have to come up with another suggestion for a time. What will happen on Wednesday and Tuesday is an informal discussion about your interviews. I will ask each one of you to speak a couple of minutes about your results and then we will mutually discuss each others experiences. There is no need to prepare any presentation.
- 9 feb: Schedule corrected in when Neil Maiden's lectures are taking place.
- 6 feb: Students can download the REDEPEND tool at: http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/research/redepend/index.html (User = redepend, Password = redepend123, Download the 3 files as instructed)
- 2 feb: Instructions for the project has been published.
- 29 jan: The lecture tomorrow on use cases and uml is cancelled due to illness.
- 25 jan: For those of you following the Swedish text book the lecture on Tues day January 27 is covered by chapter 4 in our book.
- 25 jan: Most of the remaining lectures have been moved to room 1211 see schedule for details.
- 23 jan: Schedule (room) change: the lecture is in room 1211.
- 21 jan: About Visio - Unfortunately it only runs on Windows. You can solve the problem by running Windows on your Mac. Free software for this can be found at: www.virtualbox.org.
- 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 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.
As project literature the following books will be used (one book for each groups is available as a loan from us):
http://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/acsd/ht03/beyerandholtzblatt.jpg 
- 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.