John David N. Dionisio, PhD

CMSI 370

Interaction Design

Fall 2009

Note

This page is maintained as an archival record of the course shown above, and as such, some links on this page may no longer be valid nor accessible. They are kept here as a record of the resources that were available at the time of the course offering.

All materials are in PDF. Contact me directly for source code or solutions.

• Syllabus
• JavaScript runner page
• JavaScript DHTML playground

Assignments

• Assignment 0910
• Assignment 0922
• Assignment 1001 (update 20090929: now due 1006)
• Assignment 1029
• Assignment 1110
• Assignment 1119
• Assignment 1201
• Assignment 1210

Handouts

• 0903: Interaction Design Overview
• 0908: Interaction Design Guidelines
• 0910: Interaction Design Principles
• 0915: Interaction Design Theories
• 0922: Java Swing Startup, Using GridBagLayout
• 1001: The Java Event Model, MVC Sample
• 1008: Midterm Review Sheet
• 1015: XHTML Rules of Thumb, The Tags That Bind
• 1020: Menus, Forms, and Dialogs in XHTML/CSS/JavaScript
• 1022: Menus, Forms, and Dialogs
• 1029: Menus, Tool Bars, and Dialogs in Swing, Higher-Order Swing Components, Externalizing Resources
• 1103: Direct Manipulation
• 1112: Affordances
• 1119: Drag-and-Drop, Custom Swing Components
• 1124: Design Poster & Programming Portfolio Specifications
• 1201: Command and Natural Language Interaction, Input and Output Devices, Collaboration
• 1210: Final Review Sheet

Related External Links

These links take you to Web sites beyond this server. The sites are in no particular order or bias, just “as they came to mind.”

• Wikipedia: A good starting point for virtually any concept lookup (emphasis on starting point)
• The Daily WTF has its share of interaction design fiascos (among others)