John David N. Dionisio, PhD

CMSI 370

Interaction Design

Fall 2010

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
• ixd-bazaar on GitHub — where you’ll find our sample code

Assignments

• Assignment 0909
• Assignment 0921
• Assignment 1005 (update 20101001: now due 1007)
• Assignment 1028
• Assignment 1111
• Assignment [Redux] 1123
• Assignment 1130 (update 20101129: now due 1202)
• Assignment 1209

Handouts

• 0831: Interaction Design Overview
• 0907: Interaction Design Guidelines
  • Sidebar: Sweet Talking Your Computer, a Wall Street Journal essay
• 0909: Interaction Design Principles
• 0914: Interaction Design Theories
• 1005: jQuery draft materials (not available online due to preliminary nature of content)
• 1007: Midterm Review Sheet
• 1014: Event-driven computing draft materials (not available online due to preliminary nature of content)
• 1021: Ajax draft materials (not available online due to preliminary nature of content)
• 1026: Menus, Forms, and Dialogs
• 1109: Direct Manipulation
• 1116: Affordances
• 1123: Design Poster & Programming Portfolio Specifications
• 1130: Command and Natural Language Interaction, Input and Output Devices, Collaboration
• 1207: Computer graphics preview — OpenGL Quick Start, Introduction to GLSL
• 1209: Final Review Sheet
• 1216: Final exam links
  • Question 1a
  • Question 1b
  • Question 1c
  • Question 1d and 1e (note the relevant times)
  • Question 6

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)