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Welcome to IEOR 170 Spring 2007: Industrial Design and Human Factors
Course Control Number: 41030
3 Credits. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: upper division standing.
This course surveys topics related to the design of products and interfaces ranging from alarm clocks, cell phones, and aircraft cockpits to logos, presentations, and web sites. Design of such systems requires familiarity with Human Factors and Ergonomics, including the physics and perception of color, sound, and touch, as well as familiarity with case studies and contemporary practices in interface design and usability testing. Students will solve a series of design problems individually and in teams.
In addition to lectures, the class will analyze a number of case studies in depth and expert speakers from leading research labs and universities will present current perspectives. Students individually and in teams will design and prototype a series of projects which will be analyzed through in-class critique. The goals of the course are to familiarize students with fundamentals of human factors/ergonomics, increase student awareness of design in everyday experience, and enhance student skills in creativity and presentation. This course is intended primarily for engineering students. It requires senior standing in Engineering but no prior knowledge of design.
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Announcements
- A good place to go after your final exam - Bay Area Maker Faire: May 19-20, 2007, San Mateo Fairgrounds, strongly recommended by the instructor!
- Please do come to the class on Monday April 30. There will be an in class quiz and free chips and cookies to go with it. 4/29/2007
- Final Exam Infomration: 105 North Gate, 5:00PM - 8:00PM 5/17/2007
- Jingtao's office hours on 4/30/2007 and 5/2/2007 are canceled due to the coming conference travel. 4/25/2007
- Team member peer review assignment is out today, due April 2nd. 3/21/2007
- Individual Assignment 3 (Designing an IEOR 170 poster) is out today (we won't distribution paper copies of this assignment in class this time). 3/21/2007
- Each team should reserve a Group Meeting with the Instructor in the next four weeks. 3/21/2007
- Please send your group project presentatin slides (.ppt format) (for a six-minute talk) to ieor170@gmail.com by 10:00PM March 21st.
- A sample informed consent form that can be used in the informal prototyping group assignment is available here
- Jingtao's office hour on March 7,2007 will be postponed to 1:00PM - 2:00PM March 8, 2007. Sorry about the inconveniences caused.
- We have an unnamed copy of HW 1, scored 92. Please contact the GSI if you think it's yours.
- Project Groups have been announced now. Please send an email to ieor170(at)gmail_dot_com if you 1. couldn't find your name in the project groups page, or 2. don't know the contact methods of your team members, the TA will reply your inqiries by tomorrow afternoon. 2/14/2007
- After upgrading the ImageMagick package to 6.3.2, the image resizing function in our class wiki is fully working now, sample grammar [[Image:Coffeepot.jpg|120px|Coffee Pot]] 2/8/2007
- To Karena: please contact the GSI ASAP. We need to know your real name to record your scores for the reading assignments.
- The "create a new account" function on this wiki has been disabled from now on. Please contact the instructor if you'd like to create a new account.
- The lectures on 2/12 and 2/14 are required, not showing up in these two lectures will hurt your final grade. 2/05/2007.
- The second individual assignment, i.e. the individual project proposal, has been released today, due 2/14/2007.
- The easiest way to reach our class website : go to google.com, type in "IEOR 170", then click the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
- Tingting’s office hours have been changed from 12:30PM-1:30PM Wednesday to 12:00PM – 1:00PM Wednesday. Sorry about the inconveniences caused. 1/24/2007
- Individual Assignment 1 is released today, due 1/31/2007.
- For students who have trouble in submitting their comments, please check this guide on edit conflicts.
- Tingting’s office hours have been changed from 2:00PM-3:00PM Wednesday to 12:30PM – 1:30PM Monday. Sorry about the inconveniences caused. 1/22/2007
- About Waiting list : students on the waiting with high motivations (can be demonstrated by reading the required readings carefully and contributing insightful critiques) will have better chances to get enrolled in this class.
- Note 2: critiques on readings in lecture 1 are also required, due 11:59PM 1/26/2007
- Note: sorry for not being able to prepare enough handouts for the first class. For students who didn't get the paper handouts, please download it directly here. 6:40PM 1/17/2007
- Added in-class handouts on 1/16/2007
- The class web site is up on 1/14/2007
Schedule
Get readings and post your comments to the discussion page for lecture. (follow link from lecture title)
1/17/2007: Introduction, What is Design, What is Human Factors [ Handouts | Readings | slides ]
- Assignments (due Jan 22): Create a Wiki Account, Course Petition, Readings
1/22/2007 The Design Cycle, Brainstorming [ Readings | slides ]
- Due:Create a Wiki Account, Course Petition, Readings (Exact Due Time : 4:59PM 1/22/2007)
- Assignments (Due Jan 24):Readings
1/24/2007 Sketching, Idea Logs and Storyboarding [ Readings | slides ]
- Due: Readings
- Assignments :Readings (Due Jan 29), Individual Assignment 1 (Due Jan 31)
1/26/2007 Due: Readings
1/29/2007 Design Principles I - Affordances, Constraints, and Mapping [ Readings | slides ]
1/31/2007 Design Principles II [ Readings | slides ]
- Due: Readings, Individual Assignment 1
- Assignments: Readings (Due Feb 5)
2/5/2007 Task Analysis and Contexual Inquiry I [ Readings | slides ]
- Due: Readings
- Assignments: Readings (Due Feb 7), Individual Project Proposal (Due Feb 14)
2/7/2007 Reflective Physical Prototyping - Guest Lecture by Björn Hartmann [ Readings ]
2/12/2007 Need Finding - By Jono Hey and Berkeley Innovations (Vivek Rao & Patti Bao) [ Readings | slides 1 slides 2 ]
2/14/2007 Rapid Prototyping - In-class practicing led by Vivek Rao & Patti Bao [ Readings | photos ]
- Due: Readings, Individual Project Proposal, Takeout Box Observation
- Assignments: Readings (Due Feb 21), Group Project Proposal (Due Feb 21)
2/19/2007 President's Day
2/21/2007 Questionnaire Design and Paper Prototyping [ Readings | slides ]
- Due: Readings, Group Project Proposal
- Assignments: Readings (Due Feb 26) Contextual Inquiry and Task Analysis (Due March 7)
2/26/2007 Design Patterns [ Readings | slides ]
- Due: Readings,
- Assignments:
2/28/2007 Auditory Perception and Sound Models [ Readings | slides ]
3/5/2007 Visual Perception and Visualization technique [ Readings | slides ]
- Due: Readings
- Assignments:
3/7/2007 Tactile Perception and Haptic Interaction [ readings | slides ]
- Due: Contextual Inquiry and Task Analysis
- Assignments: Low-Fidelity Prototyping (Due March 21)
3/12/2007 Midterm
- Due:
- Assignments: readings (Due March 14)
3/14/2007 Model Human Processor and GOMS [ readings | slides ]
3/19/2007 Fitts' Law and Beyond - Guest Lecture by Dr. Shumin Zhai [ readings | slides ]
- Due: readings
- Assignments: In-class group project presentation (Due March 21), Group Presentation slides (due 10:00AM March 21)
3/21/2007 In-class group project presentation [ readings | slides ]
- Due: Low-Fidelity Prototyping, Group Presentation slides
- Assignments: Team Review (Individual) (Due April 2nd) IEOR170 Poster (Individual) (Due April 4th) Group Meeting with the Instructor (Due April 19th)
3/26/2007 Spring Break
3/28/2007 Spring Break
4/2/2007 Ergonomics and Anthropometrics [ slides ]
- Due: Team Review (Individual)
- Assignments:
4/4/2007 Ergonomics Case Studies [ slides ]
- Due: IEOR170 Poster (Individual)
- Assignments: Readings (Due April 9), Design Notebook Review (Due April 25) High Fidelity Prototype and Evaluation
4/9/2007 Heuristic Evaluation [ readings | slides ]
4/11/2007 Heuristic Evaluation - In-Class Practice [ readings | slides ]
4/16/2007 Quantitative Evaluation [ readings | slides ]
- Due: readings
- Assignments: High Fidelity Prototype and Evaluation (Due April 25th) readings (Due April 18)
4/18/2007 Interaction With Mobile Devices [ readings | slides ]
- Due: Group Meeting with the Instructor, readings
- Assignments: readings (Due April 23)
4/23/2007 Visualization Research - Guest Lecture By Prof. Maneesh Agrawala [ readings | slides ]
4/25/2007 Looking Back, Looking forward [ readings | slides ]
- Due: readings, Design Notebook Review, High Fidelity Prototype and Evaluation
- Assignments: Final Group Presentation Slides (Due 11:59PM 5/6/2007), Final Project Report (Due 5/14/2007)
4/30/2007 Protection of Human Subjects in Research, Guest Lecture by Tingting Cui, Week of CHI 2007 [ slides ]
- Assignments: Final Team Review (Due 5:00PM 5/7/2007)
5/2/2007 Art and Design, Guest Lecture by Prof. Ken Goldberg, Week of CHI 2007 [ slides ]
5/6/2007
- Due: Group Presentation Slides (11:59PM ieor170@gmail.com)
5/7/2007 Team Project Presentation [ slides ]
- Due: Design Notebooks, Final Team Review
- Assignments: Final Project Report (Due 5:00PM 5/17/2007)
5/17/2007 Final Quiz (105 North Gate, 5:00PM-8:00PM)
- Due: Final Project Report
Administration
Instructor: Jingtao Wang [1]
Teaching Assistant: Tingting Cui [2]
Email: ieor170 { _at_ } gmail.com
- Please avoid emailing the TAs and the Instructor directly. You are likely to receive a response much faster if you use this email address.
Meeting:
- Lectures: 3106 Etcheverry Hall, MW 5:00-6:30pm
Office Hours:
- Jingtao: 417 Soda Hall, 1:00PM - 2:00PM Monday, Wednesday or by appointment
- Tingting: 1116 Etcheverry, 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Wednesday or by appointment
Textbook: There is no required textbook for this class. There will be readings assigned for each lecture. The readings will be available online through this wiki. If you are interested in reading further take a look at the recommended reading list.
Grading
- Class participation and Readings (10%)
- Homework Assignments (20%)
- Midterm (15%)
- Design Project (25%) (Schedule)
- Design Notebook (10%)
- Final (20%)
About Design Notebook: Students will develop individual Design Notebooks that illustrate good and bad design concepts learned in the class. These will be turned in after very short (3 minute) individual highlight presentations to the instructors and TA. An example Design Notebook by Gloria Lo, Spring 2003 can be found here. (Note: This is just an example: please don't treat it as an exemplar).
There is a new policy on requesting grade changes this semester. See this document for the procedure and the grade change request form. Grade changes will not be considered unless follow the procedure detailed here.
Assignments and Project
The majority of the homework in this class will be oriented around the project. Many of these homework assignments will be done in with your project group, but some assignments (or parts of assignments) must be completed individually. We provide a rough schedule of the assignments here (the schedule may change over the course of the semester and we may choose to add or drop assignments).
- Individual Assignment 1
- Individual Project Proposal
- Group Observation and in-class Prototyping exercise
- Group Project Proposal
- Contextual Inquiry and Task Analysis
- Low-Fidelity Prototyping
- Individual Assignment - Team Review
- Individual Assignment - IEOR170 Poster
- Group Meeting with the Instructor
- Design Notebook Review
- High Fidelity Prototype and Evaluation
- Individual Assignment - Final Team Review
- Final Project Report
How to use and edit this wiki
New to wikis? Read the Wiki editing guide.
To contribute to this wiki, you'll need to first create an account. Please use your full name as your user name as in this example. Afterwards, please add some descriptive information about yourself on your personal page -- click your login name (next to the person icon) at the top of the page to access your personal page.
Credits
This lectures, format and syllabus of this class are based on Design and HCI classes taught by Ken Goldberg, John Canny, James Landay, Marti Hearst and Maneesh Agrawala. These authors have kindly provided access to their lecture slides and my own slides borrow from their earlier work.
