PhD Studio Readings

Preparing for Studio Discussion

If you are assigned to facilitate discussion for a studio session, you will need to come up with questions for the class to answer in a Google Form based on the readings and send this to the 6.831D TA by Monday at 11:59PM on the week of your studio.

You will also need to come up with activities during class for creating a dynamic discussion. Here are some ideas for things you could do:

Open questions directed at the entire group for discussion.
Having class participants discuss with their neighbors before opening to the group.
Collecting quantitative data in the form or by asking people to raise their hand (this way everyone gets a feel for how much the group agrees on something).
Quote some comments from the form answers, contrast them with each other if you find opposing arguments.
Asking participants come up with real-world examples in their life or in their research.
Do a hands-on activity alone or with a partner. Don’t forget to bring supplies if you will need them.

Be creative!

Feb 10 Studio

Print out and read the following papers. Make notes on the paper so you can remind yourself of important points later when discussing in studio.

Paper 1: Wobbrock and Kientz. Research Contributions in Human-Computer Interaction
Paper 2: Shneiderman and Maes. Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents

When done, answer the questions in the google form:

Questions for papers 1+2 (Deadline: Friday Feb 10, upload until 9am)

Feb 17 Studio

Print out and read the following papers. Make notes on the paper so you can remind yourself of important points later when discussing in studio.

Paper 1: Ackerman. The intellectual challenge of CSCW: the gap between social requirements and technical feasibility
Paper 2: Bernstein et al. Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside
Paper 3: Kramer et al. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

When done, answer the questions in the google form:

Questions for papers 1+2+3 (Deadline: Friday Feb 17, upload until 9am)

Feb 24 Studio

Print out and read the following papers. Make notes on the paper so you can remind yourself of important points later when discussing in studio.

Paper 1: Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century
Paper 2: Le Goc et al. Zooids: Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces
Paper 3: Holman et al. Organic user interfaces: designing computers in any way, shape, or form

When done, answer the questions in the google form:

Questions for papers 1+2+3 (Deadline: Friday Feb 24, upload until 9am)

Mar 3 Studio

GR1 presentations are today.

Mar 10 Studio

GR2 presentations are today.

Mar 17 Studio

GR3 building session to start building a paper prototype.

Mar 24 Studio

GR3 presentations are today.

Mar 31 Spring Break

Apr 7 Studio

Prepare for this studio with:

the Experiment Design reading (and do its exercises by 10pm the night before)
the three papers in the RS1 handout. We’ll use them as examples in this studio, but won’t discuss each one in detail. But you’ll need to choose one of them for your RS1-RS3 problem sets.

Apr 14 Studio

Prepare for this studio with:

the Experiment Analysis reading (and do its exercises by 10pm the night before)

For this studio, we’ll use the three RS1 papers again, so no new research papers to read.

Apr 28 Studio

Print out and read the following papers. Make notes on the paper so you can remind yourself of important points later when discussing in studio.

Paper 1: Saul Greenberg, Bill Buxton. Usability Evaluation Considered Harmful (Some of the Time)
Paper 2: Dan Olsen. Evaluating User Interface Systems Research
Paper 3: Richard Hamming. You and Your Research

When done, answer the questions in the google form:

Questions for papers 1+2+3 (Deadline: Friday Apr 28, upload until 9am)

May 5 Studio

Print out and read the following papers. Make notes on the paper so you can remind yourself of important points later when discussing in studio.

Paper 1: Ko, Myers, Aung. Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems. VL/HCC 2004.
Paper 2: Bragdon, et al. Code Bubbles: A Working Set-based Interface for Code Understanding and Maintenance. CHI 2010.
Paper 3: Green, Thomas RG. Cognitive dimensions of notations. People and computers V (1989): 443-460.

When done, answer the questions in the google form: (Form coming)

May 12 Studio

This studio, the instructors of the course will discuss highlights from this year’s CHI conference, which will happen May 6-11.