Public webpage for sharing information about Dr. Joyner's CS6750 - Human Computer Interaction course in Spring 2022.
This class has two reading lists: a list of required readings, and a list of recommended readings. The required readings will be useful to your assignments and projects, and will also be tested more explicitly on the two course tests. The recommended readings are more generally foundational books, papers, and courses on HCI in general.
On average, you can expect to spend 1 to 2 hours reading per week. The topics of these papers fall into two categories: some are thorough, retrospective overviews of decades of HCI research; some are foundational, seminal works in the field of HCI; and some are cutting-edge research from the most recent HCI-related conferences and journals.
The information contained in these readings will be useful as you complete your assignments and projects, but it will also be tested explicitly on the course tests. Ten questions on each test will be based on these readings. From the perspective of the test, your emphasis in reading these papers should be in getting a sufficient understanding of the material to answer high-level questions about the paper, as well as to be able to find answers quickly for more specific questions.
Note that the weeks in this list represent the week of content most relevant to the listed readings. However, we know that there will be weeks when you are busier than others, and you may not be able to complete a week’s readings during that particular week. The only assessments dependent on having completed these readings are the tests, so you need only worry about completing the readings by the date of the next test.
We recommend reading How to Read an Academic Paper from CS6460 to better understand how to fit some of these readings into our estimated 1-2 hours per week.