We will be using Canvas for handing
in all assignments/projects. For groups, please
select one member to do the submissions.
The file
format
for portfolio documents must be PDF.
Additional material must be in one of file formats
specified below.
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The main
page for any deliverable in html format
must be called index.html.
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Make sure
that any links to files in your
deliverable directory are relative and not
absolute (i.e., for <Name_of_DeliverableX> use src="./my_img.jpg"
and not
src="/bowen1/a1b2/eece418/<Name_of_DeliverableX>/my_img.jpg").
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Only the
following files types will be accepted,
everything else will be deleted:
*.pdf, *.html, *.htm, *.gif, *.jpg,
*.jpeg, *.png, *.svg, *.txt, *.css,
readme, .mov, .avi, .mp4
If you would like to see other file types
accepted post a message to the discussion
forum.
Electronic versions of
non-executable deliverables must be turned in
(via Canvas) as PDF files. This gives you far
greater control over the appearance and
formatting of your documents, and reduces the
incidence of dependent files getting lost or
mislinked (html).
If you don't have software for
creating PDFs, here are some non-departmental
options:
- https://createpdf.adobe.com
: Create Adobe PDF files online. You supply them
with a source file (accepts MS Office, html,
etc) via a web-based form, and presents the
finished PDF for download.
The first 5 PDF's created are free; after that
you can subscribe for unlimited use for $10 USD
/ month. Requires user to register their E-mail
address (the notice on the site says it could
take up to 24 hours, but a test registration was
sent instantly). Does NOT require a credit card
for the trial account with 5 free pdf's.
- Mac OSX users: Ability to create
PDF files is included automatically.
- PrimoPDF:
a free PDF converter. "Convert to PDF from any
application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF
printer."
- OpenOffice:
a free office suite with PDF conversion
capabilities.
PDF's of midterms and
finals used in past offerings (cpsc 444: taught by
Booth or MacLean, EECE418 by Fels) are linked
below.
You should not assume
that the exams shown here for the course this term
will follow a similar model, cover identical
material or ask the same type of questions.
However, they should still provide a useful study
guide.
| Fall 2001
(MacLean) |
midterm 1 |
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Spring 2001 (Booth) |
midterm 1
midterm 2
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| Spring 2000
(Booth) |
midterm 1 midterm 2 |
Spring 2007
(Fels)
|
midterm
1 with soln'
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Spring 2008
(Fels)
|
midterm1
with soln'
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Check out the related courses in CS:
CPSC344: http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs344/current-term/resources/resources.html#oldExams
CPSC444: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~cs444/resources/resources.html#oldExams
This list is work in
progress. If you run into readings you think
should be here, please inform the
instructor.
online bibliographies:
specific readings (papers, books,
websites):
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[ Buxton96
] W. Buxton, “Absorbing and Squeezing
Out: On Sponges and Ubiquitous Computing,”
in Proc. of International Broadcasting
Symposium, Tokyo, 1996.
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[ Danesh01
] Danesh, A., Inkpen, K. M., et al.,
“Geney: Designing a collaborative activity
for the Palm handheld computer,” in Proc.
of Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI 2001), Seattle,
USA, 2001.
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[ Hewett
1996 ] ACM SIGCHI Curricula for
Human Computer Interaction: Chapter 2
Human-Computer Interaction
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[ MacKenzie95
] I. S. MacKenzie, “Input devices and
interaction techniques for advanced
computing.,” in Virtual environments and
advanced interface design, W. Barfield and
T. A. F. III., Eds., 2nd ed. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.
437-470.
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[ Norman88 ] D. A. Norman,
The Psychology of Everyday Things: Harper
Collins, 1988.
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[ O'Regan99
] J. K. O'Regan, R. A. Rensink, and J.
J. Clark, “Change blindness as a result of
mudsplashes,” Nature, 1999.
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[Raskin00] J. Raskin, The
Humane Interface: New Directions for
Designing Interactive Systems:
Addison-Wesley, 2000.
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Donald Norman's
book Emotional Design. Three chapters
available online at
http://www.jnd.org/books.html#E&Dbook_notes.
Chapter 1, in particular,
discusses the role of emotion and affect
in human decision-making and HCI and a
framework for understanding how affect
and cognition interact.
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Clifford Nass's
CACM paper "Etiquette equality: exhibitions
and expectations of computer politeness":
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=975841&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=40204446&CFTOKEN=30156215
A good (though very
brief!) introduction to Nass's research
on the "computer as social actor"
phenomenon in which people exhibit
behaviours inhuman-computer interaction
typical of human-human interaction (such
as reciprocity). |
Timothy
Bickmore and Rosalind Picard's paper
"Toward Caring Machines":
http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/04.bickmore-picard-chi.pdf
One specific
project of many in Picard's Affective
Computing group on creating machines
that detect and project affective
states. |
The web
credibility study:
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-evaluate-abstract.cfm
Discusses
one particular study that showed the
various criteria people actually use to
evaluate credibility of websites (and
how those criteria differed from the
ones people claimed to use) |
MIT Affective
Computing Research Group homepage
http://affect.media.mit.edu/
A collection of projects and
publications on affective computing by
the MIT Affective Computing group, led
by Rosalind Picard. I'm especially fond
of their "vintage" webpage, which
includes a diagram of the key areas in
affective computing:
http://affect.media.mit.edu/areas.php
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Vannevar
Bush. "As We May Think". The Atlantic,
July 1945.
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.shtml
Bush's seminal article describing his
vision of the future of science in the
wake of World War II, which
foreshadows many key ideas in
human-computer interfaces and
technology over the last 60 years.
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| useful and/or
entertaining web links
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funny bad stuff
- Bad day @ office video
(staged)
Good stuff:
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- Designing a new shopping
cart
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM
- ABC Documentary on IDEO,
"The Deep Dive"
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- Practical guide to qualitative methods
reference
- J. M. Morse. Qualitative nursing
research: A contemporary dialogue, Sage, 1991
Salary scale
| UBC ethics forms
and procedures |
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CPEN 441 is covered by UBC Ethics
Approval (H07-03063). This means that we can use
subjects other than ourselves (or classmates) in
our evaluations; it also means that while doing
so, we much follow UBC Ethics Procedures.
Thus, each team member must read the
UBC Ethics Protocol for EECE Classes. Your
team must follow all the ethical guidelines as
given in the protocol, including the signature of
the Adherence to Ethics Protocol form and
use of proper consent forms; examples of which are
provided below as word documents, along with
sample questionnairres and interview questions.
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