05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 2001

Schedule

Note: The Readings are due on the date noted.
Links that do not work are to course notes that haven't been updated yet. Please see the corresponding lecture in last year's schedule.

Mon
Jan 15 1. Course organization; Why are user interfaces important and hard to design and implement

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83. ACM DL Reference.
Discusses why user interfaces are important, and why they are hard to design and implement.

Recommended Readings:

Brad A. Myers and Mary Beth Rosson. "Survey on User Interface Programming," Proceedings SIGCHI'92: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Monterrey, CA, May 3-7, 1992. pp. 195-202. ACM DL Reference
Discusses what percent of the time and effort went into the UI part. (Outdated).
Nielsen Text: Chapters 1 and 2

Wed
Jan 17 2. UI Styles, Dimensions of UI Variability, Introduction to Benchmarks

Required Reading:

Brad A. Myers, Neal Altman, Khalil Amiri, Matthew Centurion, Fay Chang, Chienhao Chen, Herb Derby, John Huebner, Rich Kaylor, Ralph Melton, Robert O'Callahan, Matthew Tarpy, Konur Unyelioglu, Zhenyu Wang, and Randon Warner. "Using Benchmarks to Teach and Evaluate User Interface Tools." Submitted for publication. Acrobat(pdf) or postscript

Nielsen Text: Chapter 3

* Start Work on Homework 1: Benchmark descriptions.
Benchmarks from previous years:

New: This year's benchmarks
Overview of 2000's Benchmarks
Overview of 1999's Benchmarks
Overview of 1998's Benchmarks
Overview of 1997's Benchmarks

Mon
Jan 22 3. UI Design: UI Guidelines

Required Readings:

Nielsen Text: Chapter 5

Recommended Readings:

Nielsen Text: Chapter 8
Grudin, "The Case Against User Interface Consistency," CACM, Oct 89, pp. 1164-1173. ACM DL Reference.

Wed
Jan 24 Presentations and discussions of the benchmark tasks (by class members)
* Benchmark descriptions DUE

Mon
Jan 29 Examples of Good and Bad User Interfaces
Presentations:

Quicken
Alice - Desney Tan
FileTrust -- Jack Zaientz
Age of Empires, -- Rishi Bhatnagar

Photoshop Layers -- James Fogarty

Arch. Desktop in AutoCAD -- Ipek Ozkaya

* Presented by the class members (optional)
* Start Work on Homework 2: Usability Evaluation

Wed
Jan 31 4. Usability Engineering Design Process

Required Readings:

Nielsen Text: Chapter 4 and 6

Recommended Readings:

Nielsen Text: Chapter 2 and 7

Mon
Feb 5 5. Overview of UI Software and Tools

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers. "User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 2, no. 1, March, 1995. pp. 64-103. ACM DL Reference
Brad A. Myers. "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology." ACM interactions. Vol. 5, no. 2, March, 1998. ACM DL Reference. (A previous version appeared as CS TR CMU-CS-96-163 and HCII TR CMU-HCII-96-103: html and postscript.)

Wed
Feb 7 Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers, Scott Hudson and Randy Pausch. "Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, (Mar. 2000). Volume 7 , Issue 1. pp. 3-28. ACM DL Reference. (old postscript or Acrobat)

* Homework 2 DUE
Benchmark List
* Start Work on Homework 3: First Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a Prototyping Tool

Mon
Feb 12 6. Interactive Tools: Prototypers (HyperCard, Director, Visual Basic), Interface Builders

Required Readings:

James Landay and Brad A. Myers. "Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design," Proceedings CHI'95: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, CO. May, 1995. pp. 43-50. (html) ACM DL Ref

Optional Readings:

Brad A. Myers. "Separating Application Code from Toolkits: Eliminating the Spaghetti of Call-Backs," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'91, Hilton Head, SC, Nov. 11-13, 1991. pp. 211-220. ACM DL Reference
James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers. Just Draw It! Programming by Sketching Storyboards. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-95-199 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-106. November, 1995. (html) (postscript)

Wed Feb 14 7. Software Organization: Lexical-syntax-semantics, Seeheim Model, MVC, Object-Oriented Programming for UIs

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers, Dario A. Giuse, and Brad Vander Zanden. "Declarative Programming in a Prototype-Instance System: Object-Oriented Programming Without Writing Methods," Proceedings OOPSLA'92: ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. October 18-22, 1992. Vancouver, BC, Canada. SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 27, no. 10. pp. 184-200. ACM DL Reference.

Optional Readings:

William Buxton, "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures," Computer Graphics, January, 1983, (17)1, pp. 31-37. (lexical, syntactic, semantic, etc.). [Not online]
Mark Green, "Report on Dialogue Specification Tools," User Interface Management Systems, G. Pfaff, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. pp. 9-20. (Seeheim model)
Glenn Krasner and Stephen T. Pope, "A Cookbook for Using the Model-View-Controller User Interface Paradigm in Smalltalk-80", Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP). August-September, 1988. vol. 1, no. 3. pp. 26-49.

Mon
Feb 19 8. Constraints

Required Readings:

Brad Vander Zanden, Brad A. Myers, Dario Giuse and Pedro Szekely. "Integrating Pointer Variables into One-Way Constraint Models," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 1, no. 2, June, 1994. pp. 161-213. ACM DL Reference

Optional Readings:

Brad Vander Zanden, "An Incremental Algorithm for Satisfying Hierarchies of Multi-way, Dataflow Constraints", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 18(1), January, 1996. pp. 30-72. ACM DL Reference
Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Rich McDaniel, and Alan Ferrency, "Easily Adding Animations to Interfaces Using Constraints." ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'96, November 6-8, 1996. Seattle, WA. pp. 119-128. ACM DL Reference (postscript)

Wed
Feb 21 * In-class presentations of 1st Benchmark Implementation
Start 2nd Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a new tool

Mon
Feb 26 Guest Lecture, Scott Hudson -- Advanced Constraints
Scott's PowerPoint Slides

Required Readings:

Scott E. Hudson. "Incremental attribute evaluation: a flexible algorithm for lazy update," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Volume 13 , Issue 3 (1991), Pages 315-341. ACM DL Reference
Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson, John Maloney and Alan Borning. "An incremental constraint solver," Communications of the ACM . Volume 33 , Issue 1 (1990). Pages 54-63. ACM DL Reference

Wed
Feb 28 9. Toolkits: intrinsics, callbacks, resources, widget hierarchies, geometry management
Instructions for the mid-term exam

Mon
Mar 5 * In-class Mid-term exam

Wed
Mar 7 Discuss mid-term
10. Basic Computer Graphics

Required Readings:

New Foley & van Dam, pp. 25-40, 52-60
old Foley & van Dam, pp. 132-134 (color maps)

Mon
Mar 12 11. Other Output Models: structured graphics; display postscript

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency, Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and Patrick Doane."The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 6. June, 1997. pp. 347-365. IEEE Explore Ref
Abstract in html, postscript.

Wed
Mar 14 * In-class presentations of 2nd Benchmark Implementation
Start 3rd Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a new tool

Mon
Mar 19 12. Window Manager Input Models

Wed
Mar 21 13. New toolkit input models: Garnet & Amulet

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers. "A New Model for Handling Input," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3. July, 1990. pp. 289-320. ACM DL Reference.
Brad A. Myers and David Kosbie. "Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects," Proceedings CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996. ACM DL Reference
Brad A. Myers. "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration," Proceedings CHI'98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Los Angeles, CA, April 18-23, 1998. pp. 534-541. ACM DL Reference

Mon
Mar 26 Spring Break

Wed
Mar 28 Spring Break

Mon
Apr 2 CHI'2001: No class

Wed
Apr 4 CHI'2001: No class

Mon
Apr 9 Amulet Input Model, cont.

Wed
Apr 11 * In-class presentations of 3rd Benchmark Implementation
Start 4th Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using Amulet

Mon
Apr 16 14. Demonstrational Tools

Required Readings:

Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, and David S. Kosbie. "Marquise: Creating Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration," Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp. 293-300. ACM DL Reference. (postscript)
Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers, "Getting More Out Of Programming-By-Demonstration." Proceedings CHI'99: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. pp. 442-449. (Gamut) ACM DL Reference. postscript.
Brad Myers, Richard McDaniel and David Wolber. "Programming by example: Intelligence in Demonstrational Interfaces," Communications of the ACM. March, 2000. vol. 43, no. 3. pp. 82-89. ACM DL Reference.

Optional Readings:

Brad A. Myers. "Creating User Interfaces Using Programming-by-Example, Visual Programming, and Constraints," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. vol. 12, no. 2, April, 1990. pp. 143-177. (Peridot) ACM DL Reference
Brad A. Myers, Brad Vander Zanden, and Roger B. Dannenberg. "Creating Graphical Interactive Application Objects by Demonstration," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'89, Williamsburg, VA, Nov. 13-15, 1989. pp. 95-104. (Lapidary) ACM DL Reference.

Wed
Apr 18
15. UIMS Techniques: Menu trees, transition networks, grammars, Event Languages, HyperTalk, production systems, Declarative Languages

Required Readings:

Mark Green, "A Survey of Three Dialogue Models," ACM Transactions on Graphics (5)3, Jul, 1986, pp 244-275. ACM DL Reference
chapter 10 from Olsen's book: "Editing Dialog Models". Not Online.

Optional readings:

Robert J.K. Jacob, "A Specification Language for Direct Manipulation Interfaces," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Oct, 1986, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 283-317. ACM DL Reference.
Ralph D. Hill, "Supporting Concurrency, Communication and Synchronization in Human-Computer Interaction - The Sassafras UIMS", ACM Transactions on Graphics, Jul, 86, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 179-210. ACM DL Reference
Philip J. Hayes, Pedro A. Szekely, and Richard A. Lerner, "Design Alternatives for User Interface Management Systems Based on Experience with COUSIN", Proceedings SIGCHI'85: Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Francisco, CA, Apr, 1985, pp. 169-175. ACM DL Reference. ACM DL Reference

Mon
Apr 23 16. Model-based tools: Creating the UI Automatically

Required Readings:

Dan R. Olsen, Jr., "A Programming Language Basis for User Interface Management," Proceedings SIGCHI'89, Austin, TX, Apr, 1989, pp. 171-176. ACM DL Reference

Optional Readings:

Brad Vander Zanden and Brad A. Myers, "Automatic, Look-and-Feel Independent Dialog Creation for Graphical User Interfaces," Proceedings SIGCHI'90: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seattle, WA, April 1-5, 1990. pp. 27-34. ACM DL Reference [PDF not online]
Pedro Szekely, Ping Luo, and Robert Neches, "Beyond Interface Builders: Model-Based Interface Tools, Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp. 383-390. ACM DL Reference.

Wed
Apr 25 17. Component Techniques: Andrew, OLE, OpenDoc, Java Beans

Optional Readings:

Andrew J. Palay, Fred Hansen, Mike Kazar, Mark Sherman, Maria Wadlow, Thomas Neuendorffer, Zalman Stern, Miles Bader, and Thom Peters. "The Andrew Toolkit - An Overview", Published in Proceedings USENIX Technical Conference, Winter 1988. Not Online.
JavaBeans Web Pages (http://java.sun.com/beans/), especially, the JavaBeans tutorial introduction:
http://java.sun.com/beans/docs/javaBeansTutorial-Nov97/javabeans/whatis/index.html

Mon
Apr 30 Catch up, and videos

Optional Readings:

Tyson R. Henry, Scott E. Hudson, Andrey K. Yeatts, Brad A. Myers and Steven Feiner; "A nose gesture interface device: extending virtual realities," Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, UIST'1991, Pages 65 - 68. ACM DL Reference.

Fill out questionnaire in class
Instructions for the Final

Wed
May 2 * In-class presentations of 4th Benchmark Implementation

Thu. May 10 1:00p.m.-4:00p.m. FINAL EXAM: WEH 8427

January 15: First day of class
March 8-9: no classes
MidTerm Grades Due March 13
March 26-30: Spring break
April 20-21: No classes
May 4: Last day of classes
Final Grades Due: May 17

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Mon Jan 15	1. Course organization; Why are user interfaces important and hard to design and implement Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83. ACM DL Reference. Discusses why user interfaces are important, and why they are hard to design and implement. Recommended Readings: Brad A. Myers and Mary Beth Rosson. "Survey on User Interface Programming," Proceedings SIGCHI'92: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Monterrey, CA, May 3-7, 1992. pp. 195-202. ACM DL Reference Discusses what percent of the time and effort went into the UI part. (Outdated). Nielsen Text: Chapters 1 and 2
Wed Jan 17	2. UI Styles, Dimensions of UI Variability, Introduction to Benchmarks Required Reading: Brad A. Myers, Neal Altman, Khalil Amiri, Matthew Centurion, Fay Chang, Chienhao Chen, Herb Derby, John Huebner, Rich Kaylor, Ralph Melton, Robert O'Callahan, Matthew Tarpy, Konur Unyelioglu, Zhenyu Wang, and Randon Warner. "Using Benchmarks to Teach and Evaluate User Interface Tools." Submitted for publication. Acrobat(pdf) or postscript Nielsen Text: Chapter 3 * Start Work on Homework 1: Benchmark descriptions. Benchmarks from previous years: New: This year's benchmarks Overview of 2000's Benchmarks Overview of 1999's Benchmarks Overview of 1998's Benchmarks Overview of 1997's Benchmarks
Mon Jan 22	3. UI Design: UI Guidelines Required Readings: Nielsen Text: Chapter 5 Recommended Readings: Nielsen Text: Chapter 8 Grudin, "The Case Against User Interface Consistency," CACM, Oct 89, pp. 1164-1173. ACM DL Reference.
Wed Jan 24	*Presentations and discussions of the benchmark tasks (by class members)* * Benchmark descriptions DUE
Mon Jan 29	Examples of Good and Bad User Interfaces Presentations: Quicken Alice - Desney Tan FileTrust -- Jack Zaientz Age of Empires, -- Rishi Bhatnagar Photoshop Layers -- James Fogarty Arch. Desktop in AutoCAD -- Ipek Ozkaya * Presented by the class members (optional) * Start Work on Homework 2: Usability Evaluation
Wed Jan 31	4. Usability Engineering Design Process Required Readings: Nielsen Text: Chapter 4 and 6 Recommended Readings: Nielsen Text: Chapter 2 and 7
Mon Feb 5	5. Overview of UI Software and Tools Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 2, no. 1, March, 1995. pp. 64-103. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers. "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology." ACM interactions. Vol. 5, no. 2, March, 1998. ACM DL Reference. (A previous version appeared as CS TR CMU-CS-96-163 and HCII TR CMU-HCII-96-103: html and postscript.)
Wed Feb 7	Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Scott Hudson and Randy Pausch. "Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, (Mar. 2000). Volume 7 , Issue 1. pp. 3-28. ACM DL Reference. (old postscript or Acrobat) * Homework 2 DUE Benchmark List * Start Work on Homework 3: First Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a Prototyping Tool
Mon Feb 12	6. Interactive Tools: Prototypers (HyperCard, Director, Visual Basic), Interface Builders Required Readings: James Landay and Brad A. Myers. "Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design," Proceedings CHI'95: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, CO. May, 1995. pp. 43-50. (html) ACM DL Ref Optional Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Separating Application Code from Toolkits: Eliminating the Spaghetti of Call-Backs," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'91, Hilton Head, SC, Nov. 11-13, 1991. pp. 211-220. ACM DL Reference James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers. Just Draw It! Programming by Sketching Storyboards. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-95-199 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-106. November, 1995. (html) (postscript)
Wed Feb 14	7. Software Organization: Lexical-syntax-semantics, Seeheim Model, MVC, Object-Oriented Programming for UIs Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Dario A. Giuse, and Brad Vander Zanden. "Declarative Programming in a Prototype-Instance System: Object-Oriented Programming Without Writing Methods," Proceedings OOPSLA'92: ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. October 18-22, 1992. Vancouver, BC, Canada. SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 27, no. 10. pp. 184-200. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings: William Buxton, "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures," Computer Graphics, January, 1983, (17)1, pp. 31-37. (lexical, syntactic, semantic, etc.). [Not online] Mark Green, "Report on Dialogue Specification Tools," User Interface Management Systems, G. Pfaff, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. pp. 9-20. (Seeheim model) Glenn Krasner and Stephen T. Pope, "A Cookbook for Using the Model-View-Controller User Interface Paradigm in Smalltalk-80", Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP). August-September, 1988. vol. 1, no. 3. pp. 26-49.
Mon Feb 19	8. Constraints Required Readings: Brad Vander Zanden, Brad A. Myers, Dario Giuse and Pedro Szekely. "Integrating Pointer Variables into One-Way Constraint Models," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 1, no. 2, June, 1994. pp. 161-213. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Vander Zanden, "An Incremental Algorithm for Satisfying Hierarchies of Multi-way, Dataflow Constraints", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 18(1), January, 1996. pp. 30-72. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Rich McDaniel, and Alan Ferrency, "Easily Adding Animations to Interfaces Using Constraints." ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'96, November 6-8, 1996. Seattle, WA. pp. 119-128. ACM DL Reference (postscript)
Wed Feb 21	* In-class presentations of 1st Benchmark Implementation Start 2nd Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a new tool
Mon Feb 26	Guest Lecture, Scott Hudson -- Advanced Constraints Scott's PowerPoint Slides Required Readings: Scott E. Hudson. "Incremental attribute evaluation: a flexible algorithm for lazy update," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Volume 13 , Issue 3 (1991), Pages 315-341. ACM DL Reference Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson, John Maloney and Alan Borning. "An incremental constraint solver," Communications of the ACM . Volume 33 , Issue 1 (1990). Pages 54-63. ACM DL Reference
Wed Feb 28	9. Toolkits: intrinsics, callbacks, resources, widget hierarchies, geometry management Instructions for the mid-term exam
Mon Mar 5	* In-class Mid-term exam
Wed Mar 7	Discuss mid-term 10. Basic Computer Graphics Required Readings: New Foley & van Dam, pp. 25-40, 52-60 old Foley & van Dam, pp. 132-134 (color maps)
Mon Mar 12	11. Other Output Models: structured graphics; display postscript Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency, Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and Patrick Doane."The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 6. June, 1997. pp. 347-365. IEEE Explore Ref Abstract in html, postscript.
Wed Mar 14	* In-class presentations of 2nd Benchmark Implementation Start 3rd Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a new tool
Mon Mar 19	12. Window Manager Input Models
Wed Mar 21	13. New toolkit input models: Garnet & Amulet Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "A New Model for Handling Input," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3. July, 1990. pp. 289-320. ACM DL Reference. Brad A. Myers and David Kosbie. "Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects," Proceedings CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers. "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration," Proceedings CHI'98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Los Angeles, CA, April 18-23, 1998. pp. 534-541. ACM DL Reference
Mon Mar 26	Spring Break
Wed Mar 28	Spring Break
Mon Apr 2	CHI'2001: No class
Wed Apr 4	CHI'2001: No class
Mon Apr 9	Amulet Input Model, cont.
Wed Apr 11	* In-class presentations of 3rd Benchmark Implementation Start 4th Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using Amulet
Mon Apr 16	14. Demonstrational Tools Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, and David S. Kosbie. "Marquise: Creating Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration," Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp. 293-300. ACM DL Reference. (postscript) Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers, "Getting More Out Of Programming-By-Demonstration." Proceedings CHI'99: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. pp. 442-449. (Gamut) ACM DL Reference. postscript. Brad Myers, Richard McDaniel and David Wolber. "Programming by example: Intelligence in Demonstrational Interfaces," Communications of the ACM. March, 2000. vol. 43, no. 3. pp. 82-89. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Creating User Interfaces Using Programming-by-Example, Visual Programming, and Constraints," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. vol. 12, no. 2, April, 1990. pp. 143-177. (Peridot) ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers, Brad Vander Zanden, and Roger B. Dannenberg. "Creating Graphical Interactive Application Objects by Demonstration," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'89, Williamsburg, VA, Nov. 13-15, 1989. pp. 95-104. (Lapidary) ACM DL Reference.
Wed Apr 18	15. UIMS Techniques: Menu trees, transition networks, grammars, Event Languages, HyperTalk, production systems, Declarative Languages Required Readings: Mark Green, "A Survey of Three Dialogue Models," ACM Transactions on Graphics (5)3, Jul, 1986, pp 244-275. ACM DL Reference chapter 10 from Olsen's book: "Editing Dialog Models". *Not Online. Optional readings: Robert J.K. Jacob, "A Specification Language for Direct Manipulation Interfaces," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Oct, 1986, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 283-317. ACM DL Reference. Ralph D. Hill, "Supporting Concurrency, Communication and Synchronization in Human-Computer Interaction - The Sassafras UIMS", ACM Transactions on Graphics, Jul, 86, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 179-210. ACM DL Reference Philip J. Hayes, Pedro A. Szekely, and Richard A. Lerner, "Design Alternatives for User Interface Management Systems Based on Experience with COUSIN", Proceedings SIGCHI'85: Human Factors in Computing Systems,* San Francisco, CA, Apr, 1985, pp. 169-175. ACM DL Reference. ACM DL Reference
Mon Apr 23	16. Model-based tools: Creating the UI Automatically Required Readings: Dan R. Olsen, Jr., "A Programming Language Basis for User Interface Management," Proceedings SIGCHI'89, Austin, TX, Apr, 1989, pp. 171-176. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Vander Zanden and Brad A. Myers, "Automatic, Look-and-Feel Independent Dialog Creation for Graphical User Interfaces," Proceedings SIGCHI'90: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seattle, WA, April 1-5, 1990. pp. 27-34. ACM DL Reference [PDF not online] Pedro Szekely, Ping Luo, and Robert Neches, "Beyond Interface Builders: Model-Based Interface Tools, Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp. 383-390. ACM DL Reference.
Wed Apr 25	17. Component Techniques: Andrew, OLE, OpenDoc, Java Beans Optional Readings: Andrew J. Palay, Fred Hansen, Mike Kazar, Mark Sherman, Maria Wadlow, Thomas Neuendorffer, Zalman Stern, Miles Bader, and Thom Peters. "The Andrew Toolkit - An Overview", Published in Proceedings USENIX Technical Conference, Winter 1988. *Not Online*. JavaBeans Web Pages (http://java.sun.com/beans/), especially, the JavaBeans tutorial introduction: http://java.sun.com/beans/docs/javaBeansTutorial-Nov97/javabeans/whatis/index.html
Mon Apr 30	Catch up, and videos Optional Readings: Tyson R. Henry, Scott E. Hudson, Andrey K. Yeatts, Brad A. Myers and Steven Feiner; "A nose gesture interface device: extending virtual realities," Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, UIST'1991, Pages 65 - 68. ACM DL Reference. Fill out questionnaire in class Instructions for the Final
Wed May 2	* In-class presentations of 4th Benchmark Implementation
Thu. May 10 1:00p.m.-4:00p.m.	FINAL EXAM: WEH 8427