Timetable available from Course Website
www.itee.uq.edu.au/~mmds1400
Students must sign up for one one-hour tutorial session and one two-hour pracs using mySI-Net before the end of week 1. Students will form teams of 3 or 4 (preferred) in the tutorial in week 2.
The aims of this course are to provide students with an introduction to the key principles and concepts of Human Computer Interaction and the various analysis and design techniques in the methodology of user-centered development, and how to apply these principles, concepts and techniques to the development of websites. This course also provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest web technologies.
| GRADUATE ATTRIBUTE | LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
| A. IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIELD OF STUDY | |
| A1. A comprehensive and well-founded knowledge in the field of study. | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| A4. An understanding of how other disciplines relate to the field of study. | 2, 6 |
| A5. An international perspective on the field of study. | 1, 3 |
| B. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION | |
| B1. The ability to collect, analyse and organise information and ideas and to convey those ideas clearly and fluently, in both written and spoken forms. | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 |
| B2. The ability to interact effectively with others in order to work towards a common outcome. | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| B3. The ability to select and use the appropriate level, style and means of communication. | 1, 2, 6 |
| B4. The ability to engage effectively and appropriately with information and communication technologies. | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 |
| C. INDEPENDENCE AND CREATIVITY | |
| C1. The ability to work and learn independently. | 4, 5, 6 |
| C3. The ability to generate ideas and adapt innovatively to changing environments. | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| C4. The ability to identify problems, create solutions, innovate and improve current practices. | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| D. CRITICAL JUDGEMENT | |
| D1. The ability to define and analyse problems. | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| D2. The ability to apply critical reasoning to issues through independent thought and informed judgement. | 2, 5, 6 |
| D3. The ability to evaluate opinions, make decisions and to reflect critically on the justifications for decisions. | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| E. ETHICAL AND SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING | |
| E1. An understanding of social and civic responsibility. | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| E2. An appreciation of the philosophical and social contexts of a discipline. | 1, 2, 3 |
| E4. A knowledge and respect of ethics and ethical standards in relation to a major area of study. | 2, 3, 6 |
| E5. A knowledge of other cultures and times and an appreciation of cultural diversity. | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| Sebesta, R.W., 2005/2007/2008. Programming the World Wide Web, 3rd or 4th edition, Pearson Addison Wesley (Call Number QA76.625 .S42 2006 ) |
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| McCracken, D.D. and Wolfe, R.J., 2004. User Centered Website Development : a human computer interaction approach, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey. (Call Number: TK5105.888 .M376 2004) |
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The WWW site for this course is at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~mmds1400/ The news group for this course is at news://news.uq.edu.au/uq.itee.mmds1400
Tutorials:
Tutorials in this course help students understand and apply the design concepts underpinning HCI covered in the lectures, working in teams of 3 to 4.
Teams:
The same teams will undertake the three group assignments and where presentations of assignment work are required, these will happen during the tutorial class. Participation during tutorials forms part of the course assessment.
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Practical and tutorial assessments will NOT be marked after the deadline.
No extensions are given for all other assignments expect in extraordinary personal circumstances (documented medical evidence or family emergency). Please allow plenty of time for submission to the online assignment submission system as many students are attempting the same task at the same time.
Personal hardware or computer failures are not grounds for extension.
Marks are given for this course based on an individual and team assessment component.
3 member teams: min share = 27; max share = 40; equal share = 33.3
4 member teams: min share = 20; max share = 30; equal share = 25
Each team assignment will be given an overall mark, which will then be allocated to team members as follows:
Return of Assignments
Assignments will be returned through tutorials. Any items not claimed in the corresponding tutorial may be collected from the course coordinator.
Practical exercises are competency-based assignments.
Marks for a prac exercise will be awarded on the basis of 2 or zero (no partial mark). The exercise can be done at home or in the lab at any time. You may do the exercises as many times as you want. However, you MUST present your work to the tutor in the lab at the times of our MMDS1400 prac sessions before or in Due Week (see course website link for Pracs). The lab tutor will give marks to your work immediately after your work is presented.
Tutorials discuss and apply design concepts from lectures to a semester long project for the design, prototype and evaluation of a first year website for IT and MM students.
This task requires active participation in your assigned tutorial class with other team members on tutorial activities, and assessed by the tutor.
Each tutorial will be assessed as follows: 0 %- non attendance; 0.5% attendance with no participation, 1% for attendance and participation. Students arriving more than 15 minutes after the start of the session or leaving before the end of the session will be deemed to have missed that session.
Task 1 (2%)
This weekly task requires students to monitor their times of working on this course each week - class, individual ('solo') and team. This is to occur from week 2 to week 13, including mid-semester break. The recording of the time monitoring for each week is due on Wednesday, 10pm of the following week. Please place this at the course website, under the Time Monitoring link.
The activity associated with this assessment item is intended to help students monitor their use of time so they can improve their time management.
Task 2 (2%)
Students are asked to submit a reflection on their time of engagement in the course over the semester and the outcomes that they achieved. This is not to be longer than one page, with a minumum of 100 words.
This process of reflection provides students professional practice in designing and developing web interfaces for an employer. It will also help students to focus on their personal effort in the course.
More details of both tasks can be found at the course website, under Time Monitoring.
Time Management submission - full completion 2%, missing 1-3 weeks: 1%; missing more than 3 weeks: 0%;
Reflection exercise - 2%. Mark will be based on students ability to link their time-effort skills to performance in the course. Criteria will be given out in lectures in week 11.
For user-centered development, "learning by doing " is the most effective approach. In this assignment, working as a team of 3 or 4 students, you are required to find a "client" with the goal of creating a website for them. Perform the various analysis activities in the user-centered website development methodology and produce an analysis report describing your methods and findings.
In this assignment, you are required to design a prototype for the website that you analysed in Assignment 1. Your design report should provide evidence of the user-centered website development process that you used including alternative designs (prototypes), evaluation, a summary of feedback obtained from tutorial classes and your design improvements.
In this assignment, you are required to implement the website that you designed in Assignment 2 and evaluate the website through user testing until it is error-free. Demonstrate your website with scenarios at an allocated time in Week 13.
An overview of the University’s assessment-related policies can be found on myAdvisor (http://www.uq.edu.au/myadvisor/index.html?page=2910).
Academic Integrity
It is the University's task to encourage ethical scholarship and to inform students and staff about the institutional standards of academic behaviour expected of them in learning, teaching and research. Students have a responsibility to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity in their work. Students must not cheat in examinations or other forms of assessment and must ensure they do not plagiarise.
Plagiarism
The University has adopted the following definition of plagiarism:
Plagiarism is the act of misrepresenting as one's own original work the ideas, interpretations, words or creative works of another. These include published and unpublished documents, designs, music, sounds, images, photographs, computer codes and ideas gained through working in a group. These ideas, interpretations, words or works may be found in print and/or electronic media.
Students are encouraged to read the UQ Academic Integrity and Plagiarism policy (http://www.uq.edu.au/hupp/index.html?page=25128) which makes a comprehensive statement about the University's approach to plagiarism, including the approved use of plagiarism detection software, the consequences of plagiarism and the principles associated with preventing plagiarism.
As a student you have a responsibility to incorporate feedback into your learning; make use of the assessment criteria that you are given; be aware of the rules, policies and other documents related to assessment; and provide teachers with feedback on their assessment practices.
There are certain steps you can take if you feel your result does not reflect your performance. Please refer to the myAdvisor web site. (http://www.uq.edu.au/myadvisor/index.html?page=2953&pid=2910)Further to the statement on academic integrity and plagiarism above, students are required to read and understand the ITEE policy on Student Misconduct (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/about_ITEE/policies/student-misconduct.html).
The policy and procedure for late arrival or non-attendance at centrally controlled examinations is set out in the University's Examinations policy (HUPP 3.30.5), sections 8 and 10.2.
The way in which late arrival at a School-controlled examination is dealt with will be at the discretion of the course coordinator, who may be guided by the policy for centrally controlled exams.
Where an adjustment is made to an accredited program, it is the responsibility of the relevant Faculty to liaise with professional and registration bodies regarding the acceptability of the change/s.
Below is a table showing the relationship between the learning objectives for this course and the broader graduate attributes developed, the learning activities used to develop each objective and the assessment task used to assess each objective.
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