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Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration”, Spring Semester 2006
Swiki Page: http://l3dswiki.cs.colorado.edu:3232/dlc-2006
Syllabus and Schedule
Subject to Change
a nicely formatted PDF file (color-coded) of the schedule is available at: schedule-all.pdf
January — Introduction and Overview Lectures
18 (W) Introduction, Discussion of Class
Questionnaire: due 1/23, 10:00am
23 (M) Overview of Design ‡ please read “Some Notes about Design”
Assignment 1 – due: Jan 25, 10:00am
25 (W) Overview of Learning ‡ Fischer, G. (1998) "Making Learning a Part of Life-Beyond the 'Gift-Wrapping' Approach of Technology." Notes from 6/96 NSF Symposium on Learning and Intelligent Systems
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/presentations/gf-wlf/
30 (M) Overview of Collaboration — read: “In Defense of Cheating” by Don Norman; accessible via: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/InDefenseOfCheating.html
Assignment 2 – due: Jan 30, 10:00am
February — Series of Lectures about Design
1 (W) — Simon’s “Architecture of Complexity” and The Importance of Representations in Design – Chapter 8 “The Architecture of Complexity: Hierarchic Systems” in Simon, H. A. (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial, third ed., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (article distributed on paper)
Assignment 3 – due: Feb1, 10:00am
6 (M) Demo of Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (location: L3D Lab) — please read: Arias, E. G., Eden, H., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., & Scharff, E. (2000) "Transcending the Individual Human Mind—Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design," ACM Transactions on Computer Human-Interaction, 7(1), pp. 84-113.
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi2000.pdf
Assignment 4 – due: Feb6, 10:00am
8 (W): Demo of Clever Project — location: L3D Lab — please watch the multi-media representation at: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/clever/index.html — activate link “Load Flash Movie”
Assignment 5 – due: Feb 8, 10:00am
13 (M): Domain-Oriented Design Environments and Critiquing ‡ Fischer, G., Nakakoji, K., Ostwald, J., Stahl, G., & Sumner, T. (1998) "Embedding Critics in Design Environments." In M. T. Maybury & W. Wahlster (Eds.), Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, pp. 537-561. + Video Tape “Janus” http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/embedded-critics-98.pdf
Assignment 6 – due: Feb 13, 10:00am
15 (W): From HCI to Human Problem Domain Interaction ‡ Buxton, W. (2001) "Less is More (More or Less)." In P. J. Denning (Ed.), The Invisible Future — the seamless integration of technology in everyday life, McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 145-179. available at: http://billbuxton.com/LessIsMore.html
IR: INTEREST
20 (M): Role Play Session 1 with the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory — meet in the L3D Lab
22(W): Meta-Design ‡ Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E., Ye, Y., Sutcliffe, A. G., & Mehandjiev, N. (2004) "Meta-Design: A Manifesto for End-User Development," Communications of the ACM, 47(9), pp. 33-37. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/CACM-meta-design.pdf
IR: INITIAL IDEA
27 (M) Guest Lecture — Elisa Giaccardi: "Design and Collaboration in the New Media Arts: A Metadesign Perspective". Papers: (1) Elisa Giaccardi, "Metadesign as an Emergent Design Culture", in Leonardo, 38:4 (August 2005), pp. 342-349, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/leonardo/v038/38.4giaccardi.pdf; (2) Christopher Allen, "Tracing the Evolution of Social Sofware", in Life with Alacrity, October 2004, http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/10/
PROJECT: INTEREST
March — Series of Lectures about Learning
1 (W) Learning: From Speculation to Science ‡ Introduction to Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (2001) How People Learn — Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (article distributed on paper)
6(M) Lifelong Learning and Self-Directed Learning ‡ Fischer, G. (2002) Beyond 'Couch Potatoes': From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors, in FirstMonday (Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet), at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_12/fischer/
PROJECT: INITIAL DESCRIPTION
8 (W) Beyond One-Sided Approaches of Learning ‡ Rogoff, B., Matsuov, E., & White, C. (1998) "Models of Teaching and Learning: Participation in a Community of Learners." In D. R. Olsen & N. Torrance (Eds.), The Handbook of Education and Human Development — New Models of Learning, Teaching and Schooling, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 388-414. (article distributed on paper)
IR: FIRST PROGRESS REPORT
13 (M) Learning on Demand and High-Functionality Applications ‡ Fischer, G. (2001) "User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction," User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 11(2), pp. 65-86. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/umuai2000.pdf
PROJECT: PROPOSAL
15 (W) Role Play Session 2 with the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory — meet in the L3D Lab
20 (M) Pea, R. D. (2004) "The Social and Technological Dimensions of Scaffolding and Related Theoretical Concepts for Learning, Education, and Human Activity," The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(3), pp. 423-451. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/courses/dlc06/Pea-Roy-2004-JLS.pdf
22 (W) Carmien, S., & Fischer, G. (2005) "Tools for Living and Tools for Learning." In, Proceedings of the HCI International Conference (HCII), Las Vegas, July 2005, (published on CD). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tools-hcii-2005.pdf
IR: SECOND PROGRESS REPORT
27 (M) Spring Break – no lecture
29 (W) Spring Break – no lecture
April — Series of Lectures about Collaboration
3 (M) Discussion of Independent Research (IR) and Projects
5 (W) Creativity — Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E., Eden, H., Sugimoto, M., & Ye, Y. (2005) "Beyond Binary Choices: Integrating Individual and Social Creativity," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) Special Issue on Computer Support for Creativity (E.A. Edmonds & L. Candy, Eds.), 63(4-5), pp. 482-512. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ind-social-creativity-05.pdf
PROJECT: FIRST PROGRESS REPORT
10 (M) Guest Lecture — Hal Eden: “Squeak: An Innovative Programming Environment supporting Design, Learning, and Collaboration
12 (W) Themes for Collaboration: Reflective Communities, Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest, Distances in Collaboration, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Collaboration
17 (M) Presentation of Independent Research
IR: FINAL REPORT
19 (W) Presentation of Independent Research
24 (M) Guest Lecture — Yunwen Ye “CodeBroker” ‡ paper: Ye, Y., & Fischer, G. (2005) "Reuse-Conducive Development Environments," International Journal Automated Software Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 12(2), pp. 199-235. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/J-ASE-final.pdf
26 (W) Guest Lecture — Shinichi Konomi: “Context Awareness and Privacy in Collaborative Environments” — paper: Mark Weiser, "The Computer for the Twenty-First Century," Scientific American, pp. 94-10, September 1991 http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html
PROJECT: SECOND PROGRESS REPORT
May — Presentation about Projects
1: Presentation of Projects
PROJECT: FINAL REPORT
3: Presentation of Projects
May 5: last day of classes
schedule-all.pdf