Desktop-based User Interfaces for Computer Applications - 2D Graphical User Interfaces
Module IN 2112 Vorlesung + Übungen im Sommersemester 2008Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D. (mit Florian Echtler und Patrick Maier) 2V+2Ü
5 ECTS Credits The class will be taught in English. RECOMMENDED EVENT: Film presentation "Weizenbaum - Rebel at work" in Hörsaal 1 on July 3, 16:30 Uhr.
More information at http://www.in.tum.de/Weizenbaum
Time & Location
Lecture: Wednesdays 10:15 - 11:45, MI 03.13.010Exercises: Wednesdays 12:30 - 14:00, MI 03.13.010
Starting date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Exercises start: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Content
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Intended audience:- Diploma students: Hauptstudium Informatik I (Praktische Informatik)
- Senior bachelor students with interest in pursuing a bachelor's thesis in this area
- Master students (Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bioinformatik)
- Grundstudium Informatik or Bachelor Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bioinformatik
- Oral exams (20 minutes) during the last week of the semester and the first weeks of the summer holidays.
- Languages: German or English
- Registration for exams now open!
- By appointment (email to Prof.Klinker)
Schedule (subject to change)
| Date | Subject | links to slides (restricted) |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 16 | 1. Introduction and overview | L1-Overview.pdf |
| Apr 23 | 2. Human factors | L2-HumanFactors.pdf |
| Apr 30 | FVV: no class | |
| May 7 | 3. Theories, principles and guidelines | L3-GuiPrinTheo.pdf |
| May 14 | continued | |
| May 21 | 4. Evaluating user interface designs | L4-Evaluation.pdf |
| May 28 | 5. Design process | L5-DevelopmentProcesses.pdf |
| June 4 | special lecture: Simon Nestler | |
| June 11 | 6. User interface software tools | L6-SWTools.pdf |
| June 18 | 7. Interaction styles: direct manipulation, virtual environments | L7-DirManipVEs.pdf |
| June 25 | 8. Interaction styles: menu selection form fillin, dialog boxes 9. interaction devices | L8-MenusFormsDialogs.pdf L9-InteractionDevices.pdf |
| July 2 | 10. Interaction styles: collaboration | L10-Collaboration.pdf |
| July 9 | Lab visits | |
| July 16 | Exam |
Excercises
Date  | Toppic | Excercises | Attachments | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23 | Installation of Eclipse and J2ME | HelloWorld Midlet | tutorial1.pdf | Apr 30 |
| Apr 30 | Canvas, Layer, Sprite and LayerManager | SimpleList Widget | tutorial2.pdf | May 14 |
| July 2 | lab day | music_new.xml | ||
| July 9 | Final Presentation | x | x | x |
| June 11 | Creating a treeview | Treeview Demo | tutorial5.pdf | June 25 |
| June 18 | lab day | |||
| June 25 | Evaluation of input concepts | x | tutorial6.pdf tutorial5/ | July 9 |
| June 4 | lab day | |||
| May 14 | Loading and storing real-world data | List + Datastore Demo | tutorial3.pdf music.xml | May 28 |
| May 21 | lab day | |||
| May 28 | Mobile Media API | Fisheye Demo | tutorial4.pdf | June 11 |
| May 7 | lab day |
Literature
The lecture will be based on the book:- Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4. ed.) by: Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. Pearson International Edition. Addison-Wesley Pearson Education, 2005. ISBN 0-321-26978-0.
- Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millenium by: John M. Caroll (ed.). Addison Wesley Pearson Education, 2001. http://www.aw.com/cseng/. ISBN 0-201-70447-1.
- Usability Engineering by: Jakob Nielsen. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. ISBN 0-12-518406-9.
- The Design of Everyday Things by: Donald A. Norman. Basic Books, 2002. ISBN 0-465-06710-7.
- MIDP 2.0 API Reference
- J2ME Polish is a nice package to get ideas for the design of your midlet
- Nokia S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for Java
