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CS549: HCI in the Real World A Retrospective

Manu Kumar1

WARNING: THIS CLASS IS AN EXPERIMENT!

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Motivation• Take learning *outside* the classroom • Missing bridge between academia and industry • No job title says “HCI” in it • HCI leads to a vast variety of roles

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• Designed as the class I would have wanted to have as an undergrad

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Pre-Requisites• No hard and fast pre-requisites, if space

permits and you have active interest, you are welcome to take this class. !

• Ideal: • CS 147: Intro to HCI • CS 247: HCI Design Studio • CS 376: Research Topics (bonus!) • CS 547: HCI Seminar (bonus!)

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Class Demographics

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Class Format• Series of on-site visits to Bay Area technology

companies • See real-life HCI-practitioners in their own

environment • Hear about how they do in their work life • How did they get there

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• Focus on different types of roles

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Site Visit Format• Wednesday’s from 3:15 PM - 6:05 PM

• Expect to use 1 hour of that as “travel time” since several of the companies we will be visiting will be in San Francisco!

• Sample agenda: • 4:00 PM: Class convenes at off-campus location • 4:00 PM - 4:10 PM: Check-in/Sign-in • 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM: Walking Tour • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM: 2x-3x Presentations/Talks • 5:30 PM - 5:50 PM: Discussion • 5:50 PM: Adjourn

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Grading• Satisfactory / No Credit

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• You must: • Not miss more than 1 class • Participate in the in-class discussion • Participate in the online discussion • Submit a 2-page paper during Finals Week

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My Secret Goals• Influence the direction of someone’s life/

career within 10 weeks !

• Show students what it’s like out there and let them make a better informed decision about what they what they want to do !

• Learn how students perceive HCI at Stanford and beyond • Is there anything we need to change?

Companies & People• Google: Dan Russell, Shumin Zhai, Doantam Phan, Dan Maynes

Aminzade, Ed Chi • Square: Ty Lettau, Lauren Myrick, Maja Henderson • Palantir: Eric Grossman, Agatha Yu, Adam Storr • Facebook: Nam Nguyen, Rousseau Kazi, Peter Deng • Trifacta: Tutti Taygerly +2 • Tangible Play: Jerome Scholler, Karen O’Dell • 3Gear Systems: Robert Wang, Kenrick Kin • Pulse: Akshay Kothari • Dropbox: Gentry Underwood, Scott Cannon • Stanford: Terry Winograd, Michael Bernstein • MSR: Meredith Ringel Morris • Google [X]: Leila Takayama • New Deal Design: Gadi Amit

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Perceptions of HCICS549: HCI in the Real World

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What is HCI?• the study, planning, design and uses of the

interaction between people (users) and computers !

• HCI is different from other Computer Science disciplines in that it’s all about the periphery !

• HCI is ultimately about PEOPLE • the computers do what we design them to do

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What is Design?• to plan and make decisions about (something

that is being built or created) : to create the plans, drawings, etc., that show how (something) will be made !

• to plan and make (something) for a specific use or purpose !

• to think of (something, such as a plan) : to plan

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HCI-Practitioner Roles• Visual Designer • Interaction Designer • Industrial Designer • Usability Analyst • Front-end Engineer • Product Manager • Startup Founder • Physical/Tangible Product Designer • Researcher/Academic

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RetrospectiveCS549: HCI in the Real World

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Questions• Did the students find the class useful?

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• What did students learn? !

• What do students want more of? !

• What did I learn?

Did the students find the class useful?

What did students learn?

What do students want more of?

What did I learn?

Thank you!• Michael Bernstein for sponsoring this class

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• To all the Companies and Speakers who contributed their time and learning to the class !

• To the students who made this class engaging, challenging, and enlightening

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