MEBI 598 Schedule

Notice: Schedule details could change as class progresses

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment Due*

1 Mar 26 Course Overview

Information

 

 

Mar 28 Human Error as a Motivator Felciano's 1995 website

Unruh & Pratt

 
2 Apr 2

The System's Approach

& Information Needs

Churchman

Fabisoff & Ely

 
Apr 4 Clinical Information Needs Studies Forsythe

Covell

 
3 Apr 9 Advanced Research Methods in Studying Information Interactions Suddaby

Fetterman

 
Apr 11 Methods continued & Tips continued McCracken

 

4 Apr 16 Tasks in Bioinformatics

Sharing in Clinical Informatics

Tran et al.

Gorman et al.

 

Apr 18 Scientific Discovery and Interfaces Palmer

Skeels et al.

 

5 Apr 23 User-centered design

Preece, Rogers, & Sharp

 

 
Apr 25 User-centered design

Example: Family Health History Website Design

Johnson

Kinzie

no reading reflections due

Observation Report & brief presentations

6 Apr 30 Scenario-based design & personas Carroll

Pruit & Gruidin

 
May 2 Participatory Design

guest lecture: Meredith Skeels

Muller

Wu

Project plan

 

 

7 May 7 Collaboration and Design Blake & Pratt

Weng, et al.

 
May 9 Mental Models Norman

Muramatsu & Pratt

Paper selection for presentations
8 May 14 Usability Nielsen  
May 16 User-based & expert-based evaluations Preece (expert evaluation section)

Consolvo

Project progress report
9 May 21 Deanna's presentation & Max's presentation Kim

Vogelzang

 
May 23 Jaime's presentation & Terry's presentation Hughes

LaPelle

 
10 May 28

no class

Memorial Day holiday

 

 

May 30 Summary    
Exam June 5,  2-4 pm

MGH 420

Student Presentations final project presentations Project final report