[L3d-local] User Interface Design Practicum Call for Proposals

[Katie A. Siek]

User Interface Design Practicum -- Call for Project Proposals
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Do you have a user interface design project that you need help with?  
Every year, small teams of graduate and undergraduate students work  
on community or faculty-sponsored projects as part of a user  
interface design course. We are currently seeking projects for this  
spring semester's course, which will begin on January 14, 2008. If  
you have a project you would like to submit, please send the  
following information to Katie Siek (ksiek at cs.colorado.edu) by  
Thursday, January 10:

- Title of the Project
- Sponsor's Name and Email contact
- Brief description of the project: What is it about? Who is it for?  
Why is it useful or interesting?

Examples of last year's project proposals (from prospective sponsors)  
and final project reports (from the students) are available on the  
web (sign in as "guest" when queried):

Example Proposals:
http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=4530

Example Reports:
http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu/mod/wiki/view.php?id=2809

More information on the course (Dr. Siek will teach it this semester):
http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=4523

What you can expect:
If your project is selected, a group of three to five students will  
spend considerable time and effort working on your project from the  
beginning of January until early May. Depending upon the specific  
demands of the project, the students will interview representative  
users to formulate a user-centered design brief; develop and evaluate  
mock-ups of several alternative designs; evaluate these designs and  
develop a prototype, which they will then test with users. Projects  
that primarily emphasize programming are inappropriate.

Project sponsors should be willing to meet with the students early on  
in the semester to discuss the project and, minimally, to meet with  
them monthly until the completion of the project. Other arrangements  
can be made for sponsors who are geographically distant.

Please note that the User Interface Design course will also be  
offered in Fall 2008.  You will have the opportunity to submit (or  
resubmit) proposals once again in late summer for a September start.

Please contact Katie Siek (ksiek at cs.colorado.edu) if you have any  
questions about the course or potential projects you would like to  
discuss. A second CFP will be sent in mid-December as a reminder.

Katie Siek
Course Instructor: CSCI 4838/6838 - User Interface Design

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Katie A. Siek
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ksiek





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