Week Topic Reading Assignment or Exam
March 29 Course overview, usability principles, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough Rubin ch. 1; Tullis & Albert ch. 1 & ch. 4; Lewis and Rieman ch. 4 (except 4.2)  
April 5 Other walkthroughs course notes  
April 12 Prep for usability testing and testing materials Rubin ch. 5-8; Tullis & Albert ch. 3; Sauro & Lewis ch. 2 Project 1
April 19 Conducting the usability test Rubin ch. 8-10; Tullis & Albert ch. 5; Sauro & Lewis ch. 6  
April 26 Pilot testing (meet as teams)   Project 2
May 3 Writing findings and recommendations Rubin ch. 11-12; Tullis & Albert 2.1-2.3, 2.7, ch. 11; Sauro & Lewis ch. 3 Midterm quiz
May 10 Comparison studies, statistical inferencing, subjective measures Tullis & Albert 2.4; Sauro & Lewis ch. 4 & 8  
May 17 Subjective measures; GOMS KLM and other user modeling Tullis & Albert 2.4; Sauro & Lewis ch. 8, course notes Project 3
May 24 KLM lab; Remote testing and other variants Rubin ch. 13  
May 31 Presentations, Review   Project 4
June 7     Final Exam