Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2018 - IAT 884 G300

Special Topics IV (3)

Class Number: 13115

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Fri, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Surrey

Description

COURSE DETAILS:

NOTE:  This course is cross-listed with IAT452. In addition to registering G300 section on Fridays from 9:30 - 12:20, the graduate students must meet with the instructor one additional hour to work on their research-based course project. Although registering in one of G301 (Wednesdays 4:30 - 6:20) or G302 (Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:20) is needed, attendance at these labs is not required. 

IAT846 - Inquiry into Interactive Systems and Supporting Creativity

Creativity support systems influence how we explore, discover, and innovate. Their design, development, and use in practice show significant differences from the typical productivity-focused tools. In this research-based course, the students will develop an understanding of the expected characteristics of such systems, their development and evaluation methods, and speculation of their use in creative decision-making and practices. In a semester-long course project, each student will choose a creative domain in which they will identify an opportunity for supporting the activities in that domain followed by proposing, developing, and evaluating a system to support creativity. This process will involve identification of salient use cases, designing of interactive features including user and system interfaces, and their internal structures. At the end of the term, the students will share their experiences with the class in a research-presentation session to be attended by external guests.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

The course aims to achieve the following educational goals:
1. Form an understanding of cognitive theories related to how people solve problems in the context of tool design,
2. Identify the characteristics of a creativity-support tool by studying how the creative practitioners in different domains--such as designers--work,
3. Explore and develop system ideas for supporting creative work,
4. Define metrics for evaluating creativity-support tools and conduct rapid evaluations,
5. Gain knowledge and skills in creating software systems, such as on object-oriented development, use-case driven process, interaction design etc.

Grading

  • CST Project (Proposal 5, Design and Prototype 40, Evaluation 10, Iteration 5) 60%
  • System-Paper (25) and Presentation (5) 30%
  • Sketch Problems (Two in-class system design exercises 2x5) 10%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Note: The list is an example set of reading material which will be updated as needed.

Shneiderman, B., Fischer, G., Czerwinski, M., Resnick, M., Myers, B. and 13 others, Creativity Support Tools: Report from a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 20, 2 (2006), 61--77.

Terry, M., Mynatt, E.D.: Recognizing creative needs in user interface design. In: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, pp. 38–44. ACM (2002)

Lunzer, A., Hornbæk, K.: Subjunctive interfaces: Extending applications to support parallel setup, viewing, and control of alternative scenarios. ACM Trans. Comput. – Hum. Interact. (TOCHI) 14 (4), 17 (2008)

Terry, M., Mynatt, E.D., Nakakoji, K., Yamamoto, Y.: Variation in element and action: supporting simultaneous development of alternative solutions. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 711 – 718. ACM (2004)

Hartmann, B., Yu, L., Allison, A., Yang, Y., Klemmer, S.R.: Design as exploration: creating interface alternatives through parallel authoring and runtime tuning. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 91 – 100. ACM (2008)

Marks, J., Andalman, B., Beardsley, P., Freeman, W., Gibson, S., Hodgins, J., Kang, T., Mirtich, B., Pfister, H., Ruml, W. et al.: Design galleries: a general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation. In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, pp. 389 – 400. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (1997)

Ulrich, Karl T., Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society (September 27, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1951106

Ben Shneiderman. 2007. Creativity support tools: accelerating discovery and innovation. Commun. ACM 50, 12 (December 2007), 20-32.

Grace, K.; Maher, M. L.; Fisher, D.; and Brady, K. 2014. Data-intensive evaluation of design creativity using novelty, value, and surprise. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation 3(3–4):125–147.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Note: The list is an example set of reading material which will be updated as needed.

Shneiderman, B., Fischer, G., Czerwinski, M., Resnick, M., Myers, B. and 13 others, Creativity Support Tools: Report from a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 20, 2 (2006), 61--77.

Terry, M., Mynatt, E.D.: Recognizing creative needs in user interface design. In: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, pp. 38–44. ACM (2002)

Dow, S.P., Glassco, A., Kass, J., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, D.L., Klemmer, S.R.: Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Trans. Comput. –Hum. Interact. (TOCHI) 17 (4), 18 (2010)

Lunzer, A., Hornbæk, K.: Subjunctive interfaces: Extending applications to support parallel setup, viewing, and control of alternative scenarios. ACM Trans. Comput. – Hum. Interact. (TOCHI) 14 (4), 17 (2008)

Terry, M., Mynatt, E.D., Nakakoji, K., Yamamoto, Y.: Variation in element and action: supporting simultaneous development of alternative solutions. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 711 – 718. ACM (2004)

Hartmann, B., Yu, L., Allison, A., Yang, Y., Klemmer, S.R.: Design as exploration: creating interface alternatives through parallel authoring and runtime tuning. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 91 – 100. ACM (2008)

Marks, J., Andalman, B., Beardsley, P., Freeman, W., Gibson, S., Hodgins, J., Kang, T., Mirtich, B., Pfister, H., Ruml, W. et al.: Design galleries: a general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation. In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, pp. 389 – 400. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (1997)

Simon, H.A.: The Sciences of the Artificial, 1st edn. MIT Press, Cambridge (1969)

Hollan, J., Hutchins, E., Kirsh, D.: Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 7 (2), 174 – 196 (2000)

Ulrich, Karl T., Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society (September 27, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1951106

Ben Shneiderman. 2007. Creativity support tools: accelerating discovery and innovation. Commun. ACM 50, 12 (December 2007), 20-32. 

Thomas T. Hewett. 2005. Informing the design of computer-based environments to support creativity. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 63, 4-5 (October 2005), 383-409. 

Siddhartha Chaudhuri and Vladlen Koltun. 2010. Data-driven suggestions for creativity support in 3D modeling. ACM Trans. Graph. 29, 6, Article 183 (December 2010), 10 pages.

Grace, K.; Maher, M. L.; Fisher, D.; and Brady, K. 2014. Data-intensive evaluation of design creativity using novelty, value, and surprise. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation 3(3–4):125–147.

Steele, Katie and Stefánsson, H. Orri, "Decision Theory", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/decision-theory/>.



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