Grading:

Homework is due midnight (11:59pm). Each day late will result in a 20% deduction (maximum 60% off). 

The mid-term and final examinations will take place in the form of a term project. The project will include 3-4 students, and will go through a complete cycle of user-centered design processes for an application or interaction technology that solves a real-world problem. The final course grade will be based on:

• In-class activities (10%)
  • Students will take part in lecture discussion, seminar presentation, and design workshops 
• Assignment and in-class quiz (40%)
  • Students will complete various writing, design and analytics assignments, and in-class quiz
• Mid-term group project (10%): group presentation and report 
• Final Project: 40% + 10% bonus
  • Low-fidelity prototype 
  • Working prototype 
  • Evaluation 
  • Final presentation
  • Project report
  • Media: website, video demo
• (Optional) Students are encouraged to submit their work as a poster or work-in-progress paper to HCI related juried-reviewed conferences (e.g. CHI student research competition), or local, regional or national student research consortiums 

Attendance:

If a student cannot attend the class due to a planned event (e.g., conference), s/he must notify the instructor one week ahead of time. For unforeseen reasons (e.g., illness, family emergency), the student should let the instructor know before 9am on the day of the class. In both cases, the student may be asked to submit assigned in-classroom activities for course make-up. 

Students with special needs:

• Please set up a meeting with the student disability service office and meet with the course instructor to discuss necessary accommodations within the first two weeks

Technology used in classroom

• Blackboard: course announcement, course information and materials, lecture recordings, assignment submission and grading
• Slack: all other communications (with instructor, TAs, classmate) 
• E-mail: only for urgent communication 

Academic honesty: 

• All assignments and activities associated with this course must be performed in accordance with the University of Rochester's Academic Honesty Policy. More information is available at: www.rochester.edu/college/honesty
• For individual course assignments, students can discuss with classmates for questions related to the assignments. However, all written reports and coding for individual projects must be done independently, represent your own work and not be completed in collaboration with others. 
• For the group project, the team report is required to provide a clear statement of the contributions of each member of your group to the group activities. The mid-term and final project report will be graded based on individual’s contribution. If you feel that problems are developing in your group project, you should come to see the instructor as soon as possible, so that the instructor can provide general guidance to group members to set your activities on the right course. Students are permitted and encouraged to share project materials with group members and write the report as a group effort. Therefore, it is important to understand that you are responsible for the academic integrity of the entire report, including contributions of other group members. To avoid potential problems with academic honesty (and to more fully engage in the project), student should be involved in various aspects of writing the report and verify that citations are correct and that all text is accurately cited and not plagiarized. All team members are responsible for the entire assignment, it is incumbent upon each of you to ensure the integrity of the project.
• Sharing/posting course material online without notifying/obtaining permission from instructors is strictly prohibited. 

Classroom requirement 

• Don’t use laptops and mobile phones in classroom (except for certain in-class activities). 
• Be respectful to the instructor, TAs, guest speakers, and all peer students.