Course Opportunity this Spring—HCDE 496/596 (Directed Research: Remotely Assessing the User Experience)
We are looking for CSE and iSchool students to help us develop an open source software toolkit (WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us develop our toolkit.
Spring 2013 activities that would be of interest to CSE and iSchool students include:
- PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
- User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, Drupal theming)
- Quality assurance testing
Individual students will drive the development and testing of a feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a senior graduate student and faculty member.
Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5 credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on average, three hours of effort per credit per week. We will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00. Interested students should send a short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining their interest in the group and suggesting what software development strengths they could contribute to the group.
Thank you,
Jan
Jan Spyridakis
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
206-685-1557 (fax 206-543-8858)
http://www.hcde.uw.edu/jansp