HCC Course Contents Fall 1999

Area	Date	Topic
Overview	8/23/99	Course overview, impact of IT.
	8/25/99	Ubiquitous and calm computing.
	8/30/99	Information appliances.
Individual Behavior	9/1/99	Representations and things that make us smart.
	9/8/99	Cognition as process: GOMS and EPIC.
	9/13/99	Constructionism, LOGO, Piaget and Papert.
	9/15/99	Personality theories: Big-5 and Myers-Briggs.
	9/20/99	Emotion and Affect.
Communication	9/22/99	Speech Act Theory.
	9/27/99	Media Richness.
	9/29/99	Assessing others: Attributions.
	10/4/99	Persuasion.
	10/6/99	Non-verbal communication.
Activity Theory and its Relatives	10/11/99	Learning as a social process: Vygotsky.
	10/13/99	Scaffolding and ZPD.
	10/18/99	Practice and peripheral partiticipation.
	10/20/99	Distributed Cognition.
	10/25/99	Activity Theory overview.
	10/27/99	More on Activity theory.
	11/1/99	Applications of activity theory.
Social and Knowledge Structures	11/3/99	Social network theory: Centrality and prestige.
	11/8/99	Social network theory: Role and position.
	11/10/99	Diffusion of information in social networks.
	11/15/99	Ecologies of knowledge.
Design and Knowledge Creation	11/17/99	Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge.
	11/22/99	Contexts for Knowledge Creation.
	11/24/99	Participatory Evolutionary Design
	11/29/99	Process vs. Improvisation
	12/1/99	Where to?