Syllabus and Schedule
Last modified by Hal Eden on 2010/08/20 11:06
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CSCI 3002-001: Digital and Social Systems Foundations and CSCI 7000-002: Current Topics in Computer Science: Digital and Social Systems Foundations |
Fall Semester 2008 |
Syllabus and Schedule
forDigital and Social Systems Foundations
(Subject to Revisions)and
Hal Eden (haleden@colorado.edu)
Location: ITLL 1B50
This course will introduce the foundations for Digital and Social Systems (DSS). As computing is changing our lives, this transformation is shaped not only by technology but also by how people express themselves, how they think, how they interact with computational artifacts, and how they collaborate with other humans. The broad-based research area of DSS will prepare students to contribute to this accelerating global process. Students will learn about, design, develop, and assess socio-technical environments that tie together technology with communication, collaboration, and other social processes to address the challenges and opportunities of our future world. The course will cover practice and research in human computer interaction, design of interactive systems, computer supported cooperative work, computer supported collaborative learning, educational technology, tools that support creativity, user-developed knowledge collections, and gaming. Remark about Follow-Up Course in Spring 2009 In the Spring Semester 2009, I will offer the following course (for which the above course in the Fall of 2008 will provide important foundations): CSCI 4412 taught jointly with CSCI-5412: "Design, Creativity and New Media" This course will explore the design of new media and technologies to support design and creativity. It will analyze design and creativity as human activities of fundamental importance in the networked information culture and economy. It will provide theoretical and practical analysis of new media. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor or CSCI 3002 / CSCI 7000-002.
Schedule:
here is the schedule as a PDF file:SCHEDULE-gerhard.pdfGrader for this Course:
Holger Dick (holger.dick@colorado.edu) will be the grader for this course. He is also an expert in the use of the course environment ("wiki") used for this class.Textbook
Shneiderman, B. (2002) Leonardo's Laptop - Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.Course Structure and Major Components
Participation in Class and in the Course Environment
The class meetings will be discussion-oriented requiring that the students can act as informed participants and active contributors. The course environment (a wiki-based system) will be used as the medium to provide lecture material, to deposit the assignments, to support discussions among the participants, and to document the work on the independent research project.Assignments
To encourage and motivate the students to inform themselves in order to act as active participants during class meetings, assignments will given and the answers to these assignments will be deposited in the course information environment.Independent Research Project
Students will be required to engage in independent research (such as: studying a set of articles or a book, doing empirical analysis about specific digital and social systems. contributing to sites with user-generated content, design or evolving some system).Guest Lectures
The CS department has several faculty members engaged in research in DSS. This foundation course will present the different research activities by guest lectures from the respective faculty members. Other guest lecture will illustrate the importance of DSS in industry and demonstrate the impact of a DSS perspective on the development of major innovative systems.Grades:
- Assignments 30%
- Involvement in Course Environment and Class 30%
- Independent Research Project 30%
- Self Assessment 10%
- There will be no final exam!
