COSC 419: Topics in Computer Science

Intelligent User Interfaces

Administration

Evaluation Criteria

Grading: Total 100%

25% Assignments (see review format, download Word template)
25% Paper presentations (see presenter responsibilities)
50% Project Implementation and Checkpoint Presentations (see project expectations)

Note: All assignments are due at 9:00am on the day of the reading. All presentations are to be done in class on the day of the scheduled presentation.

Late Policy: No late work will be accepted unless a medical note is provided.

Students MUST achieve a passing grade on all the course components in order to pass the course. Failure to do so will result in a 45% grade, or the resulting grade, whichever is the lowest.

Important Dates

See http://okanagan.students.ubc.ca/calendar/

Tentative Schedule

Week	Date	Readings	Presenter
1	05/13	Course Overview slides An Introduction to Intelligent User Interfaces (Wahlster & Maybury 1998) pdf Reflections on Challenges and Promises of Mixed-Initiative Interaction (Horvitz 2007) pdf Study: Formal logic pdf, probability theory pdf	Bowen Bowen
1	05/16	Adaptable Interfaces Systems that Adapt to their Users (Jameson & Gajos 2012) Socially-Adaptable Interfaces: Crowdsourcing Customization (Lafreniere & Terry 2011) pdf Study: Decision trees and expected value pdf 1, pdf 2	Bowen Brayden
2	05/20	Holiday - no class
2	05/23	Adaptive Interfaces Principles of Mixed-Initiative (Horvitz 1999) pdf Natural Language Interfaces A Personality-based Framework for Utterance Generation in Dialogue Applications (Mairesse & Walker 2008) pdf (long version: pdf)	Ethan Raffi
3	05/27	Natural Language Interfaces The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books (Acerbi, Lampos, Garnett, Bentley 2013) pdf A Natural Language Interface for Data Warehouse Question Answering (Kuchmann-Beauger & Aufaure 2011) pdf Project Proposal Submission and Presentations	Matt Duncan Everyone
3	05/30	Socia Media Analysis Towards Personality Insights from Language Exploration in Social Media (Schwartz, Eichstaedt, Dziurzynski, Kern, Seligman, Ungar 2013) pdf Effects of User Similarity in Social Media (Anderson, Huttenlocher, Kleinberg, Leskovec 2012) pdf	Peter Bowen
4	06/03	Social Media Analysis Predicting the Future with Social Media (Asur & Huberman 2010) pdf Modeling Topic Specific Credibility in Twitter (Kang, O'Donovan, Hollerer 2012) pdf Study: causality, (dynamic) Bayesian network, inference pdf 1, pdf 2	Rodney Peter
4	06/06	User Types The Lumiere Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the Goals and Needs of Software Users (Horvitz, Breese, Heckerman, Hovel, Rommelse 1998) pdf Who's Asking for Help? A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Assistance (Hui & Boutilier 2006) pdf Study: hypothesis testing pdf, experiment design pdf	Matt Ethan
5	06/10	class rescheduled to 06/24	N/A
5	06/13	User Types The Need for an Interaction Cost Model in Adaptive Interfaces (Hui, Gustafson, Irani, Boutilier 2008) pdf A Probabilistic Mental Model for Estimating Disruption (Hui, Partridge, Boutilier 2009) pdf Study: preferences and lotteries pdf	Matt Ethan
6	06/17	User Types Toward Experiential Utility Elicitation for Interface Customization (Hui & Boutilier 2008) pdf Activity Recognition Human Activity Analysis: A Review (Aggarwal & Ryoo 2011) pdf -- sections 1 (all), 2.0 (skip 2.1, 2.2, etc.), 3.0, and 4.0 Study: other graphical models html	Bowen Peter
6	06/20	IUI in the Industry -- register for the Metabridge 2013 Cascadia Event at Eventbrite identify 3 products presented, along with the name of the presenter and the time of presentation for each product, explain what the IUI aspect is, and if there is none, describe how the product could have been designed to include IUI expected length for each product and IUI description: 0.5 page write-up due 9:00am 06/21	N/A
7	06/24	Project Final Presentations	Everyone