| DATE | TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS |
| Unit 1: Understanding information and people’s information behavior and practices
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| Sep 2 | Introduction to the
Review of the syllabus
Introduction to the history of user studies (1): Scientists and engineers |
| READ: | Brown & Duguid (2002), Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, and
Chapters 1 and 6
Borgman (2007b) CD
Dervin & Nilan (1986) CD
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| AS: | Delamont & Atkinson (2001) online
Garvey (1979)
Israel (2001)
Maher (1986)
Subramanyam (1979)
Tenopir et al. (2005)
Turnbaugh (1986) |
| Sep 9 | History of user studies (2): Beyond professional work to ordinary people and ordinary tasks
“Information literacy” and introduction to interaction design |
| READ: | Norman (2002), Prefaces to 2002 and 1988 editions, Chapters 1 and 2
Sharp et al. (2007), Foreword, Preface, and Chapter 1 CD
Eisenberg & Berkowitz (2008) online
Bates (2005a) CD
Kuhlthau (2005) CD
Lowe & Eisenberg (2005) CD |
| AS: | Bishop et al. (2001)
Barton & Hamilton (1998a)
Borgman et al. (1995) online
Cooper (2002a)
Eisenberg & Spitzer (1991)
Fidel et al. (1999) online
Marcum (2002) online
Large (2004)
Large et al. (2002) online
Walter (1994) |
| • DUE: Formation of groups – GRP |
| Sep 16 | Exploring the concept of information (1): Cognition, mentalist
metaphors, and the “content/conduit” distinction |
| READ: | Brown & Duguid (2002), 2 and 3
Norman (2002), 3 and 4
Wilson (2000) online
Bates (2005b) CD
Belkin (2005) CD
MacMullin & Taylor (1984) CD
Reddy (1993) CD
Weaver (1949) CD |
| AS: | Cole (1994)
Cornelius (2002)
Losee (1990a)
Losee (1997)
Scarrott (1994) |
| Sep 23 | David Todd and Quinn Stewart – introduction to the Texas Legacy
Quinn Stewart – using GlifosMedia to support the Texas Legacy ProjectProject |
| AS: | Daft & Weick (1984)
Davenport & Hall (2002)
Dervin (1976)
Gardner (1983)
Granovetter (1973)
Lave (1988) passim
Lave & Wenger (1992) passim
Wenger (1998) passim |
| • DUE: Paper on models of information behavior (5 pp.) (15%)
• DUE: Choice of user group – GRP |
| Sep 30 | Exploring the concept of information (2): Materialist and practice-oriented views and critiquing the “content/conduit” distinction
Communities of practice |
| READ: | Brown & Duguid (2002), 4 and 5
Norman (2002), 6 and 7
Brown & Duguid (1991) online
Nunberg (1996b) online
Widén-Wulff & Ginman (2004) online
Davies (2005) CD
Hersberger (2005) CD
Nahl (2007) CD
Star et al. (2003) CD
Schiller (1988) CD
Tidline (2005) CD |
| AS: | Bates (1989)
Belkin, Oddy, & Brooks (1982 a and b)
Case (2002) passim especially 6
Enser (2008)
Harter & Hert (1997)
Kuhlthau (1993a)
Ruthven (2008)
Schamber (1994)
Swanson (1988)
Vakkari & Sormunen (2004) online |
| • DUE: Institutional review board (IRB) training |
| Oct 7 | More on interaction
GUEST – introduction to information retrieval and relevance |
| READ: | Sharp et al. (2007), 3 CD
Suchman (1987), Preface, Acknowledgements, and Chapters 1-3
Barry & Schamber (1998) online
Choi & Rasmussen (2003) online
Kuhlthau (1991) online |
| AS: | Sharp et al. (2007), 2 |
| Oct 14 | Designing for error and affect
Introduction to interfaces
GUEST Luis Francisco-Revilla – introduction to interfaces |
| READ: | Sharp et al. (2007), 5 and 6 (pp. 219-251) CD
Suchman (1987), 4 and 5
Norman (2002), 5
Parker & Berryman (2007) CD
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| AS: | Sharp et al. (2007), 4 |
| • DUE: Paper on Brown & Duguid (2002) and Suchman (1987) (5 pp.) (20%) |
| Oct 21 | | More on interfaces |
| READ: | Sharp et al. (2007), 6 (pp. 251-285) and 9 (pp. 412-444 and 464-470) CD
Suchman (1987), 6-8 |
| • DUE: Abstract of TX Legacy Web site or Wiki (2 pp.) – GRP |
| Oct 28 | Prototyping |
| READ: | Sharp et al. (2007), 11 CD |
| AS: | Sharp et al. (2007), 12, 13, and 14 |
| • DUE: TX Legacy video annotation (10%) |
| • DUE: GlifosMedia diary (3 pp.) (5%) |
| Unit 2: Providing information services
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| Nov 4 | The information intermediary
Public information services
PANEL DISCUSSION |
| READ: | Abbott (1998) online
Ehrlich & Cash (1999) online
Nardi & O’Day (2003) CD
Taylor (1968) CD
Yakel (2000) CD |
| AS: | Abbott (1988)
Duff & Johnson (2002) online
Edwards (2005) CD
Marshall (2003)
Nunberg (1998) online
Ortega y Gassett (1975)
Palmquist (2005) CD
Schön (1983)
Taylor (1986a)
Taylor (1986b)
Tissing (1984) |
| Nov 11 | What is censorship?
Policy analysis and Internet filters
Invisible and articulation work |
| READ: | American Library Association (2004) online
Asheim (1953) CD
Asheim (1983) CD
Curry Jansen (1991) CD
Nardi & Engeström (1999) online
Star & Strauss (1999) online
Suchman (1996)
U.S. v. ALA (2003) on Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) online [the plurality opinion by Rehnquist, the two concurring opinions by Kennedy and Breyer, and the two dissenting opinions by Stevens and Souter] |
| AS: | Heins et al. (2006) online
Hilden (2003)
Janes (2001)
Janes (2002) online
Nardi & O’Day (1999), 7 (“Librarians: A Keystone Species,” pp. 79-104)
Preer (1994)
Tucker (1981)
Wasik (2005)
White (2001) online |
| • DUE: Annotated bibliography (10%) – GRP |
| Unit 3: Students’ research
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| Nov 18 | Narrative
What are documents? |
| READ: | Brown & Duguid (2002), 7 and 8
Bishop (1999) online
Buckland (1997) online
Borgman (2007a) CD
Levy (2003) CD
McKechnie et al. (2007) CD |
| AS: | Andersen (2008)
Borges (1964)
Crane (1991)
Eco (1984)
Geertz (1983) CD
Leckie (2005) CD |
| • DUE: TX Legacy Project Web site OR Wiki (20%) – GRP
• DUE: Presentation on user group and TX Legacy Web site OR Wiki – GRP |
| Nov 25 | Indexicality, interpretation, and beyond the “view from nowhere” |
| READ: | Brown & Duguid (2002), Afterword
Cornelius (1996a) CD
Long (1993) CD |
| AS: | August (2001)
Augst & Wiegand (2001)
Nagel (1986)
Toms & Duff (2002) online
Wiegand (2003) |
| Dec 2 | Course evaluation
Summary discussion |
| • DUE: Research proposal (5-7 pp.)(5%) – GRP |
