INFO 6135 - Developing Research Agendas in HCI Engineering

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: Cornell Tech PhD students. Offered in New York City at Cornell Tech.

T. Roumen.

The focus of this course is to create a research agenda in technical HCI. We will study how people go about creating an agenda instead of individual projects. To this end, we will look at the work of recent PhD graduates, understand their contributions to technical HCI and what methods they use to validate these contributions. Beyond that, we also look at how their projects form a larger agenda and what patterns they use to develop such an agenda. In the first half of the course, we practice this by looking at recent graduates who have a complete agenda, in the second half, we move on to explore what an agenda could look like for very recent papers, including those of students taking the class.

Outcome 1: Understand types of contributions to technical HCI and related validation methods.

Outcome 2: Analyze research agendas in technical HCI to identify underlying patterns.

Outcome 3: Explore how such patterns apply to recent research papers, what should they research next?

Outcome 4: Demonstrate your understanding of these agendas by applying their patterns to your own research.