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1997 Page--for that year's student and faculty pages

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1998 Page--for that year's student and faculty pages

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1999 Page--for that year's student and faculty pages

SAU Evaluations 1999 (old form)

2000 Page--for that year's student and faculty pages

SAU Evaluations 2000 (new form)

SAU Evaluations 2001 (new form)
http://act9.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/WebMan/--Psychology Resources on the World Wide Web (full text, restricted)
Guidelines for URLs--style guide for your pages
Clickable Database of Psychology URLs (restricted)
FirstResearch Database of 40,000 URLs

As mentioned in the first class, this course is changing to a more applied focus. It is still a cognitive science course, but now the emphasis will be on more practical issues related cognitive science. So, topics like human factors, interface design, usability, human-computer interaction (HCI), and similar will now be added to the course. The basics of the cognitive science will still be covered, however, in nearly every area the relationships between pure and applied science will be explored. In large part, this redirection is response to the job market. The World Wide Web has spawned a great demand for persons who can meld psychology and technology. As in previous years, students will still create Web-based presentations for presentation in class.
Dice.com--IT job site, check it for jobs in the areas above.
Outline

Date

Presentations

Presenter

Topic

1/15

How to Use the Web, Kardas & Milford 1,Kardas & Milford 2

Kardas

The Internet and the WWW

1/22

Intro to Cog Sci 1, Intro to Cog Sci 2, Top Interfaces ; Interface Hall of Shame (new); Student Interface Nominations (new)

Kardas

Cognitive Science

1/29

How to Make a Web Page

Kardas

HTML and HTML Editors

2/5

Claris Home Page Help

Kardas

HTML Editors

2/12

Kardas on CS History

Kardas

History and People, Test 1

2/19

Kardas on Physiology

Tye, Vandenberg, Hildreth: Researchers discover molecular pacemakers for heart and brain (pdf); Your brain on electricity; Brain parts and functions

Physiology

2/26

Kardas on Vision, Eye, Ganglion/LGN, Cortical, Eye Test, Strong Figure Ground, Ambiguous Figure Ground, Closure, Proximity, Similarity, Continuity1 & Continuity 2, Demo of visual devices

Bland, Henderson, Barron

Visual Displays

3/5

Kardas on Language

Hix, Nix

Languages, Test 2

3/12

Midterm, GUI Interface Principles (Apple)

Kardas

Interfaces

3/19

Spring Break

3/26

Drop Day (3/22), Kardas on Hypermedia

Kardas

Hypermedia

4/2

Kardas on AI

Traylor, Crowder, Sabo

Computers and AI,

4/9

Kardas on Usability

Rowsam, Love, Charlton

Usability, Test 3

4/16

Video demo

Cauley, Davis, Martin

Interaction Devices

4/23

Kardas on Agents

Ervin, Kimbrough, Smith

Collaborative Work,

4/30

New Metaphors for Computing

Lertora, Spratt

New Metaphors

5/7

Kardas on Encryption

Roberts, Ludlam, Dykes

Encryption

5/14

Final Exams

Test 4

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