LIS 575, Human Factors in Information Systems: Requirements

Spring, 1997, Martin Frické

Requirements

The course requirements are a) a coursework requirement and b) a final examination. The coursework requirement will be, by default, two papers, one due about 4 weeks and the other 8 weeks into the course, at times to be announced in class. The intention, though, is that this course will in part be doing interface design, rather than just talking about interface design. In which case, approved practical projects or seminars would be welcome substitutes for one or both papers. The final examination will be a take-home exam of three hours duration. It will be handed out on Monday May 5th and has to be returned to my mailbox at latest by Monday May 12th at 4.00pm.

Grading

I use the following scales

Internal	Internal	For Graduate School
90-100%	A+	A
85-89%	A	A
80-84%	A-	A
75-79%	B+	B
70-74%	B	B
65-69%	B-	B
below 64%	C	C

Thus, for example, a mark of Internal: 82 A- External: A on a piece of work would be seen by outsiders as an A; however, the A- will convey to you that the work can be improved.

The coursework will count for 50% of the final grade, and the final exam for 50% of the grade.

Academic Code of Integrity

Students are expected to abide by The University of Arizona Code of Academic Integrity. 'The guiding principle of academic integrity is that a student's submitted work must be the student's own.' If you have any questions regarding what is acceptable practice under this Code, please ask an instructor.

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There is a listserv for this course. Most of you will be familiar with listservs. But if not: there are two email addresses you need to deal with. The first is for joining or leaving a particular group. The second is for sending messages to a group that you have joined

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A trap for young players-- remember that if you read a message from a listserv then hit 'reply 'on your emailer you will be replying to all other members of the listserv (this may not be what you intend, you may wish to send a reply only to the person posting (in which case extract their email address and go from there)).

GAT

Chris Vlitas is the GAT for this course. His email address is cwv@gas.uug.arizona.edu. He is a friendly and helpful fellow-- please use him for assistance or to ferry requests through to me.

Contacting me

Please raise queries in class, or by email to Fricke@ccit.arizona.edu or in Room 16 during Office Hours (Monday 11-2, and Wednesday 11-2).