Course Schedule:
Week 1- (Aug. 28, 2003) Course Overview,
Introduction, Initial Group Setup
Primary Readings
- Course Syllabus (reviewed in class)
Deliverables
- Personal Introductions
- Project Overview and Initial Planning
- Site Analysis, part 1
- Individual Research Topic Selection
Week 2 - (Sept. 4, 2003) XIA
Primary Readings
- Beck, K. (1999). Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change: Chapters 1-5
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Project Planning and Feature Selection
- Individual Sites Analysis
- Initial Role Assignments
- Individual Research Topic Selection Finalized
Week 3 - (Sept.11, 2003) XIA 2 [Top]
Primary Readings
- Beck, K. (1999). Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change: Chapters 6 - end of book
Deliverables
- Project Work
- Role Updates
- Research Topic Presentations Finalized
- Project Specification and Initial Test Cases
Week 4 - (Sept.18, 2003) Web Standards [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing
With Web Standards: Chapters 1-5
Deliverables
- Project Work
- Role Updates
- Presentations Begin
Week 5 - (Sept. 25, 2003) Web Development [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web Standards: Chapters 6-8
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
- Role Updates
- Class Work: User Stories
- Class Work: Navigation
Week 6 - (Oct. 2, 2003) Interfaces, Browsers and Browsing
[Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web Standards: Chapters 11-14, Appendix
Secondary Readings
- TBA
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
- Role Updates
Week 7 - (Oct. 9, 2003) Cascading Style Sheets [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web Standards: Chapters 9-10
- Schmitt, C. (2002).Designing CSS Web Pages: Chapters 1-2
Secondary Readings
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
- Role Updates
Week 8 - (Oct 16, 2003) Cascading Style Sheets [Top]
Primary Readings
- Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing With Web Standards: Chapters 16
- Schmitt, C. (2002).Designing CSS Web Pages Chapters 3-5
Secondary Readings
- TBA
Deliverables
- Pair Programming - CSS
- Presentations Continue
- Pair Programming - XML
- Web version of Research Paper Due
Week 9 - (Oct. 23, 2003) Class Work Day [Top]
Week 10 - (Oct. 30, 2003) Web Programming - Interacting with Web Servers [Top]
Primary Readings
- Schmitt, C. (2002).Designing CSS Web Pages: Chapters 6-7
- Various Web Sites Examined in Class
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
Week 11 - (Nov. 6, 2003) Web Servers- Server Log Analysis [Top]
Primary Readings
- Extended Log File Format - W3C Working Draft WD-logfile-960323
- Haigh, Susan and Megarity, Janette. (1998). Measuring
Web Site Usage: Log File Analysis. Network Notes #57. ISSN
1201-4338. Information Technology Services Report, National Library of
Canada.
- Silverstein, C., Henzinger, M., Marias, H., & Moricz, M. Analysis of a Very Large Altavista Query Log Techical Report- Digital Systems Research Center. Octover 26,1998. 1998-014.
- Nielsen, Jakob. (1998). Tracking the Growth of a Site. Alterbox Report.
- Calore, Michael. (2001). Log File Lowdown. Lycos-WIRED Webmonkey
- Webmonkey Staff (2000-2001) eBusiness:
Tracking. Lycos-WIRED Webmonkey.
Secondary Readings
- WebTrends Log Analyzer Series Datasheet
- Cooley, R. W., B. Mobasher, et al. (1999). "Data Preparation for Mining World Wide Web Browsing Patterns." Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Fayyad, U., G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, et al. (1996). "The KDD Process for
Extracting Useful Knowledge from Volumes of Data." Communications
of the ACM 39(11): 27-34.
- Jansen, B. J., A. Spink, et al. (1998). Real
Life Information Retrieval: A Study of User Queries on the Web.
SIGIR Forum: A Publication of the Special Interest Group on Information
Retrieval. 32: 5-18.
- Pitkow, J. E. (1997). In Search of
Reliable Usage Data on the WWW. Sixth International World Wide Web
Conference, Santa Clara, CA.
- Wu, K.-l., P. S. Yu, et al. (1998). "Speedtracer: A web usage mining and analysis tool." IBM Systems Journal 37(1): 89-105.
- Recker, M. R. and J. E. Pitkow (1996). Predicting Document Access in Large, Multimedia Repositories. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 3(4), pp 352-375.
Tools
Deliverables
- Presentations Continue
- First Research Paper Due
Week 12 - (Nov. 13, 2003) Search Engines and Optimization [Top]
Primary Readings
- Brin, S and Page, L. (1998) The
anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. World Wide
Web 7 Conference.
- Jansen, B.J. and Pooch, U. (2001). A Review of Web Searching Studies and a Framework for Future Research. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 52(3). 235-246.
- Bazaac, D. (2002) The Meta Search Engines: A Web Searcher's Best Friends. October 10, 2002 from evolt.org.
- Thurow, S. (2002) Search
Engine Visibility. New Riders. (Bonus Materials!)
Secondary Readings
- Meng, W., Yu, C., Liu, K. (2002) Building
efficient and effective metasearch engines. (via CiteSeer)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 34:1. - Crossen, A., Budzik, J., Warner, M., Birnbaum, L and Hammond,
K.J.. XLibris:
an automated library research assistant. Proceedings of the 6th
international conference on Intelligent user interfaces. 49-52.
Deliverables
- Group Project Plan Review
- Presentations continue
Week 13 - (Nov. 20, 2003) Captology and Persuasive Technology [Top]
Primary Readings
- Fogg, B.J., Marshall, J., Othman, L., et. al. (2001) What Makes A Web
Site Credible? A Report on a Large Quantitative Study. Proceedings
of ACM CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, v. 1,
61-68. New York: ACM Press.
- Stanford Guildelines for Web Credibility. (2002) Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab.
Secondary Readings
- Persuasive Technologies in Education- Stanford EDU 225X Class Website
- Fogg, B.J. (2002) Persuasive
Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do.
Morgan-Kaufmann. Book's Web Site.
- Chak, Andrew. (2003) Submit
Now: Designing Persuasive Websites. New Riders.
- Chark, Andrew (2003) Getting
Users to Click.
- Stanford Web Credibility Research
- Stanford Persuasive
Technology Lab
Deliverables
- Second Research Paper Due
- User Story Testing - Design Walk-through
- Presentations continue
Week 14 - (Nov. 27, 2003) Holiday Vacation [Top]
Week 15 - (Dec. 4, 2003) XIA Revisited [Top]
Deliverables
- Group Project Final in-class Review