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Coding For The Public Good: Front-End Website Design And Development, Devorah Kletenik
Coding For The Public Good: Front-End Website Design And Development, Devorah Kletenik
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This activity helps student design and develop a front-end of a website, from wireframes through HTML/CSS/Javascript. It includes design questions for students, including the invocation of Ben Schneiderman's eight golden rules for interface design.
Note: this activity assumes prior knowledge of web development. Since this activity is designed for an HCI course, with a focus on interface design, students are not expected to create a back-end for it. This activity can obviously be modified for a full-stack experience.
Needfinding, Devorah Kletenik
Needfinding, Devorah Kletenik
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This activity guides students through the process needfinding to identify areas of need for their creation of a technology for the "public good." Students will conduct contextual inquiry to identify the needs of their target audience.
Personas, Scenarios And Storyboards, Devorah Kletenik
Personas, Scenarios And Storyboards, Devorah Kletenik
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This activity guides students towards the creation of personas, scenarios and storyboards for a product/website that they are creating.
Public Interest Technology: Coding For The Public Good, Devorah Kletenik
Public Interest Technology: Coding For The Public Good, Devorah Kletenik
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These slides are used to guide a discussion with students introducing them to the notion of public interest technology and coding for the public good. The lesson is intended to spark a discussion with students about different sorts of technology and their societal ramifications.
Accessibility: The Whys And The Hows, Devorah Kletenik
Accessibility: The Whys And The Hows, Devorah Kletenik
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This presentation introduces Computer Science students to the notion of accessibility: developing software for people with disabilities. This lesson provides a discussion of why accessibility is important (including the legal, societal and ethical benefits) as well as an overview of different types of impairments (visual, auditory, motor, neurological/cognitive) and how developers can make their software accessible to users with those disabilities. This lesson includes videos and links to readings and tutorials for students.
Accessibility Evaluation, Devorah Kletenik
Accessibility Evaluation, Devorah Kletenik
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This activity guides students through the evaluation of a website that they have created to see if it is accessible for users with disabilities. Students will simulate a number of different disabilities (e.g. visual impairments, color blindness, auditory impairments, motor impairments) to see if their website is accessible; they will also use automated W3 and WAVE tools to evaluate their sites. Students will consider the needs of users with disabilities by creating a persona and scenario of a user with disabilities interacting with their site. Finally, students will write up recommendations to change their site and implement the changes.