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March 05, 2003
*grin*
Smiling today. I have good reason to. But enough about that. :)
In other news... went to the doctor in the morning... for my cough... nothing definitive, just taking Amoxicillin (an antibiotic) for a few days. We'll see what happens. It will probably just run it's course. It apparently hasn't caused any major problems in my lungs or what-not... Here's hoping it never does.
Also stopped in to campus... they've finally put computers in the lab across from my office. I'll be teaching in it on Tuesdays and Thursdays this coming quarter at 8am in the morning (ugh). Hopefully it will all be nicely working by then.
I'm also teaching two sections of one of my favorite courses: Human Factors. it's kind of hard to explain the course except to describe it as the psychology of people using things, particularly computers, but as it turns out... the computer specific stuff tends to be addressed much more in the follow up course: Interface Design. Human Factors is a broad course intended to get students thinking about how psychology and the design of things takes on a big roll in whether a person is successful at using a device or object. One might almost refer to it as "Applied Common Sense", but it's something that people tend to throw out the window when they design something. Throughout the HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) series of courses we talk about the Product (Software Engineering?) Design Lifecycle. This particular course addresses the first part when the design itself is being specified and thought out. It's background information needed for becoming good designers. And it's a lot of fun to teach.
Posted by Andrew at March 5, 2003 03:32 PM