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As some of you may know (I have been doing a terrible job of keeping this updated, so not sure what I've posted about), I have been the teaching assistant (TA) for HCI 521: Cognitive Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State this semester. Just this past Tuesday I had my first opportunity to lead the class because the professor was guest lecturing for another class (which meets at the same time). Since it's a distance education course, the entire class session was recorded. I've uploaded an ~8 minute clip (class was an hour and 13 minutes) of me leading a class discussion on some content I had added the night before to the professor's slides to give the class more of my own personal touch. The topic of the class for the day was 'affective computing' also known as 'emotional design'.



I found out Saturday that I'd be teaching on Tuesday and was given the slides and video from his lecture last year. However, I have a different presentation then the normal professor, so I modified things as I felt appropriate to get the major concepts across while catering to my more casual presentation style, which was rough at first, but I felt that at the point this clip is at that I was able to create enough rapport with the class and encourage participation enough that this worked out decently well.

I have many more updates for a later date when I have time, but for now, I hope you enjoyed the clip from my lecture. If you have an interest in the full thing then let me know.

*UPDATE* Full video of the lecture: