I think this class is a must take if you are a cs major. The content is super interesting and the papers arent too hard as long as you stay on top of the readings. You can tell he cares about what he teaches and honestly the only downside is that you have 8 am lectures.

Be prepared for the difficult assignments coming up. It takes a long time to finish each of them, and there is NO CODING involved in this course. I really want to design and actually build a whole UI from scratch, but it is so disappointing in the end.

Among all the important things we have, he thinks a 8-10 hr weekly assignments is "reasonable". He deliberately wants us to be creepy among other students who go to library and does not bother to ask permission from required authorities for a project. If this is the kind of research that HCI scientists do then I pity the entire field.

He is a fine lecturer. He always sounds like hes giving a ted talk. Class is all group projects. Most weeks they are fairly simple and take little time but every so often there will be a week that takes alot longer. Lectures are extreamly boring and basicly everything he talks about can be easily googled when doing assingments.

LIS-201 is a crazy easy class. Finished the class with over a 100% because he added some extra credit points at the end of the semester. Lectures being at 8am are very annoying but you don't need to go to them at all (you would just lose a couple points). As a teacher/lecturer Jacob is pretty good/interesting but not exceptional.

Professor Spieker is very nice and interesting. LIS 201 is a very easy class, it requires a bunch of writing but not hard to get full credits. The only bad thing is that the lecture starts at 8 a.m., I think that's the main reason for keeping the number of people who take lectures down over time.

Easiest 500 lvl CS class. Attendance changed half-mandatory since he sometimes requires us to enter the code to do attendance reflection. You will know ab your capabilites more when you consider enroll in this course so don't blame about this instructor since its design to be easy. If you feel smart go do 537/545/525 for the require and prove it.

Professor TS is a perfectly fine professor. While grading is generally slow for this class (neither of the papers have been graded as I write this), the class was easy enough and gave me little stress. For those looking to take the class and wondering what it is, it is essentially a discussion on how technology effects society.

Very caring professor. In classroom settings of hundreds of students, professors feel brutal, Professor Thebault-Spieker is caring through and through. Very insightful course material, definitely recommend!

This was the easiest class I have ever taken at UW. Lectures are completely unnecessary, I stopped going after wk 3. You have a couple standard length papers that are graded easily, 3-4 one page papers, 2 presentations, and that's it. You only ever need to skim the readings. Your grade100% depends on your TA but the TAs this semester were great.

Dr. Thebault-Spieker was great! It is clear he cares about students and is passionate and interested in the topics he teaches. The reviews that speak so negatively about him clearly never came to class!! If you came do class, did the projects and papers you will be fine!

This class was great! It was an easy 4 credits and as it does satisfy a Comm B requirement, there is a good amount of writing, but it was always very straightforward and easy and you had more than enough time to complete everything. He was a great professor that was very passionate about the material and made everything very easy to understand.

Easiest CS class in existence. No coding, just projects. Projects do take a few hours so get started early. You don't have to come to class but be sure to check for 1 question feedback quizzes he does during class time. Jacob isn't a bad lecturer, I think it's that HCI is just a really boring topic. I recommend this for a GPA booster.

Take this class if you want a mind numbingly easy 4 credits, but I felt so stupid in this class. No coding. Lectures are just continuous streams of meaningless buzzwords and concepts. It took 3 weeks of our final project for the TA's to realize that Jacob didn't explain what the project even was and none of us knew what we were working towards.

people are torching jacob because this is a 500 level cs class and it is insanely easy. this is a great blow off class that requires ~20hrs of work all year. No exams, attendence is optional, class is basically 2x per week and pretty much always ends early. Yes you will learn nothing but this course is so easy

LIS 201 fulfills the Comm B requirement, and is one of the easiest classes I have ever taken in college. Lecture attendance is not taken, but the one discussion section a week is. There are a few small papers and 2 presentations that are done in discussion section. The TA's are so easy at grading assignments.

Long, boring, drawn out lectures that teach absolutely nothing useful. Group work is pretty easy, but the actual requirements for each project are presented in a very vague way that will leave you scrambling on Sunday night to produce something you missed.

NEVER TAKE IT!!! He knows NOTHING about HCI!!! Extremely confusing project requirements!!! An easy A course though.

Possibly the worse class I have taken at UW-Madison. The content of HCI should be interesting and engaging, yet Professor Thebault-Spieker has some of the most boring, vague, and unhelpful lectures. There is an obvious lack of organizational and communication competency with this class. Do NOT take this class, it is a waste of your time.

Absolutely the worst. Class is extremely unorganized, and professor is arrogant and rude to students. If you're really interested in HCI, I'd recommend you to take it with another prof.

Today is another deadline of a large project where most of the class still doesn't have a single clue on the requirements. This has happened for every assignment so far, it seems. Hes a good guy and made changes to the syllabus, but... It is just not enough to make up for the overall confusion I've been subjected to lol

If you want to learn something at wisc, NEVER TAKE CS 570 unless you want to try get some good GPA (4 cr, approx. 50% historical A rate). Extreme unclear instruction, especially for asignment instruction. Give ambigious answer even for quantitative question. No code to write in class, but learn "models"; feels wasted a lot tuition...

Dr. TS is a great professor. He really cares about his students and really tries his best on making sure everyone succeeds, he will take any personal circumstances to account and will always accommodate you.

Jacob is a nice person and truly cares about the wellbeing of the students. The classes are very well organized despite the change in instruction in the middle of the semester, and he did all he can to be more lenient on grading.

These were some of my absolute favorite lectures. The topics were fascinating to me as a CS major, and the professor did a great job at giving a brief intro to the topics that would leave you thinking. There is a lot of reading and a decent amount of writing every week, but the articles chosen were always fascinating and I didn't mind the read.