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MySpace, Facebook, and Orkut provide persistent services for exchanging personal information, ubiquitous computing environments allow objects to adapt to our everyday experiences, and new technologies enable people to collaborate on projects when they are thousands of miles apart. The design of such systems, however, is not simply a technical question. In order to successfully create these systems, an understanding of how people work, play, and communicate with one another in a wide variety of situations is necessary. This course illustrates the practice of understanding human interactions that take place both with and through technology. Also, it explores the design, creation, and evaluation of technologies to support such interactions. Course topics include design processes, prototype construction, and evaluation techniques. Specialized topics cover technologies for special populations, social software and collaborative systems, and entertainment technologies. No programming experience is necessary.