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CSM 357

Human Computer Interaction

R O S E - M A RY O W U S U A A M E N S A H G Y E N I N G

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Course Overview

At the end of this course, students will be able to understand the :


◦ foundations of Human Computer Interaction

◦ importance of designing interactive and usable products

◦ interaction design: key theories, importance of iteration, evaluation and prototyping in interaction design

◦ principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces.

◦ Web/mobile HCI principles.

◦ guidelines for user interface design

◦ Designing for children

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Expectations

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

◦ use suitable techniques to gather data to develop simple interactive products

◦ • Design, implement and evaluate effective and usable graphical computer interfaces.

◦ • Describe and apply core theories, models and methodologies from the field of HCI.

◦ • Describe and discuss current research in the field of HCI

◦ communicate effectively to peers and specialists about requirements, design, and


evaluation activities relating to interactive products
Course Outline
Lecture 1: Introduction to HCI
Human, computer and the interaction, good and poor design choices, history of HCI, Technologies in
HCI, Human factors in HCI

Lecture 2: Design Process: Understanding the users Human Cognition


Input-output channels, role and limitations of the three primary senses in HCI, perceiving size and
depth, colour, hearing, HCI, Speech and Non-speech sounds, touch, movement, human factors in HCI

Lecture 3: Interaction models, Norman’s model of interaction, Abowd and Beale’s Interaction
framework, ACM SIGCHI Curriculum Development Group’s framework for HCI, Ergonomics,
Interface Styles

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Course Outline
Lecture 4:Usability Methods, Interaction Design basics, Design process
Multimodal Interaction
◦ Usability objectives, Interaction Design process, types of prototyping, goals of evaluation

Lecture 5: Evaluation Techniques

Lecture 6: Cognitive models/ Designing mobile and web interfaces, designing for children

Lecture 7: Current research in HCI (students would present and critique short HCI research papers
throughout the course)
Lecture 8: Current research in HCI (students would present and critique short HCI research papers
throughout the course)
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Recommended materials
Textbooks 1. Human-Computer Interaction, Third Edition by Alan Dix et
al, Prentice Hall (2004).

2. Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of


Human-Computer Interaction by Rosson, M. and Carroll, J.

3. Usability Engineering by Nielsen, J.

4. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction,


Fourth Edition by Preece, Sharp & Rogers (2015).

5. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth


Edition by Cooper, Reimann, Cronin, & Noessel (2014).

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