Human-Computer Interaction

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

Interdisciplinary course, integrating knowledge from both social sciences and technology to produce successful technical systems. Application of modern results from social sciences. Other fields concerned are design, ergonomy, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, aesthetics, and typography, complemented by links to software engineering.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Application life cycle, the role and purposes of evaluation, user load

2. Research of users - data collection methods, controlled experiments

3. Interpretive evaluation, ethnography, predictive evaluation

4. Software construction as design. The social role of the designer

5. Labor organization and social impacts of information technology

6. Mental models, conceptual models, their dynamics. Software evolution

7. The problem of „the right“ conceptual model. Lessons form linguistics

8. Classification systems, domain analysis and other knowledge sources

9. Visual elements of user interface implementing conceptual model

10. User interface and languages design from conceptual model. User interface standards

11. User support: online help, manuals. Language issues

12. Typography: connotations, user expectations, traditions

13. Typography: implementing conceptual models

14. Spare

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Students' needs and expectations, illustration of basic terms

2. Lab: ergonomy experiments

3. Evaluation of the experiments. User survey - introduction

4. Lab: experience with an client-server application and its protocol

5. User survey - design of methods

6. Lab: signs, metaphors, icons

7. User survey - analysis of results

8. Lab: signs, metaphors, icons - evaluation

9. Cognitive walkthrough

10. Lab: colors

11. Interface design from conceptual model

12. Lab: colors

13. Typography

14. Spare

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Preece, J.: Computer Human Interaction. Addison-Wesley, 1994

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: