- University: University of Kurdistan - Hawler
- Department: Computer Engineering Dept.
- My Status: Assistant Lecturer
- Level: BSc
- Year: 2019
Course Description
The aim of this module is to teach students the concepts of how humans interact with computers. The goal is to equip students with enough information to:
- Make them understand the ways people interact with computers.
- Describe a variety of input and output devices, modes (including multimodal) and Human-Computer interaction styles.
- Describe the needs of different populations of users of software and interfaces.
- Appreciate the importance of interface design principles and standards, and proper use of HCI guidelines.
Course Objectives
On successful completion of the module students should be able to demonstrate:
- Knowledge and Understand of how humans interact with Computers and Usability Issues.
- Knowledge and understanding on how to select suitable hardware and style of interaction for a given situation
- Ability to use appropriate techniques in the analysis and design of user interfaces, and evaluate their usability
- Ability to specify and design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for conventional and/or web-based applications
- Understand important design issues like quality of services, balancing function and fashion, user documentation and online help, and information search.
- Understand societal and individual impact of user interfaces.
Course Content
- Introduction: Usability of Interactive Systems, Guidelines, Principles, and Theories.
- Introduction: Human Aspects of HCI, Computer Aspects of HCI.
- Development Processes: Managing Design Process: Organizational Design to Support Usability, the Four Pillars of Design, Development Methodologies….
- Development Processes: Evaluating Interface Designs: Expert Reviews, Usability Testing, Survey Instruments, Acceptance Tests…….
- Interaction Styles: Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments: Examples and Discussion of Direct Manipulation, 3D interfaces, Teleoperation, Virtual and Augmented Reality.
- Interaction Styles: Menu Selection, Form Fill-in, and Dialog Boxes: Task-Related Menu Organization, Single Menus, Combinations of Multiple Menus, Content Organization, Fast Movement through Menus……
- Interaction Styles: Command and Natural Languages and Interaction Devices. Command-Organization Functionality, Strategies, and Structure. Keyboard and Keypads, Pointing Devices, Display small and large.
- Collaboration and Social Media Participation: Goals of Collaboration and Participation, Asynchronous and Synchronous Distributed Interfaces, Face to Face interfaces
- Design Issues: Quality of Service: Models of Response-Time impacts, Expectations and Attitudes, User Productivity, Variability of Response Time.
- Design Issues: Balancing Function and Fashion: Error Messages, Display Design, Web Page Design, Window Design.
- Design Issues: User Documentation and Online Help: Online Versus Paper Documentation, Reading from Paper Versus From Displays, Shaping the Content of the Documentation, Accessing the Documentation, Online Tutorials and Animated Demonstrations……
- Design Issues: Information Search and Visualization: Searching in Textual Documents, and Database Querying, Multimedia Document Searches, Advanced Filtering and Search Interfaces, Data Type by Task Taxonomy, Challenges for Information Visualization.
- Societal and Individual Impact of User Interfaces: Future Interfaces, Ten Plagues of the Information Age, Continuing Controversies.
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