CS250W. Human-Computer Interaction

Prerequisites: introduction to computer science (any implementation of CS103 or CS112), discrete structures (CS106 or CS115)

Syllabus:

• Foundations of human-computer interaction: Motivation; contexts for HCI; human-centered development and evaluation; human performance models; human performance models; accommodating human diversity; principles of good design and good designers; engineering tradeoffs; introduction to usability testing
• Human-centered software evaluation: Setting goals for evaluation; evaluation without users; evaluation with users
• Human-centered software development: Approaches, characteristics, and overview of process; functionality and usability; specifying interaction and presentation; prototyping techniques and tools
• Graphical user-interface design: Choosing interaction styles and interaction techniques; HCI aspects of common widgets; HCI aspects of screen design; handling human failure; beyond simple screen design; multi-modal interaction; 3D interaction and virtual reality
• Graphical user-interface programming: Dialogue independence and levels of analysis; widget classes; event management and user interaction; geometry management; GUI builders and UI programming environments; cross-platform design
• HCI aspects of multimedia systems: Categorization and architectures of information; information retrieval and human performance; HCI design of multimedia information systems; speech recognition and natural language processing; information appliances and mobile computing
• HCI aspects of collaboration and communication: Groupware to support specialized tasks; asynchronous group communication; synchronous group communication; online communities; software characters and intelligent agents

Units covered:

PF5	Event-driven programming	2	core hours (of 4)
HC1	Foundations of human-computer interaction	6	core hours
HC2	Building a simple graphical user interface	2	core hours
HC3	Human-centered software evaluation	5	hours
HC4	Human-centered software development	5	hours
HC5	Graphical user-interface design	6	hours
HC6	Graphical user-interface programming	3	hours
HC7	HCI aspects of multimedia systems	5	hours
HC8	HCI aspects of collaboration and communication	3	hours
PL6	Object-oriented programming	2	core hours (of 10)
	Elective topics	1	hour

Notes:
[to be supplied]

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