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Human-Computer Interaction (HMI604)FDA032, 2003VT
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Course plan
Lectures
About 32 h, lectures and seminars.
Recommended for
Graduate students.
The course was last given
Spring 2000.
Goals
This course aims at giving insight and experience in a variety of key issues in
HCI. It is not intended to give full coverage of all the areas related to the
field. After the course, students will be able to approach software development
in general, and interaction design in particular, from an end user
point-of-view.
The course also provides an opportunity to explore and discuss HCI issues
beyond the traditional basic curriculum, e.g., philosophical and ideological
foundations, HCI and software engineering etc. Students may influence the
seminar topics to some extent, based on e.g., ongoing research projects.
Prerequisites
None
Organization
The course is organized around weekly 3-hour seminars, covering a sequence of
about 10 topics. Presentations will be made primarily by students, and
occasionally by invited lecturers. Students will select a topic from a list
(see below), and for each topic there will be two or three mandatory papers. In
order to add context and depth, the presenter will follow up a few references.
Students that are not presenting will have prepared three or more non-trivial
questions or comments. In the general case, the last part of a seminar will
introduce the next week's topic and the associated readings. There will also be
minor assignments between the seminars.
Students may write an optional term paper or project report after agreement
with the lecturer.
Contents
We will approach the field of HCI from a process perspective, to give a basic
understanding of how usable design can be achieved. This gives rise to a number
of issues which will then be covered during the rest of the seminars.
List of topics (preliminary):
- HCI - an overview
- User and task analysis
- Interaction design
- Usability evaluation
- Human cognition and information processing
- Perspectives on and extensions to usability
- Engineering vs. design
- Interaction techniques
- Visualization
- Social behavior and computers
Literature
Selected Papers and on-line readings.
Lecturers
Pär Carlshamre, plus invited lecturers.
Examiner
Pär Carlshamre
Examination
Although grades other than pass and fail are not given, it is desirable to give
nuanced feedback. You will therefore receive an "informal" grade according to
the following criteria:
Class Participation 40 % Seminar Presentation(s) 40 %, Mini-assignments 20%
Credit
3 credits plus 2 for optional term paper
Comments
Preliminary schedule: Mondays 13-16, starting March 24 (w.13)
Page responsible: Director of Graduate Studies
