CS 591 Human Computer Interaction

 

 

Instructor:

Dr. Pradipta Biswas

Senior Researcher, Cambridge University, UK

Vice Chairman at FG on Smart TV, ITU-T, Switzerland

Email: pb400 AT cam.ac.uk

 

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Credits: 1L-0T-0P-1C

 

Prerequisite:

Basic knowledge of computer science, psychology, mathematics, and statistics.

 

Aim of the course:

·        Introducing importance and applications of HCI

·        Discussing basics of human psychology and their implications in interface design

·        Introducing to real life HCI projects

·        Teaching to conduct user trials and reporting results

·        Making aware of state of the art HCI research

·        Evaluating user interfaces

·        Writing international standards relevant to HCI

 

What you get:

·        Basic guidelines to design good interface

·        Idea of user modelling and interface personalization

·        A usability evaluation tool to develop inclusive interfaces

·        Conducting usability evaluation and reporting results

·        Knowledge about novel interaction technologies

·        Basic know-how about writing international standards

 

What we did not cover but worth mentioning:

·        Multilingual interfaces

·        Natural language processing

·        Ethnography study

·        Group dynamics

·        Participatory design

 

 

Course Structure

Students’ Projects

Grades

 

Course Materials:

 

Text book

Shneiderman B. "Designing The User Interface - Strategies For Effective Human-Computer Interaction." Pearson Education

 

Johnson P. "Human Computer Interaction: psychology, task analysis and software engineering." McGraw Hill Book Company, 1992.

 

Buxton B., Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, Morgan Kaufmann

 

Others:

Newell A. "Unified Theories of Cognition." Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 1990

 

Card S., Moran T. and Newell A. "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction." Hillsdale, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983

 

Anderson J. R. and Lebiere C. "The Atomic Components of Thought."  Hillsdale, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

 

Field A. "Discovering Statistics Using SPSS." SAGE Publications Ltd., 2009.

 

Hampson P. J. and Moris P. E. "Understanding Cognition." Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1996.

 

John B. E. and Kieras D. "The GOMS Family of User Interface Analysis Techniques: Comparison And Contrast." ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction 3 (1996): 320-351.

 

Johnson-Laird P.A. "The Computer and The Mind." Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press.

 

Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction Ed. Helander M. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd.

 

In addition to this I shall use a few of my own papers available at

http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Pyj57Y4AAAAJ&hl=en