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HCI Course Outline and Objectives

The HCI course focuses on the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems, emphasizing practical usability engineering problems. Students will engage in hands-on activities, including Heuristic Evaluation and Thinking Aloud Tests, culminating in a report on their findings. The course covers a range of topics from user-centered design to usability testing methods and visual design principles.

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HCI Course Outline and Objectives

The HCI course focuses on the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems, emphasizing practical usability engineering problems. Students will engage in hands-on activities, including Heuristic Evaluation and Thinking Aloud Tests, culminating in a report on their findings. The course covers a range of topics from user-centered design to usability testing methods and visual design principles.

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HCI Course Outline

Recommended Book(s)

Cooper, Reimann, And Cronin; About Face 3: The Essentials Of Interaction Design; Wiley,
2007, ISBN 0470084111

Steve Krug; Don’t Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability; 2nd
Edition, New Riders, 2005. ISBN 0321344758

Reference Book(s)

Stone, Jarrett, Woodruffe, And Minocha; User Interface Design And Evaluation; Morgan
Kaufmann, March 2005. ISBN 0120884364

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and


implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major
phenomena surrounding them [ ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction]. The
focus of the current course is to learn diversified domain knowledge of HCI and to work on the
practical usability engineering problems. The students will perform Heuristic Evaluation and
Thinking Aloud Test on a real website to get hands on experience. At the end, students need to
write a brief report about their practical work.

COURSE CONTENTS

Sr: Topic Name Content Details


1 Human Computer  What is HCI?
Interaction  Introduction and background

2 The Psychology of  The Psychopathology of Everyday Things


Usable Things  The Psychology of Everyday Things
 The Psychopathology of Computers
 Interface Hall of Shame
 User Centered Design
3 Process of User-  Defining Usability
Centered Designs/
Usability Engineering  Usability Evaluation

 The Usability Engineering Lifecycle

 Planning Usability Activities

4 Metrics for Evaluation/  Classifying Users


Know the User
 Research the Frames of Reference

 Research the End User

5 Usability  Competitive Analysis


Benchmarking
 Set Usability Targets

 Return on Investment

6 Goal-Oriented  Creating Personas


Interaction Design
 Defining Goals for each Persona

 Defining Scenarios for each Persona

 Moving to a Design Solution

7 Prototyping  Verbal Prototype

 Low-Fidelity Paper Prototypes

 High-Fidelity Paper Prototypes

 Interactive Sketches

 Working Prototypes

 Implementation

8 Usability Inspection  Heuristic Evaluation


Methods
 Severity Ratings

 Guideline Checking

 Cognitive Walkthrough

 Guideline Scoring

 Action Analysis

Usability Testing  Preparing for Usability Testing


9 Methods
 Six Stages of Conducting a Test

 Thinking Aloud

 Co-Discovery

 Formal Experiments

 A/B Testing

 Query Techniques

 Usage Studies

10 Usability in Practice  Comparison of Evaluation Techniques

 Discount Usability Engineering

 Differences in Evaluation Practices

 Usability Reports

 Usability Consulting

11 Visual Design and  Typography


Typography
 Factors Influencing the Legibility of Text

12 Icon Design  Visual Association


 Standard Parts of an Icon

 Icon Design Principles

 Cultural and International Issues

 Do Not Always Use Icons

 Iconic Language

 The Icon Design Lifecycle

 Designing Icons for Sun’s Public Web Site

13 A Brief History of HCI  Early Interfaces

 WIMP Interfaces

Prepared By: Approved By:


Course Instructor HoD
AMINA SABA AIHAB KHAN
_____________ _______________

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