Usability, experience, people, tasks and context; interaction styles; human-centred design; a worked printing-kiosk case.
Eleven lectures, connected ideas
Fourteen teaching weeks: lectures in Weeks 1–6 and 8–12, a midterm, and two weeks of paper presentations.
Perception and attention; working and long-term memory; mental models and system image; human performance.
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Lecture 2 slides (PDF · 123 slides)
Assignment 1: Explain an Interface Through Human Capabilities · Deadline to be announced.
Observation, interviews, task analysis, scenarios and requirements grounded in use.
Organization, navigation, mappings, feedback, interaction flows and design alternatives.
Read the illustrated Lecture 4 chapter →
Lecture 4 slides (PDF · 79 slides)
Assignment 2 week · brief and deadline to be announced.
Prototype fidelity, iterative design, inspection and usability testing.
Slides and illustrated reading forthcoming.
Research questions, measures, study design, validity and interpretation.
Statistics and AI Techniques for HCI →
Supplementary reading · complete mathematical treatment, worked examples and Python code.
Lecture slides and main chapter forthcoming.
Assignment 3 week · brief and deadline to be announced.
Midterm examination
No lectures this week.
Diverse abilities, assistive technologies, accessible interaction and evaluation.
Slides and illustrated reading forthcoming.
Assignment 4 week · brief and deadline to be announced.
Mobile context, sensing, physical interaction and situated use.
Slides and illustrated reading forthcoming.
Information visualization
Visual encodings, tasks, interaction and evaluation of visualizations.
Slides and illustrated reading forthcoming.
Assignment 5 week · brief and deadline to be announced.
Delegation, control, feedback, uncertainty and evaluation of AI interfaces.
Slides and illustrated reading forthcoming.
Collaborative systems, trust, privacy, responsible design and synthesis.
Slides and illustrated reading forthcoming.
Student paper presentations
Discussion of assigned HCI research papers.
Presentation information →Student paper presentations
Discussion of assigned HCI research papers.
Presentation information →