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CS-C3120 - Human-Computer Interaction, 11.09.2018-10.12.2018

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    As computational systems have moved to become pervasive parts of our lives, it becomes even more important to consider how they can be best designed to be useful and useable by people (or "users"). But what is a "user", how do we understand what they want, and how can we design user interfaces that are effective and efficient for them?

    This course covers the foundations of Human-Computer Interaction - the study of how computer systems can be designed to support the needs of the people who we intend to use them.

    Course book, teaching format, workload, grading: See the syllabus

    Prerequisites: This course is designed for 3rd year students. Students are expected to be aware as the most typical software engineering process models (e.g., agile and iterative development), and have ability to do small programming tasks related to one lecture and its weekly exercise (using Python).


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    Date      Theme Lecture Assignment of the same week
    Sept 11 Human-centredness in system design L1: Human-centredness + Course practicalities A1: HCI timing planning
    Sept 18 Human behaviour 1 L2: Task analysis A2: Hierarchical task analysis of a phone task and a comparison to a user's mental model
    Sept 25 Interface design 1 L3: Design heuristics and user interface (UI) prototyping A3: Analysis of an UI and sketching its improved version
    Oct 2 Interface design 2 L4: Computational design methods (guest lecturer Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto ELEC User Interfaces group) A4: Solving a design problem with a computational method
    Oct 9 Empirical user studies 1 L5: General criteria of high-quality studies on users + ethics in empirical research A5: Controlled experiment with one participant. This assignment will produce data that we will analyse together in Lecture 6.
    Oct 16 Empirical user studies 2 L6: Experimental (i.e., lab) user studies and their quantitive analysis A6: Conducting an interview-based requirements engineering study. This assignment will produce the data for  Assignment A7.
    Oct 23 Exam week - No lecture Exam week - No exercise
    Oct 30 Empirical user studies 3 L7: Qualitative user research (participant observation and interviewing) A7: Finding patterns from interview-based data
    Nov 6 Human behaviour 2 L8: User behaviour prediction (guest lecturer Jussi Jokinen, Aalto ELEC User Interfaces group) A8: Behaviour modelling and prediction from interaction logs
    Nov 13 Human behaviour 3 L9: Multimodal interaction A9: Multimodal analysis of an app for bicycle messengers
    Nov 20 Interface design 3 L10: Mobile computing and context-aware computing A10: Prototyping two UIs for a music player app and planning a test for choosing between them


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