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

Course home page

• Course home page
  

  Course home page

  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).

  
  

  Reading material for the exam (needs a login to open the link)

  
  

  Lecture schedule

  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

  
  
  

  • Announcements Forum
  • General discussion Forum

    Use this forum for asking general questions about the course.