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CS-C3120 - Human-Computer Interaction, 10.09.2019-09.12.2019

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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).

    We warmly welcome you to learn human-computer interaction!

    Antti Salovaara, lecturer
    Helen Marton and Miska Nurmi, teaching assistants


    Lecture schedule

    Date      Theme Lecture Assignment of the same week
    Sept 10 Human-centredness in system design L1: Human-centred computing + Course practicalities A1: HCI activity timing
    Sept 17 Human behaviour 1 L2: Task analysis A2: Hierarchical task analysis of a phone task and a comparison to a user's mental model
    Sept 24 Interface design 1 L3: User interface (UI) prototyping (guest lecturer Aqdas Malik, Aalto SCI Strategic usability research group) A3: Analysis of an UI and sketching its improved version
    Oct 1 Interface design 2 L4: Computational design (guest lecturer Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto ELEC User Interfaces group). Note: PDF size 97 MB. A4: Solving a design problem with a computational method
    Oct 8 Empirical user studies 1 L5: Empirical research basics and A4 feedback and correct solutions A5: Controlled experiment with one participant. This assignment will produce data that we will analyse together in Lecture 6.
    Oct 15 Empirical user studies 2 L6: Experimental research and SPSS data+script for re-running the analysis in the lecture A6: Conducting an interview-based requirements engineering study. This assignment will produce the data for  Assignment A7.
    Oct 22 Exam week - No lecture Exam week - No exercise
    Oct 29 Empirical user studies 3 L7: Interpretive research A7: Finding patterns from interview-based data
    Nov 5 Human behaviour 2 L8: User modeling (guest lecturer Jussi Jokinen, Aalto ELEC User Interfaces group) and Feedback for Assignment 7. A8: Behaviour modelling and prediction from interaction logs
    Nov 12 Human behaviour 3 L9: Multimodal interaction and Feedback for Assignment 8. A9: Multimodal analysis of an app for bicycle messengers
    Nov 19 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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