Human-Computer Interaction

Total number of hours per semester

Semester

VIII

Lectures

60

Practices

60 (C)

Contents / Structure of the subject:

• ACM SIGCHI interdisciplinary studies

• Human (I/O channels; memory; reasoning and problem solving; individual and group psychology; direct and indirect users)

• Computer (ergonomics and input/output devices)

• Interaction (models and frameworks; syntax and styles; forms and element of a dialogue; context)

• Usability (principles and practice; engineering)

• Interface (interaction) design (interdisciplinary development team; user-centered and user-participied approach; life-cycle and iterative development based on prototyping; techniques for HCI requirements gathering and engineering; methods of user and/or interface modeling)

• Tools for development, implementation and support of interfaces – GUI libraries, toolbox, builders; UIMS and dialogue independent; architecture of interactive systems)

• Interface evaluation (goals and styles; choosing an evaluation method; evaluation of design and implementation)

• Help and documentation (requirements and approaches to user support; adaptive help system and its design; writing technical documentation)

• User interface of high interactive systems (multimedia – WWW, CSCW, systems of virtual and augmentative reality; handwriting and gesture recognition; ubiquitous computing; interfaces for users with special needs)

• Other problems in design and implementation of user interfaces of contemporary computing systems

Preexam duties:

• Carried out computing practices.

Mode of studies and evaluation:

• Lectures; Computing (C) practices; Consultations.

• The exam is oral;

• The exam grade comprises the result on computing practices and oral exam.

Literature:

1. A. Dix, J. Finlay, G. Abowd, R. Beale, Human-Computer Interaction, Prentice Hall

2. M. van Harmelen (Ed.), Object Modeling and User Interface Design, Addison-Wesley

3. M. B. Rosson, J.M. Carroll, Usability Engineering – Scenario-Based Development of HCI, Morgan Kaufmann