Short Description
This unit will give students an advanced level of understanding of current theoretical, methodological, and practical research issues and trends in human computer interaction. Specifically, the unit will communicate to students the importance of usability, how it can be achieved and measured, give them the relevant knowledge and skills related to usability design and evaluation, and provide them some experience of researching advanced HCI topics, summarising the current state of the art, undertaking a relevant study, and presenting the results.
You’ll learn to:
- Understand human computer interaction theory, be aware of interaction design issues, and be able to carry out different types of evaluation
- Challenge and recognize advances in the state of the art in human-computer interaction research
- Develop research programmes to overcome problems in usability research, development, and evaluation
- Summarise current theoretical, methodological, and practical research issues and trends in human-computer interaction
- Discuss the key issues in usability, usability design, and evaluation
- Critically evaluate the key issues in interaction design
Topics covered in this unit may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- What is usability?
- What aspects of humans need to be considered in user centred design?
- What is effective, useful and engaging interaction design?
- Participatory design and the role of the end user.
- Different approaches to evaluation - analytical, discount, formal, etc.