Human-computer interaction [ LSINF1311 ]

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Programming (LSINF1101 or equivalent), algorithmics (LSINF1103 or equivalent) and data strucutres (LSINF1121 ore equivalent)

1. Introduction

• Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction and User Centered Design
• Evolution of UI over time: from character to graphic, from real to virtual, from static to dynamic, from batch to highly interactive

2. UI software technology

• Interaction devices and displays with users
• Concret and abstract interactive objects
• Interaction techniques (e.g., drag and drop), interaction styles (e.g., command language, direct manipulation)
• Interaction media (e.g., trackball)
• UI development environments (programming languages, toolkits, libraries, by demonstration, automated generation, computer-aided design)
• Standard, norms and usability style guides (e.g., IBM CUA, ISO 9241)

3. External disciplines to UI

• Input from cognitive psychology, prescriptive models
• Theory of attention and perception
• Usability engineering

4. UI development methods

• Development life cycles and models (e.g., V, Spiral, ProdUser, Nabla)
• Existing UI development methods (e.g., Muse, Trident, Diane+, SOMA)
• Preliminary design (including task modeling)
• Detailed design (including user modeling)
• UI prototyping (fast, iterative)
• UI evaluation methods: with vs without users

Students completing successfully this course will be able to

• Clarify the issues of human-computer interaction in order to design a user interface (UI) of an interactive application that is tailored to the user's task
  
• Master usual models to build a UI in order to use them wisely when designing an interactive application

Students will have developed skills and operational methodology. In particular, they have developed their ability to

• use tools and technologies appropriate to the development of the interface of an interactive application

• R.M. Baecker, W.A.S. Buxton, Readings in Human-Computer Interaction, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, 1987.
• D. Olsen, Developing User Interfaces, Morgan Kaufman, San Francisco, 1998.
• B. Shneiderman, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1997.
• J. Vanderdonckt, A. Puerta, Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces II, Kluwer Academics, Dordrecht, 1999.