This page contains syllabus, lecture slides, reading material, and exam for the course "Human Computer Interactions". Course code: MISM 625, MTech, International School of Information Management, Mysore, India.
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Human Computer
Interactions (HCI) is concerned with designing, evaluating and
deploying usable, effective technologies in a range of contexts -
be it home, office, school, cyberspace or other domain.
The objective of this course is to give an introduction to the key
areas, approaches and developments in the field. The main
objective is to get student to think constructively and
analytically about how to design and evaluate interactive
technologies. Basically, the course will introduce them to key
areas, theoretical frameworks, approaches and major developments
in HCI.
The course outline:
Session 1 What is
Interaction Design? (26
September)
Session 2 Understanding and conceptualising
interaction (27 September)
Session 3 Understanding users (28 September)
Session 4 The process of Interaction Design (29 September)
Session 5 Establishing requirements (30 September)
Session 6 Prototyping (1 October)
Session 7 Evaluation (3 October)
Session 8 Observing users (4 October)
Session 9 Emerging Trends (5 October)
Session 10 Student
Group Presentations (7 October)
Session 11 Student Group Presentations (8 October)
Learning outcomes:
After studying
the course you will be able to:
Knowledge and
understanding:
Cognitive
skills:
Key skills:
Practical
and/or professional skills:
The course material will be
available via course management system.
This will be 2
weeks course. Each class session will be of 4 hour 30 min.
duration. Classes will comprise of lecture, hands-on-practice,
discussion etc. Students will be encouraged to participate in
class-discussion and will make at least one presentation during
the course. Morning sessions will mainly consist of lectures and
group exercises. Afternoons will be focused mainly around
assessment activities and personal study. Students are expected to
organise their time to cover preparatory work and assessment
activities.
The text for
the course is Interaction
Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, second
edition, by Sharp, Rogers and Preece. The publisher is John Wiley
& Sons, 2007. The website accompanying the book is at http://id-book.com.
Journals that
deal with Interaction Design issues include:
ACM Transactions on Computer–Human
Interaction, Human–Computer
Interaction
International
Journal of Human–Computer Studies, Behaviour
& Information Technology
The ACM
Digital Library contains papers and articles from a wide range of
conferences and journals that focus on Interaction Design,
including the annual ACM
Conference on Computer–Human Interaction, usually referred
to as CHI 200x.
The candidate will be evaluated on a 10 point
scale and the Grading pattern will be as follows:
| Percentage | 96≤P≤100 | 90≤P≤95 | 80≤P≤89 | 70≤P≤79 | 60≤P≤69 | 55≤P≤59 | 50≤P≤54 | 40≤P≤49 | 31≤P≤39 | 00≤P≤30 |
| G | 10 |
9 |
8 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
0 |