2009 Semester 1

IDEA9105
Human
Computer
Interaction

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Full course description

The unit is seminar-based and consists of a number of elements including lectures, tutorials, exercises and a final presentation covering human-computer interaction issues in the design context.

 

Design Lab | Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning | The University of Sydney

Lecturers

Dr Xiangyu Wang (unit coordinator)
office: room 274 (Wilkinson building) | e-mail: x.wang@arch.usyd.edu.au

Dr Martin Tomitsch
office: room 283 (Wilkinson building) | e-mail: martin.tomitsch@arch.usyd.edu.au

Demonstrators

Wei Wang | e-mail: wwan9601@usyd.edu.au

Ralph Lengler | e-mail: ralph.lengler@student.usyd.edu.au

Lecture and tutorial times

Lectures: Thursday 10am-11am, Sentient (Design Lab)
Tutorials: Thursday 11am-1pm, Wilkinson 262 General Access Lab

Timetable

	Lecture	Tutorial	Due
Week 1 05.03.	Introduction to HCI (Dr Wang) slides (Dr Tomitsch) slides	no tutorial
Week 2 12.03.	Understanding Users (Dr Tomitsch) slides	Examples for bad everyday design; Hand out assignment 1 slides
Week 3 19.03.	Social Models (Dr Wang) slides	Social websites/application discussion; Tutorial activity 1 slides
Week 4 26.03.	New Computing Paradigms (Dr Tomitsch)slides	Hand out assignment 2 slides Brainstorming about problem domains slides	Assignment 1
Week 5 02.04.	User-centred Design Process (Dr Tomitsch) slides	IDEO video; Example: design of alarm clocks; Tutorial activity 2
Week 6 09.04.	Requirement Analysis (Dr Tomitsch) slides	Tutorialslides Hand out assignment 3slides	Assignment 2
VCC Common Week/non-teaching Easter period
Week 7 23.04.	Design Principles (Dr Tomitsch)	Guest Lecture; Discuss web design guidelines and examples slides
Week 8 30.04.	Interface Design (Dr Wang) slides	Tutorial activity 3: paper discussionslides Hand out assignment 4slides	Assignment 3
Week 9 07.05.	Prototyping Techniques (Dr Tomitsch) slides	Prototyping video; Demo on interactive prototypes Flash prototype file to be used in class Tutorial: Protoyping using Flash Prototyping in Powerpoint
Week 10 14.05.	Evaluation (Dr Wang) slides	Paper presentation. Given a list of usability, identify and discuss usability issues and measuring methods for each proposed attribute of the usabilities.
Week 11 21.05.	Evaluation analysis (Dr Wang) slides	Heuristic Evaluation Procedure Ten heuristics Detailed checklist Another checklist for mobile device ANOVA tutorial	Assignment 4
Week 12 28.05.	Project development
Week 13 04.06.	Presentations		Assignment 5