This HCI course is taught using a combination of personal study and reading, classroom interaction, group work and conventional lectures.
Ongoing approaches for the course are the design exercise documented in the blogs, the course reading and the associated lectures. These are detailed in the table below.
Blogs will be assessed as a paired contribution. Deadline: end of semester. Blog marks count for the continuous assessment: there is an exam worth 30%.
Revision lecture slides [ppt] [pdf]
Aggregated feed here: see what others are up to, comment yourself!
| Week | Design activity | Blogging activity | Course Reading
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Lecture |
| 1 | Set up project blogs. Ensure your full names are in the blog sidebar. Make sure you all have logins to the blog. Start blogging | |||
| 2 | Get into pairs, identify domain/product/concept, brainstorm. | Send blog details to me | IBM's site on UCD - read most if not all of it |
What is user-centered design? How does it different from conventional software engineering? Why do it? Approaches to creativity and design; brainstorming |
| 3 | Meet demonstrators, discuss project ideas | |||
| 4 | Do detailed problem definition for your idea: define what it is you are going to solve. Outline basic ideas. |
Check you're documenting it in sufficient detail. |
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| 5 | Find potential users, ask what they want. Refine basic ideas. Start designing. | Discuss what you learned from asking a few people and whether and how it altered your initial ideas. Capture some of your design. | ||
| 6 | Produce first prototype. | Capture details of prototype in blog - images, screenshots, video, animation -whatever is needed... | Design | |
| 7 | Evaluate it. | Discuss how you evaluated it, how you showed it to users, and what you learned. |
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more on Design... Good blogs this week |
| 8 | Ethics | Discussion on ethics | Ethics [ppt] [pdf] | |
Additional reading, to help you gain a wider appreciation of HCI issues in practice (not covered in the course, not expressely covered in the exam, but gives you context and awareness of the issues
HCI case studies - see the section from the HCI textbook online
CAERUS case study - context-aware systems
