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Goal:
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- To give the students understanding of the communication process between user and computer, with focus on graphic user interface.
- to give to students knowledge to apply theories, methods and techniques for evaluation and design of
computer user interaction
- to give the students understanding of different problem areas in connection with integration
of various information channels.
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Placement:
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This 1 module PE (project unit) course is placed during semester 2 of the Aalborg University
open Master of IT education.
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Content:
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- Overall issues on psychlogical/cognitive, perceptual and communication aspects of HCI.
- Principles and methods for evaluation and design of graphical user interfaces.
- Advanced multimodal user interfaces
- Integration and interpretation of information from different modalities
- Web usability design
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Examination:
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- The course supports the project work and is evaluated together
with the project work.
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Personnel:
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References:
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'Delivered' material
- Lecture notes and exercises on WWW at this site http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/education/sem2_mit_hci_2001/index.html).
- Nielsen J, 200, 1999, "Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity". New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 156205810X . (432 pp.). 36 US$ (530 DKK).
(Amazon)
- Faulkner Xristine, 2000, "Usability Engineering". MacMillan Press, New York (244 pp.). (EXTRACTS: pp. 21-28 'Usability - know the user', pp. 157-160 'Cooperative Evaluation', pp. 188-192 'Usability heuristics'.)
(http://www.palgrave.com/science/computing/faulkner/)
- Shneiderman, 1998, "Designing the User Interface". Addison-Wesley Longman Inc., Reading Massachusetts. (638 pp).
- Larsen L., B., 2000, "Introduction to Usability Engineering". http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/education/reports/usability_intro.pdf
- Nielsen J, 1995?, "How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation". http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_evaluation.html
(from http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/)
- Xerox, 1995, 'X Heuristic Evalualtion - A System Checklist'. Usability Analysis & Design, Xerox Corporation. PDF-version, http://www.stc.org/pics/usability/resources/toolkit/he_cklst.doc
Further reading
- "Usability Inspection Methods" (eds. Nielsen J, Mack R., L.), 1994. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (413 pp.)
- Rubin J., 1994 " Handbook of Usability Testing : How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (Wiley Technical Communication Library).
36 us$. Paperback - 330 pages (April 1994) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471594032
- Nielsen J, 1994, "Usability Engineering
($30.99). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. (Paperback - 362 pages)
- "useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website, usable information technology". http://www.useit.com/
- 'Recommended Other Websites'. http://www.useit.com/hotlist/
- Ask Tog. 'The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web.' http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html.
- Usability Special Interest Group. http://www.stc.org/pics/usability/resources/
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