BCT3108 Human Computer Interaction

Humans and machines concern human Computer Interaction (HCI) with the joint performance of tasks. It stresses the importance of good interfaces and the relationship of interface design to effective human interaction with computers. Specifically, we concentrate on interactive systems. This course uses an integrative and cross-disciplinary approach to bring together a broad variety of topics together in relation to the problem of developing quality user interaction designs to introduce the field of HCI. This course provides the concepts of HCI and user interfaces, focusing on user interface design, evaluation, and technologies.

Course Objectives

• To impart theoretical knowledge of and practical experience in the fundamental aspects of designing and implementing user interfaces. 
• To provide skills of analyzing interaction problems from a technical, cognitive, and functional perspective. 
• To develop an awareness of the range of general human-computer interaction issues that must be considered when designing information systems
• To provide knowledge about multimodal displays for conveying and presenting information

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should have:

• An understanding of the theories and principles of user interface design
• An appreciation of the importance of the client and the user
• An understanding of how to do usability testing
• An understanding of how to analyze usability tests
• Understanding of the basics of human and computational abilities and limitations
• Understanding of the basic theories, tools and techniques in HCI
• Understanding the fundamental aspects of designing and evaluating interfaces
• Skills of   a variety of simple methods for evaluating the quality of a user interface
• Ability apply appropriate HCI techniques to design systems that are usable by people.