Overview

Indicative content includes:

• Fundamentals of human-computer interaction and user experience.
• Concepts of human physiology and psychology that influence interface design and information perception.
• HCI issues in information visualisation, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, (x)reality, multimedia, and Word Wide Web-related environments.
• Personas, user-needs and interaction requirements.
• Methods for designing interfaces, including wire-framing, storyboarding and other lo-fi prototyping techniques
• HCI/UX Evaluation methods, including heuristics, hierarchical task analysis, questionnaire-based surveys and talk-aloud methods.
• Practical challenges when doing evaluation
• Optimal and safe design, risks and ramifications of design, accessibility, ethical and professional issues.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply established HCI/UX methods and techniques for designing and prototyping HCI interfaces.

• Apply scientific methods and HCI/UX techniques for the evaluation of HCI interfaces.

• Explain how people perceive and interpret information through computer interfaces.

• Interpret HCI/UX design principles, standards and guidelines.

• Interpret the fundamental principles of HCI and UX.