COURSES

Goals

Objectives: - Knowing the principles for achieving good fit among the user, tasks and technology. - Understanding interactive system architectures that support various sensory perceptors. - Getting an overview of sensor applications in human computer interaction. - Understanding the implications of wireless, wearable and other emerging technologies. - Getting experience in user interface prototyping. - Getting experience in usability testing comparing possible solutions. Competences: - For a given sensor application: understanding its role in human computer interaction with respect to physical restrictions and stated goals. - Implementing prototypes for quick evaluation of the designed sensor application using established approaches of usability testing. - Knowledge of the established user interface design heuristics. - Experience in preparing evaluation plan considering user needs and possible restrictions. - Performing evaluation of the designed sensor application. - Ability for comparing the developed solution with the state-of-the-art and assessing the achieved level of innovation.

Curriculum

- Human computer interaction: methodology, survey of existing technologies and recent advances in the field. - Human computer interaction systems architectures. - Main areas of sensor based human computer interaction: conventional (mouse, keyboard, joysticks), motion tracking, haptic sensors, pressure sensors, taste/smell sensors. - User interface prototyping. - Usability testing techniques. - Design heuristics and heuristic evaluation. - Advanced sensor based human computer interaction applications.