HCI foundation and history; Usability life cycle and methods; Design rules and guidelines;Empirical research methods; Models in HCI - GOMS, Fitts law and Hick-Hymans law; Taskanalysis; Dialogue design; Cognitive architecture and HCI ; Graphic User Interfaces &aesthetics; Usability Testing; UML,OOP,OOM; Design Case Studies.

NPTEL Syllabus

Human-Computer Interaction - Web course

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE DETAILS

Module Lecture Details

SL.No

Topic

No

Topic

No of Lectures RemarksAuthor

M1

Introduction

L1 Course objective andoverview

1

SB

L2 Historical evolution ofthe field

1 SB

M2

Interactivesystem design(theory andpractice)

L1 Concept of usability -definition andelaboration

1 PY

L2 HCI and softwareengineering

1 SB

L3 GUI design andaesthetics

1 PY

L4 Prototypingtechniques

1 SB

M3

Model-basedDesign andevaluation

L1-L4 Basic idea,introduction todifferent types ofmodels, GOMS familyof models (KLM andCMN-GOMS)

4 SB

L5, L6 Fitts law and Hick-Hymans law

2 SB

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ComputerScience andEngineering

Additional Reading:

Yvonne Rogers,Helen Sharp,Jennifer Preece;Interaction Design3rd Edition Wiley2011FrankBentley,EdwardBarrett BuildingMobile ExperiencesMIP PressCambridge 2012Selected researchpapers (details willbe provided at theend of relevantmaterials).Jacob Nieilsen;UseabilityEngineering;Morgan Kaufmann,Academic Press,London, 1993.

Coordinators:Dr.Samit BhattacharyaDepartment of ComputerScience andEngineeringIIT GuwahatiPradeep P YammiyavarDepartment of ComputerScience andEngineeringIIT Guwahati

L7, L8 Model-based designcase studies

2 SB

M4 Guidelines inHCI

L1 Shneidermans eightgolden rules

1 PY

L2 Normans sevenprinciples

2 PY

L3 Normans model ofinteraction

L4 Nielsens tenheuristics withexample of its use

2 PY

L5 Heuristic evaluation

L6 Contextual inquiry 1 PY

L7 Cognitive walkthrough1 PY

M5

Empiricalresearchmethods in HCI

L1, L2 Introduction(motivation, issues,research questionformulationtechniques)

2 SB

L3, L4 Experiment designand data analysis(with explanation ofone-way ANOVA)

2 SB

M6

Task modelingand analysis

L1 Hierarchical taskanalysis (HTA)

1 PY

L2, L3 Engineering taskmodels and ConcurTask Tree (CTT)

2 SB

M7

Dialog Design

L1 Introduction toformalism in dialogdesign, design usingFSM (finite statemachines)

1 SB

L2 L4 State charts and(classical) Petri Netsin dialog design

3 SB

M8

Cognitivearchitecture

L1 Introduction to CA, CAtypes, relevance ofCA in IS design

1 SB

L2, L3 Model HumanProcessor (MHP)

2 SB

M9 Object OrientedProgramming

L1 OOP- Introduction 1 PY

L2 OOM- ObjectOriented Modeling of User Interface Design

1 PY

M10 Design -CaseStudies

L1 Case Study 1- Multi-Key press Hindi TextInput Method on aMobile Phone

3 PY

L2 Case Study 2 - GUIdesign for a mobilephone basedMatrimonialapplication.

L3 Case Study 3 -EmploymentInformation System forunorganisedconstruction workerson a Mobile Phone.

Total Modules 10 Total Lectures 40 SB = 25PY = 15

References:

Dix A., Finlay J., Abowd G. D. and Beale R. Human Computer Interaction, 3rd edition,Pearson Education, 2005.Preece J., Rogers Y., Sharp H., Baniyon D., Holland S. and Carey T. Human ComputerInteraction, Addison-Wesley, 1994.B. Shneiderman; Designing the User Interface, Addison Wesley 2000 (IndianReprint).

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