Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction COMP 7022

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe the HCI heuristic and principles.
• Define universal usability, universal design, user experience (UX) and user-centered design.
• Explain how the user interfaces and interaction affect usability.
• Apply cognitive models to the design of user interfaces.
• Perform task analysis, including qualitative aspects of generating task analytic models.
• Classify usability performance and preference metrics: learning, task time, task completion, effectiveness, and user satisfaction.
• Describe common usability guidelines and standards.
• Design interaction that effectively employ localization and globalization technologies and effectively relate to users’ characteristics (i.e., age, education, cultural differences, disabilities, etc.).
• Design, implement and test a software application following iterative steps: low-fidelity prototype, medium-fidelity prototype and high-fidelity prototype.
• Create and conduct usability tests for the designed software application.
• At each iteration evaluate the software application with respect to usability.
• Measure the application’s usability from performance and preference metrics.
• Incorporate the usability evaluation results into iterated designs.

Effective as of Fall 2023

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