COURSES

Goals

The goal of the course is to acquaint the student with the main principles and novel trends of human-computer interaction. Beside general competences, such as to adopt strategies and methods appropriate to problem solving and decision making, ability to apply theory in to practice and to carry out activities in an autonomous, responsible and creative manner, the students completing this course will gain understanding of visual perception and associated information visualization strategies and techniques. They will get the knowledge of traditional interaction styles and learn the principles of designing natural user interfaces. They will also get the knowledge and skills for performing usability testing. They will also achieve the ability to generate creative solutions for interactions based on the latest technologies.

Curriculum

Interaction styles: overview of traditional interaction styles, current trends toward natural user interfaces Taxonomy of touch screen sensing properties: sensed objects, sensed information, display properties Gesture system: properties of a gesture language, mode and flow model of a gesture language Visual perception: characteristics of visual variables, organization of screen elements, eye-tracking methodology Information visualization: principles of visual representation, information structures, presentation strategies, navigation strategies, interaction strategies Taxonomies of quality of multimodal human-computer interaction: quality of service, quality of experience Usability testing: goals of usability testing, exploratory study, assessment test, verification test, usability testing in specific domains