CSE 510 -- Winter 1999 -- Topics

• Course overview; Introduction to HCI; Importance of Design
  Reading: Don Norman, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Things"
• HCI History and Context
  Reading: "The Xerox Star: A Retrospective"; also Alan Kay videotape
• Design and Evaluation: The Process of Developing Interactive Systems
  • user-centered design; rapid prototyping; iterative design
  • McGrath paper on methodology in the social sciences
  • Techniques for observation and understanding the user's needs
    • ethnography
    • contextual inquiry
  • Design techniques: storyboarding, scenario based design, sketching, brainstorming techniques
  • Techniques for Usability Testing
    • informal vs formal user testing
    • ethnography
    • contextual inquiry
    • heuristic evaluation
    • controlled laboratory experimentation
• Considering work context; participatory design
• Tools for UI Construction
• Psychological Foundations
  • GOMS model
  • perceptual issues
  • topics in social psychology relevant to HCI: computers as social actors, internet use and its effects
• Linguistic foundations
• Philosophical foundations (Wittgenstein)
• the role of metaphor
• Visualization
• Hot topics in HCI
• perceptual interfaces
• speech
• vision
• virtual reality
• agents and intelligent interfaces
• CSCW
• ... etc ...