CSE595 Topics

CSE 595 -- Winter 2002 -- Topics

• HCI History and Context
• Design and Evaluation: The Process of Developing Interactive Systems
  • User-centered design; rapid prototyping; iterative design
  • Value-Sensitive Design
  • 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
    • heuristic evaluation
    • controlled laboratory experimentation
• Considering work context; participatory design
• Technology: toolkits, architectures for interactive systems, constraints
• 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
• Information search and retrieval (web, etc)
• Information visualization; 3D interfaces
• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
• Beyond the Desktop
  • perceptual interfaces
  • speech
  • vision
  • virtual reality
  • mixed physical/virtual interfaces
  • ubiquitous computing
  • Context-aware and wearable computers
• Agents and intelligent interfaces