Aims & Learning Objectives:
Aims. To give the students an introductory understanding of requirements, design, and evaluation. To raise students awareness of usability and human factors. To give students a grounding in different evaluation approaches.
Objectives:
The students should be able to carry out analysis of domains, user, and task requirements, using a method of analysis. They should be able to undertake different evaluations.
Content:
Task analysis, requirements analysis. Analytical and empirical evaluation of usability of user interface for supporting user tasks. Evaluation methods: general categories of empirical and analytical methods. Analytical: discount usability approaches and task analytic approaches. Empirical: experimental and observational (concurrent protocols and retrospective protocols).
Core Reading; Largely from journal papers in the Journal of Human Computer Interaction and the International Journal of Human Computer Studies.
J Nielsen Usability Engineering, Addison Wesley 1997 T Winograd & P Adler Usability; turning technologies into tools Oxford 1992
T Winograd Bringing Design to Software, Addison Wesley 1996.
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