Topics in HCI

• What is HCI? Basic Principles and Elements.
  • Intro : Intro to HCI
  • HCI Definition: ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction
  • History of HCI : A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology
  • Bad Design : A Look at Bad Designs
• Guidelines, Expert Advice
  • First Principles (Bruce Tognazzini)
• Cognitive Science Background
  • Presentations: GOMS: Goals, Operators, Methods, Selection Rules
    Modeling, Part 1
    Modeling, Part 2
    
  • ACT-R theory: A Simple Theory of Complex Cognition and more ACT-R related publications
  • SOAR: The SOAR Home page and Cognitive Theory, SOAR
• Psych Background
  • Human attention, perception, memory
    • Human attention, perception, memory
    • The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our C apacity for Processing Information
    • Stroop Effect Demo
  • Making Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight
  • Effective Color Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
• Implementation Languages and Toolkits / Interaction Design
  • Creating Graphical User Interfaces with Java: Applets and Applications
  • Interaction Design
  • Java Look-and-Feel Design Guidelines
  • Ajax/ Ruby on Rails / Java Struts / other
• Evaluation
  • Evaluation
  • Questionnaire Design
  • Working with Human Subjects
  • Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis
• Requirements Gathering -> Implementation
  • Designing for Collaboration and Communication
  • The Process of Interaction Design
  • Identifying Needs and Establishing Requirements: Requirements Analysis,
  • Task Analysis, Creating E-R diagrams
  • Prototyping and Construction
  • User-centered approaches to interaction design
• Related Topics
  • Web Design
  • Designing for other interfaces (PDA, cell phone, wearable, etc.)
  • other ...