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10/7/2010

Lectures

Human Computer Interaction
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D R. ANN NOSSEIR

Dr. Ann Nosseir Lectures:
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Thursdays 9:00-11:00 Thursdays 11:00-2:00 –Tuesdays 9:00-12:00

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Office hours:
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[e-mail]  Room: Meeting Room Third floor

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Assessment
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Course Work
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50% Course Work
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Group Assignment (10%) Individual Assignments (10%) Group Project (30%)

Labs Two assignments
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Individual assignment (Presentation)
Group Project (Report and Presentation)

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50% Final Exam

Project
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Reading List
 Designing Interactive Systems Benyon,

What is HCI?
 Human (the end-user or the others in the organisation)  Computer (hardware or software)  e.g. phones, web sites and washing machine controllers and increasingly in clothes, jewellery and buildings  Interaction (user “tells” the computer what (s)he wants and computer communicates results) “When users interact with a computer system, they do so via a user interface (UI)” (Stone et al, p3)
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Interaction
Human
Computer

Turner and Turner
 User Interface Design and Evaluation Stone,

Jarrett, Woodroffe and Minocha
 Designing the User Interface, 4 th Edition,

Shneiderman and Plaisant

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Computer …Interactive Systems?

Interactive Systems?
 The term we use to describe the technologies that

designers work with.

 They are components, devices, products and software

systems concerned with processing information.

 They deal with the transmission, display, storage or

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