CM20319: Human-computer interaction and user experience
[Page last updated: 04 August 2021]
Academic Year: | 2021/2 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Computer Science |
Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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Assessment Summary: | CW40EX60 |
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Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take CM10313 |
Aims: | * To provide students with a foundation in human-computer interaction as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the design and use of interactive systems. * To introduce theories, principles and practices that underpin effective interaction design. * To equip students with quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis techniques that are appropriate for assessing the value of an interactive system and the user experience that it provides. |
Learning Outcomes: | After successfully completing this unit students will be able to:
* Explain principles of interaction design that apply across a diverse range of interactive systems. * Use established techniques for understanding human activity and modelling human-computer interactions. * Apply interaction and user experience design methods to produce a demonstrable prototype of an interactive system, which provides support for the goals of a defined user group. * Select and use appropriate analytical and empirical evaluation techniques in order to critically evaluate an interaction design. |
Skills: | Use of IT (T/F, A), Problem Solving (T/F, A), Working with Others (T/F, A), Communication (A). |
Content: | Content will cover a range of topics in human-computer interaction and user experience. Examples of topics include:
* General foundations of Human-Computer Interaction * Human perception as it relates to the design and use of interactive systems * Human cognition and performance * Task analysis * Models of interaction (e.g. gulfs of execution and evaluation) * Usability - introduction to the concept and principles * Principles of user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design * Prototyping techniques * Qualitative and quantitative data evaluation techniques * Virtual, augmented and mixed reality user interfaces * Human-robot interaction and interaction with machine intelligence * HCI in industry (UX) * HCI in research. |
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CM20319 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Computer Science
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