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15IT321 HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

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Co-requisite: NIL
Prerequisite: NIL
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Course Category P PROFESSIONAL CORE
Course designed by Department of Information Technology
Approval 32nd Academic Council Meeting , 23rdJuly2016

As an IT professional one may be involved in the design of graphical user interfaces. This course
PURPOSE deals with the cognitive principles involved in conceiving a good user interface and the design
principles to be followed in realizing one such interface.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES STUDENT OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, student will be able to
1. Understand the basic HCI concepts and various design process, standards and c m
guidelines
2. Perform implementation support and evaluation of their design c
3. Learn various models and task analysis l
4. Learn various dialogue notations and importance of groupware l

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Session Description of Topic Contact
D- IOs Reference
Hours
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UNIT I : FOUNDATIONS 6
Cognitive Principles : Human Vision, Hearing, Touch, Movement-
1. 2 C 1 1,5
Output channels- Human memory-STM and LTM
Thinking-Reasoning and problem solving, Emotions, Individual
2. 1 C 1 1
difference(sex, physical age), psychology
Text entry devices, display devices: 3D interaction, paper, memory,
3. 2 C 1 1,2
processing and networks, Ergonomics, Interaction styles
4. WIMP: Interactivity, Design issues : Context and experience 1 D 1 1,2
UNIT II : DESIGN PROCESS 6
Navigation- Screen- Screen design- Iteration and prototyping,
5. 2 D 1 1
Software life cycle- Usability
6. Support Usability- Standards 2 D 1 1,5
7. Guidelines- Golden rules 2 D 1 1,2
UNIT III : IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION 6
8. Elements of Windowing: programming application 1 C 2 1
Toolkits, UI management systems , Goals, Expert analysis-user
9. 2 I 2 1
participation
10. Evaluation methods 1 I 2 1,3,4
11. Universal Design , User support 2 C,D 1 1,2,5
UNIT IV: MODELS AND TASK ANALYSIS 6
12. Cognitive Models, GOMS, linguistic, physical and device models 1 D 3 1,5
Socio-organizational issues :power and organizational structure, free
13. rider problem , Critical mass, invisible workers, stakeholder 2 C 3 1
requirements
14. Communication and collaboration models 1 C 3 1
Ethnography, face to face communication, gesture, body language-
15. 1 C 3 1
back channels-Conversations
 16. Task analysis, task decomposition, knowledge based technique 1 D 3 1
UNIT V: THEORIES AND GROUPWARE 6
Dialogue notations: STN, H-STN, JSD, Petri net, state charts, flow
17. charts , Concurrent dialogues : Modelling rich interaction-status 2 D 4 1,3,4
event analysis-rich set behavior- properties of events
Groupware : definition, time/space matrix, computer mediated
18. communication (email, BB, structured text message, video, virtual 1 C 4 1,3,4
environment)
Meeting and Decision support systems (argumentation tools,
19. 2 C 4 1
meeting rooms, shared work surfaces)
Shared application (shared PCs and windows, shared editors, co-
20. 1 C 4 1
authoring tools, shared diaries)
TOTAL CONTACT HOURS 30*

Sl LEARNING RESOURCES
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1. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd and Russel Beale, "Human Computer Interaction", 3rd Edition,
2004, Pearson Education, ISBN: 978-0130461094
2. K.Meena and R.Sivakumar, "Human-Computer Interaction", 2015, Prentice Hall India, ISBN: 978-
8120350502
3. Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, "Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-
Computer Interaction",5th Edition, , 2009, Pearson Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 978-0-32153735-5
4. Yvonne Rogers, Heken Sharp and Jenny Preece, "Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer
Interaction", 3rd Edition, 2011, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN: 0470665769, ISBN: 978-0470665763
5. John M. Caroll, "Human - Computer Interaction in the Millennium", 2008, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education,
Second Impression, ,ISBN: 978-0-201-70447-1

Course nature Theory

Assessment Method (Weightage 100%)
Assessment Cycle test Surprise
Cycle test I Cycle Test III Quiz Total
In-semester tool II Test
Weightage 10% 15% 15% 5% 5% 50%
End semester examination Weightage : 50%

* - Excluding Assessment Hours