Level
Ki-B1
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Contents
It is generally acknowledged that for the development of usable interactive systems, knowledge about the user and his perceptive, cognitive, and motor capabilities deserves a prominent treatment in the design process. The past decennia have resulted in numerous research efforts that have tried to systematically pursue the question of how to achieve this goal. The book from Dix et al. (2004) provides a nice introduction to human-computer interaction (HCI), an area that spans the boundaries between technological advancements and cognitive science. Central theme of HCI concerns the question how usable interactive systems can be designed and how the usability of such systems can be assessed. Students following this course will learn the foundations and prominent novel directions in HCI. They will design and implement interactive systems en evaluate their usability in so called human-factors experiments. Besides techniques and paradigms in HCI that have proven their value in the past (like "the desktop" and "the Internet"), new developments will be studied (like multimedia, perceptive interfaces, multimodality and mobile computing), and it will be discussed what consequences these developments have for HCI of the future. For more information, visit the course website at http://www.ai.ru.nl/aicourses/bki114.
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Literature
- Dix, A. Finlay, I., Abowd, G. & Beale, R. Human-Computer Interaction (3nd. Ed.), 2004. London: Pierson / Prentice Hal
- See http://www.ai.ru.nl/aicourses/bki114
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Teaching methods
Lectures and practical working hours.
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Information
dr. L.G. Vuurpijl, B.02.33, tel. 3615981, e-mail:
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Coördinerend docent
dr. L.G. Vuurpijl
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Exam
Verschillende practicumopdrachten en 2 deeltentamens. Het eindcijfer is het gemiddeld van practicum en tentamens.
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Exam information
Two exams and grades earned for the practical assignments.
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Enrollment verplicht via KISS/TIS tot 2 werkdagen voor aanvang; deze inschrijving geldt tevens voor het tentamen |