‫اململكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعلمي العايل‬
‫جامعة املكل عبد العزيز‬
‫لكية احلاس بات وتقنية املعلومات‬
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Higher Education
King Abdul Aziz University
Faculty of Computing and Information
Technology
Department of Information Technology
CPIT 280 – Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Saim Rasheed (srahmed@kau.edu.sa)
Lab Coordinator: Rayed Alakhtar (ralakhter@kau.edu.sa)
Course Description
This course talks about strategies of effective HCI techniques that help users of interactive systems to
communicate and/or interact with them in an efficient and friendly way. The students will learn and
understand the basic principles and guidelines for designing of interactive systems. This course will not
talk about interaction techniques between humans and computers but also extends its boundaries to
discuss overall interaction design. For instance, you may focus around your daily life and start observing
different machines, e.g, microwave oven, air conditioning machines, smart TVs etc. Students will also learn
how to evaluate usability of interactive systems and how to adopt User’s experiences and User-Centered
Design approaches, prototyping approaches for successful interactive systems. Some expert level
evaluation methods will also be discussed. More interestingly, some emerging technologies like BrainComputer Interfacing, Mobile and Wearable Computing would be part of discussion throughout the
course. Apart from inner design complexities of interactive systems, we would also focus on outer physical
boundaries of an interactive system i.e. how to draw physigram models of such systems. At the end, Data
analysis, interpretation and presentation techniques will also be discussed that would help end users to
understand physical meanings of real life data and how to organize them in an effective and efficient way.
Following is brief break down of course contents.
Weekly Schedule
Week
No
1
List of Topics
Topic Details
Human-Computer Interaction - a brief
Introduction
What is meant by HCI, where it came
from? Thinking beyond the desktop
2
Interaction Design, Beyond HCI
3
Guidelines, Principles, and Theories
What is interaction design? What is
involved in the process of interaction
design?, The goals of interaction design,
Good and Poor Design
Eight golden rules of interface design,
How to choose an interaction style.
4
Usability of Interactive Systems - 1
Usability evaluation and testing, Usability
standards – international, OS, accessibility
5
Usability of Interactive Systems - 2
Usability evaluation and testing, Usability
standards – international, OS, accessibility
6
Developing Effective Interfaces - 1
Understanding the user experiences, User
centered Designs and interaction styles
7
Developing Effective Interfaces - 2
Matching interface elements to user
requirements, GUIs and Non-GUIs
8
Evaluating Interface Designs
9
Prototyping - 1
10
Prototyping - 2
Expert review methods, like, Heuristics,
Guidelines review, Consistency inspection,
Cognitive walkthrough, Metaphors of
human thinking and Formal usability
inspection
Low fidelity and High fidelity Prototyping,
Paper Prototyping, Wireframe
Prototyping
Low fidelity and High fidelity Prototyping,
Paper Prototyping, Wireframe
Prototyping
11
Emerging Technologies - 1
12
Emerging Technologies - 2
13
Physigram: Modelling Devices for
Natural Interaction
14
Data analysis, interpretation and
presentation - 1
15
Data analysis, interpretation and
presentation - 2
Virtual reality systems, Brain-Computer
Interfaces and Display Technologies
(heads-up, goggles, etc.
Mobile computing, Wearable computing
and Pervasive Computing
Physical Devices, their states and
Feedback, Exposed States and Physical Logical Mapping
Qualitative and Quantitative data and
analysis, data gathered from
questionnaires, interviews and
observations and commonly available
software packages for data analysis
Qualitative and Quantitative data and
analysis, data gathered from
questionnaires, interviews and
observations and commonly available
software packages for data analysis
Recommended Books
•
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 5th edition,
by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant.
•
Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction, 3rd edition, by Helen Sharp, Yvonne
Rogers, Jenny Preece.
•
Human Computer Interaction, 3rd edition, by Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd, Russell
Beale.
For further online reading, https://www.interaction-design.org/
Course Relationship to key student outcomes (ABET)
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Assessment Tools and Distribution of Grades
Assessment Tools
First Examination
Second Examination
Final Examination
Lab
Assignments/Projects
Total
Distribution of grades
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15%
30%
20%
20%
100%
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