Selected student software
projects in the field of HCI
Dusanka Boskovic
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Sarajevo
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Ohrid, Macedonia 22-27 August 2011
Content
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Introduction
Sample projects
Project evaluation
Report for final exam
Conclusion
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HCI Course
• Master studies at Automatic Control and Electronics
Department, 3rd semester, elective course
• Learning outcome:
– Human Computer Interface - Design and
implementation
• Designing HCI as approach to develop usable software
• Lot of theoretical concepts
• Lot of practical work to be done on the way
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Projects
• HCI for process control
– Production according recipe: concrete factory, coffee vending machine
– Conveyor belt
– Sensor networks: meteorology, process regulation, heating and alarm
systems
– Specific control projects: biomedicine, network traffic monitoring and
maintenance
• Business oriented:
– pationt records – dental including graphics,
– customs declaration,
– human rights complaints
• Graphical User Interface
– Census data display
– Wind rose graph
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Concrete factory
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Conveyor belt
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Car dashboard
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Car dashbord – simulation UI
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Custsoms declaration
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Assessment
Detailed and documented student achievemnt:
- Addressing HCI issues
- HCI Design – HCI design principles, HCI design
patterns
- Implementation - scope and results
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Report for exam
• Questionnaire: every lesson covered with
several questions (2-7)
• Provide answers related to the project
– Describe their typical user
– Describe method used in design, and rationale for
method selection
– HCI Design patterns used and assessment of results
achieved by implementing it
– Project evaluation according given software quality
model
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Conclusion
• Important detailed assessment of a project
results
• Presentation of previous projects
• Re-examination of a project by students
through writing exam report
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