Mensch-Computer-Interaktion/Human Computer Interaction (WS 2009/2010)

This course was held the last time in WS 2009/2010. From winter term 10/11 onwards I am offering the 6 ECTS course "Usability-Projekt" where basic principles of HCI and empirical research methods are introduced and an empirical usability study is conducted -- whenever possible together with a local software company. This course is eligible for bachelor as well as master students as project in Applied Computer Science. Please refer to the page Master-Projekt Kognitive Systeme for further information.

General Information

• For a general course description please read the corresponding pages from the WIAI module guide.
• You find administrative information at UnivIS.
• Participants should sign up for the course in the virtual campus.
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  (Reason: One of the discussion groups involves our cooperation with external companies and these discussions should not have open accessability.)

In winter term 2009/2010 the practice part of HCI will be realised jointly with two software companies. We will conduct a user study to help to evaluate and redesign a specific software system.

Recommended Reading / Links

Recommended textbooks:

• Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd, Russell Beale (2004). Human-Computer Interaction (3rd Ed.). Prentice Hall.
• Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp (2002). Interaction Design. Wiley.

Further reading:

• Stephen M. Kosslyn. Elements of Graph Design. W. H. Freeman & Co, 1993 [ Review]
• William Newman, Michael Lamming (1995). Interactive System Design, Addison Wesley.
• Mark Maybury, Wolfgang Wahlster (1998). Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann.
• B. Goldstein (2002). Sensation and Perception, 6th edition. WADSWORTH.
• J.R. Anderson (2000). Cognitive Psychology and its Implications, Fifth Edition. Worth Publishing.
• J. Bortz. Lehrbuch der empirischen Forschung für Sozialwissenschaftler. Springer.
• H. Balzert (2000). Lehrbuch der Software-Technik (1). Spektrum. Chap. 16-20 (Ergonomie)
• Excerpt of relevant ISO Norms

Relevant links:

• HCI Bibliography
  Linksammlung zu Literatur und Software.
• Usability First
  Glossary
• ACT-R Homepage
• GOMS
• Usability Metaphors
• Usability Standards

Lecture Notes

1. Introduction to HCI [ pdf]
2. Human Perception and (Cognitive) Ergonomics I [ pdf]
3. Human Perception and (Cognitive) Ergonomics II
4. Empirical Evaluation of Software-Systems I [ pdf ]
5. Empirical Evaluation of Software-Systems II 
6. Memory Organization and Information Presentation [ pdf ]
7. Knowledge Representation and Users' Mental Models I [ pdf]
8. Knowledge Representation and Users' Mental Models II
9. Cognitive Architectures  [ pdf ]
10. User Modeling with GOMS [ pdf ]
11. Tutor Systems I [ pdf] see also: History of ITS, in German, by Puppe
12. Tutor Systems II
13. Enduser Programming [ pdf ]
14. Problem Solving by Analogy [ pdf ]
15. Summary and Perspectives

Exercise

In winter term 09/10 we did two usability studies for software systems of the local companies GSD and Docufy. The reports, presentation slides and fotos are available via the VC-course.

Past Studies:

• WS 0809: Do People Prefer Irrational Ratios? A New Look at the Golden Section ( Report)
• WS 0708: The effect of video console training on performance in bowling ( Report) ( Paper)
• SS 07: Designing and evaluating a "HowTo" poster for the copying machines of Uni BA ( Report)
• SS 06: Designing a usability study for VC
• SS 05: Comparing the understandability of two different graph representations

Excursion to the " Tower of Senses" 

• WS 0910
• WS 0809
• WS 0708, Gruppenbild
• SS 07

Further Documents

Introduction to LaTeX by Klaus Stein (2005) [ pdf]

Talk by Thomas Wittenberg, Fraunhofer IIS (Feb 2008): Computer-Assisted Diagnosis [ pdf]

Course Archive

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