ITI46314 Interaction Design (Autumn 2014)
Facts about the course
- ECTS Credits:
- 15
- Responsible faculty:
- Avdeling for informasjonsteknologi
- Course Leader:
- Harald Holone
- Teaching language:
- English
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is affiliated to the following study programme
Prerequisites
Teaching semester
Content
The course consists of three parts:
- HCI theories and models
- current trends in interaction design
- experimentation, design and evaluation
The student's learning outcomes on passing the course
Knowledge
On completion of the course, the student shall be familiar with
- Activity Theory
- Embodied Interaction
- Distributed Cognition
- Situated Action
- Mental Models
- Ambiguity Framework
- Grounded Theory
- Human Information Processing Model
- Fitts Law
- Guardians Model of Bimanual Skills
- The three waves of HCI research
- central HCI-theories and models, including
- the development of the HCI field and emerging trends
Skills
On completion of the course, the student shall be able to
- design and conduct experiments with existing and new technology for interaction between humans and machines
- relate own work to existing literature, theories and models
- read and reflect on HCI literature
General competence
Through the course, the students will gain competence in critical reading and reflection. In addition, the student will get experience with project work in groups.
Teaching and learning methods
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
The student must during the semester:
- present at least one paper (individual or in a group) and lead a plenary discussion based on this.
- write a scientific paper aimed at publication.
- complete at least one project which includes design, implementation and evaluation of existing or new technology for human-machine interaction.
Coursework requirements must be accepted to qualify for the exam.
Exam
Oral exam
Individual oral exam based on the course curriculum, the scientific paper produced by the student and the student project. Duration approx. 30 min.
Assessment on the A - F grading scale. No aiding tools allowed.
Course evaluation
This course is evaluated by a
- Mid-term evaluation (voluntary)
- End evaluation (compulsory)
The lecturer compiles a report based on the evaluation forms filled in by the students and his/her own experience with the course. The report is the discussed by the study quality committee of the faculty of Computer Sciences.
Reading list
- Designing the user interface (Ben Shneiderman), ISBN 978-8-131-72163-6
- The curriculum will be supported by material (scientific papers) during the semester. The material will be posted on the learning platform - Fronter.