The course discusses in detail the guidelines for graphical user interface design. Upon completion of the course the student will be able to design screens, dialogues and on-line help, and also to design and evaluate the interaction in different use contexts. The student knows input and output modalities and their design possibilities and challenges.
Contents
User centered design. On-line help. Different interaction styles and techniques (forms and dialogue box designs, direct manipulation, menus, agents, hypertext) with guidelines. New interaction techniques. The challenges of the use context (desktop, mobile, ubi) in design.
Teaching methods
Teaching method
Contact
Online
Lectures
24 h
0 h
Tutorials
2 h
0 h
Exercises
14 h
0 h
Teaching language
Finnish,
English
Modes of study
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Recommended year of study
1. year autumn
or later. In Finnish in the autumn semester, in English in the spring semester. Not arranged in English every year.
Study materials
Lecture notes and parts of the books:
Dix, A., Finlay, J., Abowd,G. & Beale, R., Human-Computer Interaction. Third edition. Pearson Education Ltd. 2004. http://www.hcibook.com/e3/
Preece, J. et al., Human-Computer Interaction. Addison-Wesley 1994.
Mullet, K. & Sano, D., Designing Visual Interfaces. Sunsoft 1994.