Definitions of HCI. Differences with related fields. Where HCI came from. An overview of HCI research areas. The structure of the course.

The concept of the user interface. The concept of the interaction. The context of use concept. The concept of user experience. The concept of usability. Human-centered design process. The place of UX design activities in the whole product development process.

The concept of usability problems. Interaction problems of other kinds. Usability metrics and how to derive them.

The concept of the design space. Why an exploration of design alternatives is necessary. An overview of some creativity tools. Selecting design alternatives.

Model-based user interface design. The use of formal methods in usability evaluation. Current state of the approach in industry. The application of the approach to designing text entry techniques.

An overview of various forms of design representations. Functions of representations. An over-view of modern 2D prototyping tools.

What is the evaluation all about? A classification of usability evaluation methods. An overview of the methods.

Variety of usability testing. Basics of experimental research. Research hypotheses. Experimental design. Statistical analysis and significance tests.

Usability inspections methods. Personas and scenarios. Scenario-based walkthrough. Analyzing usability data.

Forms of design knowledge. What exactly should be stored? How to find relevant design knowledge. Selected design patters and guidelines.

Is conversation the right fit? Peculiarities of conversation design process. Building the discourse model. Designing the flow & crafting the dialog. Grice's maxims. Selected design patterns and guidelines. The question of style.

A classification of prototyping tools & techniques. An overview of digital prototyping tools for CUIs.

Usability evaluation methods. Wizard of Oz testing. Peculiarities of CUI evaluation.

Origins of TUIs. Overview of systems with a tangible UI. Pros and cons of TUIs. Selected de-sign patterns.

The concept of accessibility. Dimensions of diversity. An overview of assistive technologies. Evaluation of accessibility. Overview of tools and techniques to ensure accessibility of a digital prod-uct.

Human memory. Reasoning and problem solving. Emotion. Norman's Stages-of-action model. Idiomatic user interfaces.

Overview of modern theories about experience. Properties of experience. Qualities of experi-ence. Evaluating user experience.

When to use gamification. Examples of app gamification. Player-centered design. An overview of game mechanics.

HCI practitioners and researchers: Is there any difference? Types of research problems in HCI. An overview of some seminal papers.

Usability inspections methods. Personas and scenarios. Scenario-based walkthrough. Analyzing usability data.

This is an individual assignment which implies taking the "Interaction Design: An Introduction" quiz online.

To complete this assignment a student has to team up with four other students. The project implies designing a text entry method for a given context of use. Upon the completion of this assignment each team has to submit several alternative designs of the entry method and a justification for the de-sign the team considers the most promising, as well as make a presentation which, alongside with the designs, sheds lights on the process the team has employed to come up with the solutions. Teams should bear in mind that the solutions they propose are benchmarked against a baseline solution given by the professor in the next assignment. Results of the benchmark influence a grade of the next assignment, hence, it is of great importance to design a text entry method with particular usability goals in mind. Design concepts are prepared by every team and presented on the 2nd seminar, otherwise the grade for practice activities is reduced.

This team project is a continuation of the previous one. It implies preparing an interactive prototype of a proposed entry method and conducting an experiment which designed to benchmark the proposed and baseline designs against each other. It is allowed to test several designs proposed by a team. To complete the assignment each team has to find participants, conduct an experiment, and analyze gathered data. The experimental plan is provided by the professor.

This is an individual assignment which implies taking the "Usability Inspection Methods & Intro to Usability Evaluation" quiz online.

This individual assignment implies conducting scenario-based walkthrough and writing a report which contains all discovered usability problems. A user interface and personas are given as a part of the assignment. A draft of the report is prepared by a student and presented on the 7th or 8th seminars, otherwise the grade for practice activities is reduced (PA). During the seminars the professor discusses the draft with a student and gives tips on how to improve it which is quite important because results of this assignment cannot be resubmitted.

To complete this assignment a student has to team up with four other students. The project implies designing a chatbot and implementing it in the form of an interactive prototype on the platform of the team's choice. Recommendations regarding the platform are given by the professor. Also each team has to present its design during a presentation on the 10th seminar. Design concepts are prepared by every team and presented on the 9th seminar, otherwise the grade for practice activities is reduced (PA).

This individual assignment implies conducting an accessibility evaluation and writing a report which contains all findings. A user interface (mobile or web) and a sequence of user's actions (evaluation scenario) are given as a part of this assignment. A draft of the report is prepared by a student and presented on the 11th or 12th seminars, otherwise the grade for practice activities is reduced (PA). During the seminars the professor discusses the draft with a student and gives tips on how to improve it.

Oral examination, 2 questions

0.3 * Final exam (FE) + 0.12 * Homework 1 (HW1) + 0.12 * Homework 2 (HW2) + 0.1 * Practice Activities (PA) + 0.03 * Quiz 1 (Q1) + 0.03 * Quiz 2 (Q2) + 0.1 * Team project 1 (TP1) + 0.1 * Team project 2 (TP2) + 0.1 * Team project 3 (TP3)