User-Centered Design 175421 (5 ECTS)

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Contents

• Human-Computer Interaction in the Context of Software Engineering
• What is User-Centered Design, relation to Usability and Interaction Design
• Understanding users, data collection and analysis.
• Integration of UCD practices into software engineering life cycle
• Methods of UCD - contextual design, participatory design, evaluation

Goals

• to learn how to include user perspective into the design of modern interfaces.
• to become acquainted with
  • a range of different methods in UCD
  • integration of interaction design activities into the software development process
• to be able to
  • conduct a practical user-centered method in real-life context
  • communicate and report findings
  • work in a group of developers and designers

Course arrangements

General info

• master-level level course, language of instruction: English.
• course prerequisites:
  required: aprobatur in computer science, Ihminen ja vuorovaikutteinen teknologia (basic knowledge about HCI)
  recommended: cum laude approbatur in computer science, Graafisten käyttöliittymien toteutus (Designing Graphical User Interfaces).
  It will help you a lot to have any previous experience with designing any interface.

Lectures

32 hours

Monday and Tuesday, 14 - 16, room 2D106

Lecturer: Roman Bednarik

Exceptions: tdb

Lecture notes:

• Lecture 1 + 2
• Presentations 1 2 3
• Visiting lecturer's presentation: Mirja Kälviäinen
• Presentations 4 5 6
• Visiting lecturer's presentation: Carolina Islas Sedano
• Presentations 7 8 9
• Visiting lecturer's presentation: Marcus Duveskog
• Presentations 10 11 12
• Presentations 13 14 15 16

Demo sessions

16 hours

Group 1: Mo, 12-14, room: B180

Group 2: Tu, 12-14, room: B180.

Teacher: Minnamari Naumanen (mnauma@), Tersia // Gowases (tgovases@), Roman Bednarik

Demo assignments:

• Demo 1 Demo 2 Demo 3 Demo 4 Demo 5 Demo 6

Evaluation

• Active participation in lectures and demo sessions.
• Calculation of the grades (preliminary):
  
• Student presentation: 10%, compulsory. Instructions here.
• Course project: 36%. Instructions here.
• A final exams: 30%
• Compulsory demo tasks (8, marked X) : 24% in total. Without passing the compulsory tasks, the course cannot be completed.
• Normal demo tasks (16): max 10% extra
• The course will be graded by using scale 0-5 (5=excellent and 0=failed), where 50% = 1, 60% = 2, 70% = 3, 80% = 4, 90% = 5. If plagiarism will be noticed, the course will be failed and misconduct reported.
  

Literature

• Course books:
  • Interaction Design 2nd edition, by Sharp, Preece, Rogers.
  • Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems by Beyer and Holtzblatt.
  • The Usability Engineering Lifecycle by Deborah Mayhew
• Additional materials:
  • Desing of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
  • Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen
  • Handbook of Usability Testing by Jeffrey Rubin
  • The Design of Everyday Things, D. A. Norman

Additional information

Roman Bednarik
firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi

Visit: Usability Research Group at CS JoY