SemesterFall Semester, 2023
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in International Communication Studies, First Year International Master's Program in International Communication Studies, Second Year
Course NameHuman-Computer Interaction and Design
InstructorCHEN YI-HSIU
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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週次



Week



課程主題



Topic



課程內容與指定閱讀



Content and Reading Assignment



教學活動與作業



Teaching Activities and Homework



學習投入時間



Student workload expectation



課堂講授



In-class Hours



課程前後



Outside-of-class Hours



1



Introduction of the course



What is interaction?



Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction



Course Requirements



Ground rules



Grades and projects



 



Lecture



3



3



2



Communication and HCI



Basic communication theories



Mechanisms of dialogues



Cooperative principles



Common ground



Similarities and differences of Human-system interaction



 



Lecture



3



3



3



The Psychological Basis of HCI



Vision



Attention



Memory



What is "intuitive"?



Laws of Human Factors



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.5



4



Basic Concepts of Interaction



System image



Three levels of response



Metaphor



Mental models



Basic interface cues



Prevent unwanted interactions



Seven stages of processes



distributed cognition



 



Lecture



3



3



5



Human Errors



Mistakes



Slips



Revisiting seven-stage processes



social pressure



Swiss Cheese model



 



Lecture; in-class project



3



4.5



6



Emotion



What is emotion?



Theories of emotion



Hedonics hierarchy



Fluency of behavior



Kansei engineering



 



Lecture



3



3



7



Design Research



Basic understanding before interface design



HCI research methods



Qualitative method



Quantitative method



Then what?



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.5



8



Task Analysis and Use Cases



Analysis of behavior



Task analysis



Use Cases



User interface components



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.53



9



Information Architecture



What is architecture?



Basic principles of IA



Organize/Tab/Navigate/Search



Meta data



IA and eco system



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.5



10



Attitude and Characters



Attitudes of interfaces



Building characters



Good behavior



From novice to power users



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.5



11



Prototype



What is a prototype?



Prototype of interfaces



Types of prototypes



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.5



12



Evaluation



Objectives of evaluation



Cognitive assessment



different assessment methods



A/B Testing



misuse of assessment



 



Lecture; homework



3



4.5



13



Metaverse



Augmented reality, AR



Definition and architecture



Virtual reality, VR



Real meaning of VR



 



Lecture



3



3



14



BCI and AI



Brain-computer interface, BCI



Artificial intelligence, AI



Impacts of AI



Human-agent interaction, HAI



Trust in HAI



 



Lecture



3



3



15



TA Session



TA Sessions in preparation of end-of-term report and poster session



 



Discussion



3



6



16



End-of-Term Poster Session



Poster session to present the final products of your project



 



Poster Session



3



0



Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

TBD


Requirement/Grading

The total score of 100 points will be the accumulation of these activities:




  • One individual homework, maximum 10 points (10%)

  • Six group assignments, maximum 10 points each (60%)

  • Final poster session, 30 points (30%,15 of which will be graded by the instructor and TA, the other 15 graded by fellow students.


Textbook & Reference

E-Books recommended, available on Kindle



 



The Design of Everyday Things




  • By Don Norman

  • Basic Books

  • ISBN: 9780465050659



 



Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things




  • By Don Norman

  • Basic Books

  • ISBN: 9780465051366



 



 



Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond, 4th Edition





About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design 4th Edition






  • Wiley



ISBN:‏‎ 9781118766576


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