Week

Topic

Content

Activities

Workload Expectation

1

Introduction of the course

What is interaction?

Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction

Course Requirements

Ground rules

Grades and projects

Lecture

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

The Psychological Basis of HCI

Vision

Attention

Memory

What is “intuitive”?

Laws of Human Factors

Lecture; homework

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

5

Human Errors

Mistakes

Slips

Revisiting seven-stage processes

social pressure

Swiss Cheese model

Lecture;

in-class project

4.5

6

Emotion

What is emotion?

Theories of emotion

Hedonics hierarchy

Fluency of behavior

Kansei engineering

Lecture

3

7

Design Research

Basic understanding before interface design

HCI research methods

Qualitative method

Quantitative method

Then what?

Lecture; homework

6

8

Task Analysis and Use Cases

Analysis of behavior

Task analysis

Use Cases

User interface components

Lecture; homework

4.5

9

Information Architecture

What is architecture?

Basic principles of IA

Organize/Tab/Navigate/Search

Meta data

IA and eco system

Lecture; homework

4.5

10

Attitude and Characters

Attitudes of interfaces

Building characters

Good behavior

From novice to power users

Lecture; homework

4.5

11

Prototype

What is a prototype?

Prototype of interfaces

Types of prototypes

Lecture; homework

4.5

12

Evaluation

Objectives of evaluation

Cognitive assessment

different assessment methods

A/B Testing

misuse of assessment

Lecture; homework

4.5

13

Metaverse

Augmented reality, AR

Definition and architecture

Virtual reality, VR

Real meaning of VR

Lecture

3

14

BCI and AI

Brain-computer interface, BCI

Artificial intelligence, AI

Impacts of AI

Human-agent interaction, HAI

Trust in HAI

Lecture

6

15

AI UX Tools

Project Activities with AI Tools

   

Discussion

6

16

End-of-Term Poster Session

Poster session to present the final products of your project

Poster Session

0