CA243: Human Computer Interaction

General Information

The approved university module specification.


Sample Examination Paper

This is a sample exam paper. for this module.

This paper is set out in exactly the format and style of question that will be appear in the examination.


Continuous Assessment

The continuous assessment for this module consists two components:

CA Part 1

The first component of the continuous assessment is described in the following document: HCI Continuous Assessment 1: part 1. This is a presentation working in pairs. This is the list of assigned pairs for this assignment. Please note these presentations will take place on Monday 8th March.

The second component of the continuous assessment is described in the following document: HCI Continuous Assessment 1: part 2. This is again a presentation working in pairs. You should work in the same pairs as for the first part of this assignment given above. Please note these presentations will take place on Monday 12th April. Slides for your presentation should be sent to me by 17.00 on Friday 9th April, please see the details of the assignment for further details.

The third component of the continuous assessment is described in the following document: HCI Continuous Assessment 1: part 3. This is again a presentation working in pairs. You should work in the same pairs as for the first and second parts of this assignment given above. Please note these presentations will take place on Monday 26th th April. Slides for your presentation should be sent to me by 17.00 on Friday 23rd April, please see the details of the assignment for further details.

CA Part 2

Details of the HCI Continuous Assessment 2.

Following discussions, I have now agreed that pair submissions will be allowed for this CA. See the following additional details:HCI Continuous Assessment 2 team working.


Lecture Notes

Copies of the lecture notes in pdf format.

Slides
Section
1 up A4 slides
1: Introduction a4pdf
2: Design Paradigms a4pdf
3: Users and User Requirements a4pdf
UCD Case Study a4pdf
5: Task Analysis a4pdf
5a: Task Analysis - Supplement a4pdf
6: Cognitive Issues a4pdf
7: Designing the Interface a4pdf
8: Designing Graphical User Interfaces a4pdf
8: Evaluation a4pdf


Other Materials

Designing the Future Interesting article from IEEE Computer January 2010.

Handbook from CA593 User Interface Development. These notes were originally produced some years ago for a module on User Interface Development. Some of the material covers topics from CA243 and provides useful further descriptions of these topics to support the lecture notes.


Dr Gareth Jones
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 5559 Fax: +353 (0)1 7005442
email: Gareth.Jones @ computing.dcu.ie