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Contents for CPSC 481
These pages provide a detailed description of the undergraduate Computer Science course: CPSC 481: Foundations and Principles of Human Computer Interaction. See www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/481/index.html
Course administration	Course description Diagrammatic overview: The interface design and usability engineering process Schedule
Topics and overheads	Part 1. Overview Introduction to the Course and to HCI Part 2: Understanding users and their tasks Task-Centered System Design Part 3: Designing with the user User Centered Design and Prototyping Evaluating Interfaces with Users: Qualitative Methods Part 4: Designing visual interfaces Psychology of Everyday Things Beyond Screen Design Graphical Screen Design Part 5: Principles for Design Design Principles and Usability Heuristics Part 6: The Past and the Future History of Human Computer Interaction Visions of the future
Assignments	Note: the assignments included below are subject to change. Task centered design and prototyping Usability studies System redesign, implementation, and evaluation
Teaching assistants	Lab Materials
Resources	Literature Resources Video Resources Example VB Programs
Related items	SEng 609.05: Graphical user interfaces: Design and usability A version of this course I teach to software engineers Publications describing this course: Greenberg, S. (1996) Teaching Human Computer Interaction to Programmers. long version [Html] or [Adobe Pdf], ACM Interactions, July/August, 1996 short version [Html] or [Adobe Pdf], ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, March, 1996.

Contents for CPSC 481