SEng 609.05 Graphical User Interfaces: Design and usability Saul Greenberg, Instructor

Contents

Introduction to the Course and to Graphical User Interface Design

The course starts with a brief administrative overview, indicating its purpose, structure, objectives, and so on. A taxonomy of HCI is then used to present an overview of the field, and to indicate what this course will cover and what it will leave out.

Overheads

• Course Introduction: [HTML] or [Postscript, 266K]
• Overview and Taxonomy of HCI: [Pdf]

Handouts

• A Taxonomy of Human Computer Interaction

Topics Covered

• Administrivia
  • Interface design and usability engineering
  • Course structure, objectives and evaluation
  • Text and reference books

• Overview and Taxonomy of Human Computer Interaction
  • ACM Map of Human Computer Interaction

Readings from Baecker Grudin Buxton and Greenberg

• Preface, p.xii-xiii describes how the text relates to the ACM Curricula.
• The course handout (not in the text) A Taxonomy of Human Computer Interaction gives the detail of the material covered in this presentation.

Major sources used to prepare the lecture material

• The readings mentioned above
• The Map of Human Computer Interaction was taken from The ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction , ACM Press.