Progress

01HCI foundations0 of 4

• What HCI is and why interfaces matter
• Usability, user experience, utility and usefulness
• The six usability goals
• Design rules: standards, guidelines, principles and patterns

02Perception and cognition0 of 6

• Cognition, information processing and visual perception
• Gestalt laws of perception
• Hearing, speech and touch
• Memory, and why recognition beats recall
• Attention, decision-making and Fitts Law
• Emotion, motivation and affective computing

03Cognitive frameworks, interaction design and PACT0 of 4

• Cognitive frameworks, mental models and Norman's gulfs
• Interaction design, user-centred design and the Double Diamond
• Lifecycle models, Agile UX and the practical issues of design
• The PACT framework

04Requirements and data gathering0 of 5

• Requirements, their six types and MoSCoW prioritisation
• Planning data gathering: five key issues and recording
• Surveys and questionnaires
• Interviews and focus groups
• Observation and diary studies

05Analysis, task analysis and presenting findings0 of 4

• Contextual inquiry, ethnography, documentation and choosing techniques
• Analysing data: quantitative and qualitative
• Task analysis: hierarchical task analysis and GOMS
• Presenting findings: use cases, personas and scenarios

06Conceptual design and prototyping0 of 4

• Conceptual models and interface metaphors
• Interaction types and object/operation analysis
• Envisionment: sketches, storyboards, wireframes and wireflows
• Prototypes: lo-fi, hi-fi, Wizard of Oz and compromises

07Prototyping tools, evaluation planning and inspections0 of 5

• Prototyping tools, clickthroughs and physical prototyping
• Planning an evaluation: why, what, where, when
• Ethics in evaluation with people
• Inspections: heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough
• Analytics, A/B testing and model-based evaluation

08Usability testing, experiments and field studies0 of 4

• Usability testing: roles, tasks and participants
• Consent, paperwork, the session and the SUS
• Experiments, variables and experimental designs
• Field studies and in-the-wild evaluation

09Interface types and social interaction0 of 3

• CLI, GUI and post-WIMP interfaces
• Social interfaces: conversation, remote talk and presence
• Co-presence, awareness and shareable interfaces

10Accessibility: colour, contrast and situational impairments0 of 3

• Colour accessibility and colour blindness
• Contrast, legibility and the problem with blue
• Situational impairments and sensing users

11Guest lectures0 of 2

• Guest lecture: mediated social touch
• Guest lecture: AI personality and user perception

12Exam format and sample questions0 of 1

• Exam format, scoring and sample questions