STHCIUX - Human Computer Interactions
Undergraduate course, DLSU CCS ST, 2023
STHCIUX-Human Computer Interactions
Course Coverage
This course introduces the fundamentals of human-computer interaction and human-centered design from research and product design perspectives. As an interdisciplinary field within computer science, HCI integrates theories, principles, and methodologies from engineering, cognitive psychology, social sciences, design, and many other fields. Students will learn principles and guidelines for usability, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and several techniques in designing and evaluating interfaces that support and enrich human activities. Cultural, social, organizational, cognitive, and perceptual factors that guide design decisions will be discussed.
Students will work on team projects following a human-centered design process which involves understanding users’ needs, brainstorming, sketching, making design tradeoffs, exploring design alternatives, communicating and critiquing designs, prototyping, usability testing, and reflecting on these activities. More than anything, we will do interaction design, and students will be interaction designers. We will develop your ability to envision the design of technologies that do not yet exist but, if realized, will produce net benefits for the people involved and affected. Students will also be exposed to current research in HCI, covering a breadth of topics and a range of issues addressed in the field.
General Documents
Slides and Course Materials (will be populated along the weeks)
- Lesson 01a: Course Introduction-So do you wanna be a unicorn?
- Lesson 01b: History of and Introduction to HCI-Before memes, we had the memez
- Lesson 02a: Introduction to Design Process-De-zayn
- Lesson 02b: Studio Session: Design Thinking-Let’s Play.
- Lesson 03a: Introduction to User Research-Needfinding.
- Lesson 03b: Analysing Data-Personas, Empathy Maps and Work Models.
- Lesson 03c: Analysing Data-Thematic Analysis.
- Lesson 04a: Ideation-Brainstorming and Prototyping.
- Lesson 04b: UI UX is like Maam Ser-Prototyping and Heuristic Design.
- Lesson 05a: Graphic Design is my Passion-Fonts Colors Spaces and Layouts.
- Lesson 05b: Ah sh-t here we go again-Visual and Interaction Design Patterns.
- Lesson 05c: Left Blank-Organizing Content with Information Architecture.
- Lesson 05d: Interfaces-Which interface works best for an application or activity.
- Lesson 05e: Information Foraging-How do people look for information.
- Lesson 06a: Evaluation-Usability Studies.
- Lesson 06b: Ethics in HCI-Speculative Ethics.