Human-Computer Interaction
The course addresses different ways of understanding the computer in human use, specifically focusing on interaction and interfaces (HCI). The course emphasizes methodological questions concerning the production of design-oriented knowledge on interaction and interfaces, including multimedia interfaces. The course will give a historical outline of the development of human-computer interaction and interfaces from a theoretical, a methodological as well as a practical perspective
The basic theoretical perspective on HCI introduced in the course is human activity theory. The course will include topics like: the intellectual history of HCI; interface paradigms; perspectives on the use situation, including the relation between aesthetics and HCI; interface typology and the relation between interface typology and situation of use (e.g. mobile or in the home); evaluation techniques; and analytical methods for early assessment.
The students will learn to perform selected methods for evaluation and interface analysis through practical experiments and they will learn to reflect theoretically and historically by writing analyses based on own experiments. The course includes a number of obligatory exercises.
Lecturer: Olav Bertelsen
Literature:
Papers and articles (possibly a textbook).
Lectures:
2 hours/week
Exercises:
3 hours/week
Course Language:
Danish
Evaluation:
A number of smaller reports and an individual discussion
Credits: 10 ECTS
Quarter
3+4