HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

Course Description:

The course helps students to appreciate the delicate and divergent nature of human and computer interactions. It delves into the dynamics of user interface designs including their evaluations as well as usability issues for both software and related devices.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Appreciate established human-computer interaction approaches and techniques.

2. Acquire knowledge on the design and presentation of user interfaces

3. Explain selected software evaluation techniques and heuristics.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Apply established human-computer interaction approaches and techniques

2. Produce conceptual and physical designs using prototyping methods

3. Evaluate software interfaces using learnt heuristics.