The course focuses on providing students with specialized knowledge in research methodology for investigating user experience (with an emphasis on usability and accessibility), as well as in evaluating interaction techniques in advanced interactive technologies and applications, along with the phenomena that emerge from the process.
Key topics of the course include: generalized methodology for user experience evaluation (research questions, procedure, sampling, statistical tests, reporting), issues of usability and user experience in advanced interfaces (indicatively: gesture-based, mobile and wearable devices, extended reality, etc.), and issues of digital accessibility and assistive technologies.
The course laboratory and exercises involve usability and user experience evaluation, interaction techniques, etc., as well as critical review of contemporary literature from conferences and journals in the field.
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- Cohen, M. H. (2004). Voice user interface design. J. P. Giangola, & J. Balogh (Eds.). Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Kortum, P. (2008) HCI Beyond the GUI, Elsevier.
- Nielsen, J., & Pernice, K. (2010). Eyetracking web usability. New Riders.
- Shaffer, D. (2009) Designing Gestural Interfaces, ’Reilly.
- Wigdor, D., & Wixon, D. (2011). Brave NUI world: designing natural user interfaces for touch and gesture. Elsevier.
Additional:
- Kaptelinin, V. & Bannon, L.J. (2012) Interaction Design Beyond the Product: Creating Technology-Enhanced Activity Spaces, Human–Computer Interaction, 27:3, 277-309.
- Ishii, H. & Ullmer, B. (1997) Tangible Bits - Towards Seamless Interfaces between people bits and atoms, CHI'97.
- Hinrichs & Karpendale (2011) Gestures in the Wild: Studying Multi-Touch Gesture Sequences on Interactive Tabletop Exhibits, CHI 2011.
- Markopoulos, P., and Rauterberg, G. W. M. (2000). LivingLab: A White Paper, 35, I. A. P. R.
- Jacob, R.J.K., and Karn, K.S., (2003) Eye tracking in human-computer interaction and usability research: Ready to deliver the promises (Section Commentary), in The Mind's Eye: Cognitive and Applied Aspects of Eye Movement Research, J. Hyona, Radach, R., and Deubel, H., Editor 2003, Elsevier Science. Amsterdam. p. 573--605.