Lecture Topics in Human Computer Interaction

These pages collect various topics, assignments and materials in human computer interaction that I select for use in my introductory human computer interaction courses

Topics	Part 1. Overview Introduction to the academic course and to HCI (updated summer 2004) Introduction to the industrial course and to HCI I hate computers: A 1 hour motivational introduction to HCI (updated summer 2005) Part 2: Understanding Design Design of Everyday Things (updated summer 2004) History of Human Computer Interaction (updated summer 2005) Part 3: Designing with the User Evaluating Interfaces with Users: Qualitative Methods Evaluating Interfaces with Users: Controlled Experiments User Centered Design and Prototyping (updated summer 2005) Part 4: Designing Without the User Task-Centered System Design (updated summer 2004) High Level Models of Human Behaviour (old, but still valid) Part 4: Designing Visual Interfaces Beyond Screen Design Graphical Screen Design Usability Heuristics Part 5: Implementing GUIs Windowing Systems and Toolkits (old, language specific, dated) Visual Basic Examples (old, language specific, dated) Part 6: The Future Visions of the future (old)
Assignments	A design project in two parts: Task Centered Design and Prototyping Iterative Design of an Interactive Interface A design project in one part (a variation on the above project) Usability Studies Quantitative Evaluation Through a Controlled Experiment
Auxilliary materials	Text description for Baecker, Grudin, Buxton and Greenberg Literature Resources: texts, journals, conference proceedings Video Resources on HCI Bad Interfaces
Teaching assistants	Lab Materials
Courses using this material	CPSC 481: Foundations and Principles of Human Computer Interaction An introductory undergraduate course in HCI SEng 609.05 An introductory (condensed) course in HCI at the graduate level Graphical user interfaces: Design and usability A version of this course that I teach to industrial professionals
Publications describing this course	Greenberg, S. (1996) Teaching Human Computer Interaction to Programmers. long version [Html] or [Adobe Pdf], ACM Interactions, July/August, 1996 short version [Html] or [Adobe Pdf], ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, March, 1996.