Contents for Lecture Topics in HCI

Part 1. Overview 

Introduction to the Course and to HCI 

Part 2: Understanding Design 

Psychology of Everyday Things 

History of Human Computer Interaction 

Part 3: Designing with the User 

Evaluating Interfaces with Users: Qualitative Methods

Evaluating Interfaces with Users: Quantitative Methods 

User Centered Design and Prototyping 

Part 4: Designing Without the User 

Task-Centered System Design 

High Level Models of Human Behaviour 

Design Principles and Usability Heuristics 

Beyond Screen Design 

Graphical Screen Design 

Part 5: Implementing GUIs 

Windowing Systems and Toolkits 

Part 6: The Future 

Visions of the future 

• 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

• Text description for Baecker, Grudin, Buxton and Greenberg
• Literature Resources: texts, journals, conference proceedings
• Video Resources on HCI
• Bad Interfaces

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

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.