COAP:COAP-2170
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Introduction
The course-level outcomes as announced in the syllabus are:
- Understand the concept of human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Understand the need for usable and accessible web interfaces.
- Understand usability guidelines.
- Discuss various types of disabilities and their impact on computer usage.
- Describe a variety of computer assistive technologies.
- Understand a variety of methods used to make web content accessible.
- Understand the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Implement usability and accessibility testing for web pages/sites.
- Successfully implement usable web page(s) that are also accessible.
Practical learning outcomes:
- Be able to define user experience in terms of usefulness, usability, accessibility and desirabilty
- Understand the design process and be able to participate in all stages.
- Be able to apply experience, interface, usability, and access guidelines
- Be able to use some design and usability methods
Fields covered (somewhat)
- User experience and user experience design (UX and UxD). Today often used as umbrella term that covers most everything.
- User interaction and user interface design (Interaction Design = IX, Interaction Design=IxD, User Interface =UI)
- Ergonomics (also called "human factors") and Cognitive ergonomics
- Human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Usability and Web usability
- Information architecture (IA)
- Design science
- Web accessibility
Important teaching materials
- Usability.gov guidelines (the whole book, you can download either the whole book or individual chapters). A short summary is in Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
(more later)
In the meantime, see:
- Interaction design, user experience and usability
- Design and usability methods and techniques
- COAP-2100/Web design (beginner's overview items and readings)