User Interface

• Computer user interfaces
  • Menu systems
  • Command languages
  • Forms
  • Natural language
  • Direct manipulation
  • Graphical user interfaces
  • Touchscreen
  • Voice
  • Information display
    • static displays
    • motion displays
    • interactive displays
    • XML considerations
• Telephony interfaces
  • Voice
  • Touch-tone

Human factors

• Cognitive principles
  • Perception
  • Memory
  • Problem solving
• Understanding the user
• Designing for humans
  • Affordances
  • Conceptual models
  • Feedback
  • Constraints
  • Mapping
  • Stages of action
• Ergonomics

Human-centered software evaluation

• Setting goals for evaluation
• Evaluation without users
  • Walkthroughs
  • Keystroke Level Model analysis (KLM)
  • Guidelines
  • Standards
    • International
    • Operating system
    • Accessibility
  • Style guides
  • Heuristics
• Evaluation with users
  • Usability testing
  • Interview
  • Survey
  • Experiment

Human-centered software development

• Approaches, characteristics, and overview of process
• User centered design methods
• Functionality and usability
  • Task analysis
    • Scenarios
    • Use cases
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • Matching interface elements to user requirements
• Specifying interaction and presentation
• Prototyping techniques and tools
  • Paper storyboards
  • Inheritance and dynamic dispatch
  • Prototyping languages and GUI builders
• Understanding the users
  • Profiles
  • Personas
  • Understanding the user experience
• Human interaction styles
• Localization
• Globalization
• Accessibiliy requirements * Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) * Designing for aging population

Graphical user-interface design

• Choosing interaction styles and interaction techniques
• HCI aspects of common widgets
• HCI aspects of screen design: layout, color, fonts, labeling
  • Layout
  • Color
  • Fonts
  • Labeling
  • Consistency
• Handling human failure
• Beyond simple screen design
  • Visualization
  • Representation
  • Metaphor
  • Anchoring
• Multi-modal interaction
  • Graphics
  • Sound
  • Auditory feedback
  • Haptics
• 3D interaction and virtual reality; artificial and augmented realities

Graphical user-interface programming

• User Interface Management Systems (UIMS)
• Dialogue independence and level of analysis
• Seeheim model
• Widget classes
• Event management and user interaction
• Geometry management
• GUI builders and UI programming environments
• Cross-platform design

HCI aspects of multimedia systems

• Categorization and architectures of information: hierarchies, hypermedia
• Information retrieval and human performance
  • Web search
  • Usability of database query languages
  • Graphics
  • Sound
    • Methodologies and techniques
    • Modeling
    • Signal analysis, synthesis, and processing
• HCI design of multimedia information systems
  • Animations
  • Hypertext
    • Hypertext architectures
    • Hypertext navigation and maps
  • Audio
  • Video
• Speech recognition and natural language processing
• Information appliances and mobile computing???

HCI aspects of collaboration and communication

• Groupware to support specialized tasks
  • Document preparation
  • Multi-player games
  • Computer-supported collaborative work
• Asynchronous group communication
  • E-mail
  • Bulletin boards
• Synchronous group communication
  • Chat rooms
  • Conferencing
• Online communities: MUDs/MOOs
• Software characters and intelligent agents

Interface technologies

• Graphics output devices and their properties
• Graphics primitives and their properties
• Graphics software systems; general graphics standards
• Architecture of window managers and user interfaces
• Architecture of toolboxes and programming support environments
• Representation of graphic data and sound