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Interface types
   * 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
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