LU#01 – Introduction

01-01 (box.fu) | 01-2 (box.fu, gitlab) | 01-3 (box.fu, gitlab)

01-01 | Course Overview

The organizational introduction to the course will take place synchronously on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in the time from 2 to 3 pm.

01-02 | Introducing Human-Computer Interaction

  • Defining the term HCI.
  • The History of HCI.
  • The Three Paradigms of HCI and their characteristics.
  • Why is HCI important for you?

Self-Test

01-03 | Human-Centered System Design

  • What is useful Software?
  • Usability and its quality criteria.
  • Mental model and implementation model.
  • Definition, activities, and aspects of Human-Centered Design (HCD).
  • HCD for Interactive Systems

Self-Test

Additional Material

Explanation about The Three Paradigms of HCI by Luka Schulz on Vimeo:

? Thomas T. Hewett et al. 1992. ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction. Technical Report. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/2594128

? Steve Harrison, Phoebe Sengers, and Deborah Tatar. 2011. Making epistemological trouble: Third-paradigm HCI as successor science. Interact. Comput. 23, 5 (September, 2011), 385–392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2011.03.005

? Brad A. Myers. 1998. A brief history of human-computer interaction technology. interactions 5, 2 (March/April 1998), 44–54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/274430.274436