HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

COMPSCI 570

User-centered software design: (1) principles of and methods for understanding user needs; designing and prototyping interface solutions; and evaluating their usability, (2) their applications in designing multiple types of interfaces through group projects.

COMPSCI/LIS 611

Introduction to the user experience design including key stages of the design process, design ethics, and the methods and tools involved at each stage of design. Conduct formative research on clients, users, use contexts and tasks. Gain experience with user research methodologies and learn to create intermediate design tools such as personas. Develop and present a design proposal for a chosen project.

ISYE/PSYCH 859

COMPSCI 571

Introduces software development of user interfaces (UIs).  Build competence in implementing UIs using state-of-the-art (1) UI paradigms, such as event-driven interfaces, direct-manipulation interfaces, and dialogue-based interaction; (2) methods for capturing, interpreting, and responding to different forms of user input and states, including pointing, text entry, speech, touch, gestures, user activity, context, and physiological states; and (3) platform-specific UI development APIs, frameworks, and toolkits for multiple platforms including web/mobile/desktop interfaces, natural user interfaces, and voice user interfaces. Learn about the fundamental concepts, technologies, algorithms, and methods in building user interfaces, implement UIs using of state-of-the-art UI development tools, and build a UI development portfolio.

PSYCH 750

Foundations in programming fundamentals, emphasizing tools and techniques as utilized in human behavioral data science.