User-Centred Design & Evaluation

Overview

User-Centred Design & Evaluation provides a comprehensive understanding of the design of interactive multimedia, with particular emphasis on accessible, ubiquitous, engaging and immersive interfaces. Students will examine a range of interactive interfaces and develop methodologies and practices for their evaluation through research and practical study. After completing this unit of study students are expected to have a theoretical and critical knowledge of the principles of interaction and associated heuristics. This subject is also designed to develop generic skills that are applicable to a broad range of disciplines and contexts.

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Reflect on the relationship between technology, society, culture and history
2. Formulate arguments concerning the relationship between technology and civilization
3. Integrate and apply knowledge from specific fields and disciplines such as media ecology, aesthetics, software heuristics, user-centred design and phenomenology in the evaluation of technical objects

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Interactive interface design techniques
• Human factors in interaction design
• Interaction design for different platforms and applications
• Cognition and mental models in interaction design
• Evaluating game interactivity