WEBSITE	http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~khai/classes/csc428-csc2514-fall2009/
LECTURES	Mondays, 6 - 8 PM, BA1230
TUTORIALS	Mondays, 8PM, BA1230, BA3008
TEXTBOOK OPTIONAL	Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd Edition (DFAB) by Dix, Finlay, Abowd & Beale
INSTRUCTOR	Khai Truong, khai@cs.toronto.edu Office hour: Wednedays, 3 - 4 PM, BA 5262 (or by appointment) Prefix all emails with [428/2514] in subject line & make sure you include your full name on the message, as it is sometimes difficult to decipher student mail addresses.
TAs	David Dearman, dearman@dgp.toronto.edu Koji Yatani, koji@cs.toronto.edu

Understanding human behaviour as it applies to user interfaces: work activity analysis, observational techniques, questionnaire administration and unobtrusive measures. Operating parameters of the human cognitive system, task analysis and cognitive modelling techniques and their application to designing interfaces. Interface representations and prototyping tools. Cognitive walkthroughs, usability studies and verbal protocol analysis. Case studies of specific user interfaces.

For graduate students, this course is an introduction to Human-Computer Interaction and lays a foundation for doing HCI research. For undergraduate students, this is the department's second course in Human Computer Interaction. It builds on the department's first course in HCI, CSC318, and what students learned there about interface design through task analysis, usability testing and iterative design. While the focus in 318 was largely on the design process, this second course will focus more on the underlying models of human-computer interaction, rigorous evaluation, and research frontiers.

Topics to be discusses include, but are not limited to:

1. Models of HCI from the human and device perspectives
2. Evaluation methodologies
3. Experimental Design
4. Analysis techniques
5. State-of-the-art and future user interfaces
6. Research directions