AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

"The course provides the student with the basis for the design and development of software interfaces between the user and the machine. The student will acquire skills in perceptual, cognitive and emotional mechanisms, development cycle and interfacing methodologies User, development techniques, and methodologies for assessing usability of interfaces". "The course is usually in Italian with teaching materials in English. In the presence of non-Italian students, the course will be in English: in this case the teachers will provide the possibility to provide, on request and in additional hours, Specific teaching support for Italian-language students with difficulties in English".

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Main topics include the following:

1. Interactive real - time systems for audio - visual processing (incl. Exercises with the EyesWebopen software platform).
2. Devices for human - machine interaction.
3. Interaction Design; Theories and techniques for GUI design. User - centered design.
4. Sketches. Storyboarding.
5. Predictive models (GOMS, KLM, Motor theories: Fitts’s Law etc.).
6. Evaluation of GUIs based on experimental psychology methods (T test, ANOVA).
7. Design of visual and auditory displays.
8. Multimodal interaction.
9. Emotional interfaces, models of expressiveness and of communication of non - verbal content.
10. Examples of applications: therapy and rehabilitation; Clutural and artistic applications; audivisual consumer applications; Information appliances. Invisible/Disappearing Computing. Tangible Bits. Ambient Intelligence

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Course slides available on Aulaweb.

-The EyesWeb software platform , available at www.infomus.org

-Preece, Rogers, and Sharp, Interaction Design, Wiley, 2007 2nd Edition,

-Schneiderman, Designing the User Interface, Addison Wesley, 2010.

-J. Raskin, The Humane Interface, ACM Press, 2000.-Cook, Music, Cognition and the Computerized Sound, MIT Press, 2001.

Further readings: will be provided during the course.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANTONIO CAMURRI (President)

RENATO UGO RAFFAELE ZACCARIA (President)

LESSONS

Class schedule

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written exam, followed by oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

After completing this course the students will be able to face the design of interactive multimedia systems and manage the interaction design process.

Exam schedule