Intro to Human-Centered CS

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Human-Centered Computing is a field of practice that draws on a combination of computing and social science methods to design computing systems that align with human needs and values. In this course, you will learn how to engage in needs finding to understand the requirements your system must meet to satisfy its users as well as critical and experimental evaluation of existing technologies to identify the ways in which these technologies (fail to) meet user needs. Specifically, you will learn several methods for evaluating the usability and efficacy of computing systems including qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys, usability testing, participatory design & prototyping, A/B testing, and statistical data analysis.