Human-Computer Interaction and Tangible Interfaces

(4 Credits)

The course covers the fundamental concepts of psychological principles of human-computer interaction, evaluation methods, usability engineering, user-centered design and prototyping, interaction paradigms and models, tangible interfaces that provide physical interaction with digital information. Topics covered include: graphical user interface design and evaluation, multimodal interaction design (touch, gesture, gaze, spatial audio, natural language, etc.), virtual reality, and spatial displays. In addition to lectures, students will work on assignments and a term project to design, implement, and evaluate interactive systems for space applications based on knowledge culled from the covered class material and research.