Course syllabus

Welcome Advanced HCI:   2016 Semester 2  

15points

Prerequisites: CompSci 345 or SoftEng 350  

Course coordinator: Beryl Plimmer

Other Lecturers: Craig Sutherland, Robert Amor

Tutor MD Athar Imtiaz

CS Class Rep William Hsu

Course contact hours/timetable

Lectures Tuesday & Wed 2-3, Thurs 12-1  (Labs as selected)

Tutorial Friday 2-3 (not every week) 

Course prescription   

Human aspects of computer systems, relevant to commercial solution development and computer science research. Sample topics: advanced evaluation methods; support of pen and touch-based interaction; trends with domain specific user interface design, such as interfaces for enterprise systems

Assessment: 60% course work,  40% exam, Details

Course outcomes

A student who successfully completes this course will have the opportunity to :

acquire advanced knowledge of topics in human-computer interaction including:

evaluation methods

pen-based computing 

gesture-based interfaces

domain specific HCI, e.g., for architecture and construction

carry out a literature review and project on a specific HCI related topic

acquire skills in critical thinking  academic literacy, and oral presentation

Course outline

A major component of this course the project. In the first couple of weeks you will be given an opportunity to form a team and bid for a project. You will then individually carry out a literature review related to that topic.  The literature review is completed before the break.  

During the first half of the semester, there will be a series of lectures from the teaching team and guest lecturers. Lecture slides will be available on the Modules page. 

The second half of the semester is devoted to projects. Immediately after the break, each group will meet with their supervising lecturer to finalize the scope and deliverables of their project. Each group will present their project to the class (schedule to be advised).  Apart from the presentation, the remainder of the project deliverables are due at the end of teaching.  

You may find some of last year's material useful  https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci705s2c/ This year’s course will be much the same. The main difference will be Jim Warren is replaced by Robert Amor. Robert will be lecturing about gesture-based interfaces and domain specific HCI.  The assessment will be pretty much the same with 60% for a research project and 40% exam.  The research project is part individual and part group - look at the assignments page from last year. We will have a new project list for this year.