ITC504 Interface Useability (8)

CSU Discipline Area: Computing (COMPU)

Duration: One session

Abstract:

This subject provides an in-depth study, at an advanced level, of Interface Design and Evaluation. The emphasis is on evaluation and especially useability testing.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations

Session 1
Internal	CSU Study Centre Melbourne
Internal	CSU Study Centre Sydney
Distance	Bathurst
Session 3
Internal	CSU Study Centre Sydney

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: ITC504

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Enrolment restrictions:

Not available to students who have completed subject ITC204

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

- explain the importance for a multidisciplinary approach to interface design, and list the contributions of the various disciplines;
- understand and explain the relevance of integrating aspects of the human, social and organisational context into the design process;
- design a user interface, given specific information about the system requirements;
- list and explain methods for interface evaluation; and
- develop an evaluation strategy to monitor and ensures that the useability goals are met; complete a major useability evaluation of an information system.

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

- Components of human computer interaction - Cognitive framework - perception and representation, attention and memory constraints, knowledge and mental models, metaphors and conceptual models, social and organisational aspects, user level of expertise - Interactive styles and their relevance to context - Principles of interface design for information systems for both stand alone and web based - Designing online support - Evaluation - the relevance and different types of evaluation - Experience in useability testing

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