Monsoon Course on HCI

   
A nine-day CEP course on human-computer interaction design will be held in the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay from June 29 to July 8, 2005. This course will be an introduction to the fields of user studies, human-computer interaction design and usability evaluation principles and techniques.

Time: 9.00 am to 5 pm | Venue: IDC Auditorium | Directions to IDC

Who should attend?

This course is for working professionals in the IT industry who want to do interaction design, information architecture or usability evaluation.

This course is for you if you are:

  • A software professional with experience in user interface design, but no formal training
  • A quality professional, who would like to learn about usability
  • A design professional with experience in another design field and now want to move to interaction design
  • A product manager responsible for the delivery of software products
  • An account executive responsible for client interaction.

Goals

  • To give practice in process and techniques for user studies, interaction design and usability evaluation
  • To provide an exposure to issues and principles underlying human interaction with computers.

After attending the course, participants should be able to undertake design of interactive products. Those who are already involved in interaction design should be able to improve quality and usability of the products they develop, and will understand the theory behind what they do. Those responsible for the software development process will be able to make the process in their organizations more user-centered.

For contents, fees and schedule, scroll down. To see a list of past participants, click here.

To attend, send an email to anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.

Contents

     
Interviews   Day I - User Studies
Users first. We start with understanding user needs by learning the technique of contextual interview (CI). We also spend some time to initiate and understand the project we will be doing.
     

Day II- Analysis
Next, we learn how to analyze interviews and document findings in the form of insights, design ideas and work models. We compare the contextual interview with other techniques such as focus groups and rapid assessment process and apply them in more interviews.

  

Analysis
     
Consolidation   Day III, IV - Consolidation
We learn to consolidate findings across users by techniques such as affinity diagrams and personas. Groups finish off about five interviews each, analyze them and document the requirements in the form of a design brief. We end Day IV with our first round of group presentations.
     
Day V - Break
Catch up on office work, homework, shopping, a monsoon trek on the hill, or just relax...
     
Day VI, VII, VIII - Design
Now the fun begins - we get into design. We start with understanding the different layers of user experience of an interactive product, followed by relevant concepts in cognitive psychology, the design process, goals and heuristics, applying what we learn in projects. By end of Day VIII, we should have designed a first cut prototype.		   Design
     
Evaluation  Day IX and X - Evaluation
Day IX starts with an introduction to usability evaluation. We try our hand at heuristic evaluation to find problems in what we designed. We do a round of improvements, make a prototype and put them through user tests. We wrap up the project with a presentation by each group and carry home our lessons learnt.

Guest Lectures / Case Studies / Activities
We end each day with a guest lecture, a case study or an activity. Guest lecture topics are still being decided, but could be on-screen typography, information visualization, animation in interactive products, patterns in interaction design, information architecture, emotional design, accessibility, plus a few case studies.

Fees

 
 

Working professionals

Faculty / students

Register before
Full Course (Day I-X)
Early (closed) Rs. 12,000 Rs. 9,000 May 19, 2005
Late (closed) Rs. 15,000 Rs. 9,000 June 8, 2005
Walk-in Rs. 18,000 Rs. 10,000 June 29, 2005
Part Course
User studies through contextual inquiry
(Day I-IV)		 Rs. 8,000 Rs. 4,500 June 29, 2005
HCI design and evaluation (Day VI-X) Rs. 10,000 Rs. 5,500 June 29, 2005

Fees include participant material, lunch and refreshments during the course. Accommodation is not included, but is available to limited number of people in the IIT Bombay guesthouse.
(Updated May 30, 2005) Sorry, but our guest house is full now. We can still get you campus accommodation in a student hostel. Else, we can help you locate a hotel room.

To participate, please send a cheque / demand draft in favor of ‘Registrar IIT Bombay, CEP account’ to: Anirudha Joshi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400 076. Please note that TDS need not be deducted towards payments made to IIT Bombay. If you need more information please contact anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.

Schedule

Day I
Wed, June 29		 Day II
Thu, June 30		 Day III
Fri, July 1		 Day IV
Sat, July 2		 Day V
Sun, July 3
Introductions Work models Affinity, model consolidation Affinity, model consolidation, personas Free day
Contextual interview Interpretation session Personas
CI Practice Other user studies techniques Interpretation session 2
Analysis and tips Interpretation session 1 Interview 3 / 4 / 5 Preparing a design brief
Planning, defining project focus Sharing, redefining focus Interpretation session 3, 4, 5 Presentation I
Interview 1
 		 Interview 2 TBD
Day VI
Mon, July 4		 Day VII
Tue, July 5		 Day VIII
Wed, July 6		 Day IX
Thu, July 7		 Day X
Fri, July 8
Layers of user experience User models HCI heuristics Usability evaluation HCI in software development
Conceptual models Goals of HCI
 		 Heuristic evaluation User tests
Human memory, human errors Scenarios
Design process Defining product goals Wire-frames Improvements Presentation II
Review of design brief Scenarios and conceptual model Prototypes Lessons learnt
Inverted Pyramids
 		 Usage Centered Design, Gita Sethi, Patni Animation in Interactive Media, Prof. Shilpa Ranade Hitchhiker's Guide to Information Graphics, Prof. GV Sreekumar Wrap up

 
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