Course Goals: The course surveys human-computer interaction concepts, theory, and practice, focussing on its interdisciplinary nature. We examine human needs and capabilities as well as technological opportunities in the design of interactive systems. We also devote significant time to the process of designing user interfaces, both from the perspective of design activities and the evaluation of user interface designs. These design and evaluation concepts are practiced using group projects.

Prerequisites: CS 2604. Because of the heavy enrollment pressure in Computer Science classes, prerequisites are being enforced for all CS majors.

Instructor: Jacob P. Somervell, Computer Science, McBryde 104, jsomerve@vt.edu, Office hours: 8:00 am - 9:00 am M-F and by appointment.

GTA: Pardha Pyla<ppyla@vt.edu>

Class meeting time and place: In Summer II 2003, this course meets Monday - Friday, 11:00-12:15 in McBryde 230.

Course Web site: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3724/summer2-03somervell/

Required Text: Rosson, M.B. & Carroll, J.M. 2002. Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Students are also responsible for any lecture, discussion, and class activity material.