General description
This course explains the basic concepts and principles of human-machine interaction, focusing on the computer as an interactive machine and on information systems as a interface between human and computer. The course focuses on how to design useful interactive interfaces.
Cognitive psychology is one of the sources of information that informs us in this design, and presents tools for designing interactive interfaces: task analysis, definition of user patterns, and determination of quality and design standards. The course also reviews the mechanisms of evaluating the interactive interfaces in terms of adapting to the task for which they are designed, and presents a set of internationally adopted standards in this regard.
The desired learning outcomes: At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Perform a task analysis to collect the necessary information for the design of the interactive interfaces of an information system.
- Following a methodology and principles for designing useful interactive interfaces with a good level of usability.
- Evaluate the compatibility of interactive interfaces and identify existing problems and propose solutions.
- Taking advantage of some data of cognitive psychology in the field of interaction between human and computer: the potential of human memory, the mechanism of the functioning of the cognitive system in general, the similarity between human processing of information and computer processing, ...