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Courses » Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

ABOUT THE COURSE

Why are things so hard to use these days? Why doesn’t this thing I just bought work? Why is this web site so hard to use? Why is the phone app so confusing? Why do users not like my design? Why is my app not getting popular? These are frustrations that we have all faced from systems not designed with people in mind. The question this course will focus on is: how can we design human-centered systems that people find useful and usable? This course is an introduction to designing, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. If you can take only one course in Human-ComputerInteraction, this is the course for you.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

• BE/ME/MS/PhD in Computer Science,
• M.Tech. in Computer Science, 
• BSc / Arts or Science Major too can take it.

PRE-REQUISITES:

Interest in interfaces, curiosity in fixing interface issues

INDUSTRY SUPPORT:

Any company which is interested in HCI will be interested in recruiting the students finishing the course.



3589 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR 



Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK") Associate Professor, is currently the Hemant Bharat Ram Faculty Research Fellow at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, India. PK is the Founding Head of Cybersecurity Education and Research Centre (CERC). PK is one of ACM India Eminent Speakers. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research interests include Privacy, e-Crime, Online Social Media, and Usable Security, in particular, these days he has been dabbling with complex networked systems (e.g. social web systems like Twitter, Facebook, and telephone logs). Government of India has been funding PK for the last 6 years for studying Online Social Media, he manages research projects of about 2 Crores INR. PK has received research funds from Government of India, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, industry bodies in India, and International funding agencies. He is part of multiple advising roles in the Government of India on the topic of Online Social Media. He frequently speaks about Privacy and Security in Online Media at various Government of India organisations, private industry. He helped create one of the first conference focussed online on Online Social Networks, Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN) cosn.acm.org. He is serving as a PC member in prestigious conferences like WWW, AsiaCCS, and ICWSM and he is also serving as a reviewer for International Journal of Information Security and ACM's Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). PK’s Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at Carnegie Mellon University has contributed in creating an award winning start-up Wombat Security Technologies wombatsecurity.com. PK founded and manages PreCog, precog.iiitd.edu.in a research group at IIIT-Delhi focused on Online Social Media. 
PK has taught this course at IIIT Delhi, and at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. PK can be reached at pk@iiitd.ac.in.
For details see: http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/ACM-India-Eminent-Speaker.html#bio

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Components of HCI Types of interfaces Design process
Week 2: Contextual inquiry Importance of users / talking to users Task analysis 
Week 3: Sketching Low & hi fidelity prototyping
Week 4: Mental models
Week 5: Usability evaluation   Think aloud, observing users Modelling users, expert evaluations
Week 6: Information visualization
Week 7: HCI & mobility New faces of HCI
Week 8: Refresher for all modules seen in the course.

CERTIFICATION EXAM:

  • The exam is optional for a fee. 
  • Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) : Afternoon session: 2 pm to 5 pm
  • Exam for this course will be available in one session on both 28 and 29 April. 
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:

  • Final Score will be calculated as 25% of assignment score + 75% of exam score
  • 25% of assignment score is calculated as average of best 6 out of 8 assignments.
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT DELHI .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.