Class Human-Machine Interaction

The overall objective is to highlight the importance of features such as accessibility and usability in design for interactive digital media.

1.         Informal assessment of websites in order to motivate students to study the issues of accessibility and usability of interactive digital media

a.         Introduction informal procedures, metrics and tools to measure the usability of websites

b.         Gauging the usability of websites

c.         Interpretation of results and making informal recommendations

2.         Accessibility

a.         Accessibility in Europe

b.         Accessibility in the World

c.         Fundamental concepts of the interactive digital media accessible

3.         Usability

a.         fundamental concepts

b.         Standards of the consequences

4.         Accessibility and usability in design processes for interactive digital media

a.         Processes in user centered design

b.         Other design processes

5.         Formal evaluation of web sites

The course follows an active and project-based learning pattern. Expository moments are rare. There is plenty of autonomous work and a lot of peer critique.

Tullis (2008) Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analysing, and Presenting Usability Metrics, Morgan Kaufman