Students get the theoretical foundations to efficiently evaluate new developments in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and to transform them into effective, efficient and satisfactory products with a high User Experience (UX). This requires a high level of project management skills too, which often proves to be difficult in HCI projects. Therefore, a special emphasis is put on cross-module work on HCI projects.
By means of excursions and periodic evening events they get basic understanding of association work, concretely the work of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA).
Students learn to write web based applications using differenz concepts:
All solutions will be based on modern frameworks or libraries like AngularJS or Vaadin.
Online problem description, based on a selection of industrial topics. The literature is presented in each semester depending on the exercises.
Supported teamwork in the laboratory. Self study, oral exam and presentation
Script, assignments, and test tools on the intranet, previous exams with solutions.
Literature
Participation at tuition, independent work (lab tests for user modelling and the evaluation of feedback with the help of Fitts' Law; presentation of the results).
Participation at tuition, in class group work and discussion, assignments.
Laboratory work and presentation of results.
Conduct survey, evaluate results, presentation.