SOFT6002 WEEK 12

Seven students turned up and worked on their group assignment.

SOFT6002 Week 11

Students worked on the assignments.

SOFT6002 Week 10

Students got into their groups and worked on the heuristic analysis.

SOFT6002 Week 09

We had an in-class exam.

Some students stayed afterwards to discuss the assignments, but most left as soon as they could.

I advised students not to leave before organising groups for the assignments. If anyone is groupless please e-mail me and I will try to do some match-making.

SOFT6002 Week 08

No details. Sorry

SOFT6002 HCI Week 07

We looked at requirements gathering and prototyping.

We went to the lab and students worked on a paper prototype for an app that lets the user design a birthday card and have it sent in the post.

We looked at how to use pencil for higher fidelity prototypes.

SOFT6002 HCI Week 06

We looked at attention [2016-HCI-W04-L2 Human Attention.pptx], memory [2016-HCI-W05-L1 Human Memory.pptx], mental models [2016-HCI-W06-L1 Mental Models.pptx], and metaphors [2016-HCI-W06-L2 Metaphor.pptx].

My voice started to fade after two hours of non-stop talking.Since we didn't have anything particular to do in the lab I let the students do.

SOFT6002 HCI Week 05

We got through three lecture hours. That's a long time to be sat listening to me. Thanks for your attention and your patience.

Slides:
2016-HCI-W02-L2-Human Factors
2016-HCI-W03-L1-Gestalt
2016-HCI-W03-L2-Ecological
2016-HCI-W04-L1-Graphical Coding

SOFT6002 HCI Week 03

I talked for about two hours and then I had to stop.

We looked at a Windows 95 video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

We got as far as text. next up sound.

We moved to a lab and students worked on the hueristics exercise.

SOFT6002 HCI Week 02

We  looked at the first 5 heuristics we will use to evaluate interfaces.

I explained how checksums can be used to validate user input and we looked at some interesting examples from around the world.

Three lecture's worth non-stop was a lot o sit through. I appreciate your attention. Thanks for that.

SOFT6002 Intro to HCI

Welcome

SOFT6002 Week 12

We had an in-class exam

SOFT6002 Week 11

Students worked on the final part of the assignment that's due tomorrow.

SOFT6002 Week 10

Only 1 student came to class. We discussed his assignment.

SOFT6002 Week 09

We looked at tips information architecture  for websites from the book "Don't make me think". Afterwards we went to the lab and I met with students to discuss their assignment.

SOFT6002 Week 08

We had a guest speaker from Univ. de Oviedo who spoke about different aspects of usability and UI.

We looked at Technology (W08-L1), Task Analysis (W08-L2), and Cognitive Walk Throughs (W09).

We spent a good half hour talking about the assessment and the exam.

Part 3 of the assignment is due at noon on Fri 24 April.  Part 4 is due at noon on Fri 01 May.

The in-class exam will be on Thursday 07 May. We will start at 1815.

SOFT6002 Week 07

We looked at Metaphors (Slides W06-L2), Requirements Gathering (W08-L1) and Prototyping (W08-L2).

SOFT6002 Week 06

There was one student in class. I had a look at a draft of his assignment submission.

SOFT6002 Change Blindness

This site illustrates the issue of change blindness very well.

http://www.gocognitive.net/demo/change-blindness

What lessons can we draw from this?

SOFT6002 Week 04

We looked at Human Memory (slides: W05-L1) and Mental Models (W06-L1)

After coffee we went to the lab and examined three websites for usability issues.