Lectures and courses (summer term 2010)
User Interface Engineering (UIE)
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Dachselt, Dipl.-Ing. Sophie Stellmach, Dipl.-Ing. Jens Heydekorn
Courses every Monday, 09:00-11:00 hrsLectures every Thursday 09:00-11:00 hrs
Room G29-335
4 semester hours/week, ECTS credits: 6
Lecture in EnglishThe lecture with accompanying courses is intended as an advanced HCI modul and builds on prior basic HCI lectures, such as "Interactive Systems". Effective user interfaces in combination with an appealing user experience are central requirements for designing interactive products of the future, since they become increasingly virtual and will provide similar functionality. Even the development of Natural User Interfaces (NUI) of the next generation requires a highly structured development process. Classical Software & Usability Engineering processes will fall short in this area. The lecture shows and explains modern development processes designed for these special requirements (focusing on Scenario-Based Design and User Experience Design) starting from the user-centered analysis phase to the final systematic product evaluation. Besides the structured and engineering-oriented approach, the main focus of this course is on the creative design phases, including sketches and early prototypes. Parallel to the lectures, students will form teams for a semester-spanning project, in which the User Interface Engineering process is trained with all phases while developing an interesting NUI.
Contents
- Basics of user interfaces (UI): historical development, interface types, design principles and usability guidelines
- Basic tasks and components of UI engineering
- Communication of objectives, methods and concepts for the typical development phases analysis, design, prototypical development, testing, evaluation (user studies)
- Comparison of selected development methodologies: usability engineering, user-centered design, scenario-based design, user experience and more
- Integration of UI development processes in modern software development processes
Schedule
| Datum | Mondays (E) | Date | Thursdays (L) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/29/2010 | No Exercise | 04/01/2010 | Introduction and Overview |
| 04/05/2010 | Easter Monday | 04/08/2010 | History of User Interfaces |
| 04/12/2010 | Course Introduction | 04/15/2010 | No Lecture |
| 04/19/2010 | Team Finalization and Introduction to the Analysis Phase | 04/22/2010 | From Software to Usability Engineering |
| 04/26/2010 |
Additional Lecture: Requirements Analysis |
04/29/2010 | Sketching & Prototyping I |
| 05/03/2010 | Consultation | 05/06/2010 | Sketching & Prototyping II |
| 05/10/2010 |
Presentation: Results from the Analysis Phase |
05/13/2010 | Ascension Day |
| 05/17/2010 | Design Phase: Activities | 05/20/2010 | Consultation |
| 05/24/2010 | Whit Monday | 05/27/2010 | Design Phase: Information Design I |
| 05/31/2010 | Consultation | 06/03/2010 | Design Phase: Information Design II |
| 06/07/2010 | Consultation | 06/10/2010 | Design Phase: Interaction Design |
| 06/14/2010 |
Presentation: Results of Design Phase |
06/17/2010 | Design Phase: Interaction Design II |
| 06/21/2010 | Consultation | 06/24/2010 | Usability Evaluation I |
| 06/28/2010 | Final Presentations | 07/01/2010 | Usability Evaluation II |
Best Project Award
The most successfull project was elected by all course members within the final presentation of the course project:
Wolfgang Büschel, Michael Kästner, Matthias Wolff: Multi-Touch Video Editing
Kathrin Scheil, Sarah Heidelbach, Timo Oster, Vladimir Tarasenko: Image Editing with Multi-Touch Gestures- Kristina Wunderlich, Franziska Zeiler, Stephan Plänitz: 3D Gestures for Touristic Time Management
Literature
- Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll: Usability Engineering – Scenario-based Development of Human-Computer Interaction. Academic Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55860-712-9.
- Bill Buxton: Sketching User Experiences - Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 0123740371, 2007.
- Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers, Jenny Preece, Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, Wiley, 2nd Edition, ISBN 04700186662007, 2007. http://www.id-book.com/
- Further literature hints are given during the lecture.
Documents
You can download additional documents here (restricted access).