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Human-Computer Interaction II: Cognition, Context & Culture
Course
en
English
30 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- The role of mental models in guiding human interaction with user interfaces.
- The role of representations in informing the development of accurate mental models.
- The sorts of errors, slips, and mistakes humans are prone to and how to address them.
- Learned helplessness, and how to avoid it.
- Methods for decomposing human interaction into manipulable chunks.
- GOMS models for articulating user interaction with a system.
- Hierarchical task analysis for understanding assumptions about human knowledge and ability.
- Distributed cognition for designing larger systems comprised of humans and interfaces.
- Situated action for investigating and anticipating human behavior in context.
- An understanding of how society affects the designs we create.
- A view of how design can be used to address societal problems.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
David Joyner
Senior Research Associate at the College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Techology
Editor
The Georgia Institute of Technology
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