HCI Week 1_Introduction

18-19学年春夏学期选修了计院万华根老师的人机交互技术课程，老师由于知识产权相关原因不能提供课件，故尽可能对课程内容做详尽的课堂笔记以供复习，如有不妥立即删除。

Syllabus

• Introduction
• Design principles & usability principles
• Conceptualizing interaction
• Identifying needs and establishing requirements
• Prototyping
• Interaction design models
• Evaluation
• Paper reading & Project demo

Related Courses

• 虚拟现实与数字娱乐
• 游戏程序设计
• 计算机图形
• 计算机动画
• 计算机视觉
• 数字视音频处理

Textbook & Referenes

• Steven Heim, The resonant Interface: HCI foundations for interaction design （李学庆等译， 和谐界面， 电子工业出版社， 2008）
• Jennifer Preece et al., Interaction design: beyond human-computer interaction design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.
• Joseph J. LaViola, et al., 3D User Interfaces, 2017
• Alan Dix, et al. Human Computer Interaction （蔡利栋等译，人机交互（第三版），电子工业出版社，2006）

HCI

• What is it?

  • from MMI to HCI

• What happens when a human and a computer get together to perform a task

  • task: write document, calculate budget, solve equation, drive home, …

Why is this important?

• Computers (in one way or another) now affect every person in society

• Product success may depend on ease of use, not necessarily power

  算力已经没有那么重要

Central topic

• Interaction design

  • Not just a software interface on a desktop monitor!

    Designing interactive products to support people in their everyday and working lives.

    ——Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp

Goals of Interaction Design

• Allow users to carry out tasks

  • Safely

  • Effectively

    Having an intended or expected effect.

  • Efficiently

    • Acting directly to produce an effect
    • Acting or producing effectively with a minimum of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort.

  • Enjoyably

Two Crucial Errors

• Assume all users are alike

  假设所有的用户一样

• Assume all users are like the designer

  假设所有的用户与设计者一样

Improving Interfaces

Know the User!

• Physical abilities
• Cognitive abilities *
• Skill differences
• Cultural diversity **
• Personality differences
• Motivation
• Special needs

Aims of the course

• Consciousness raising

• Design Critic

• HCI foundations

• Useless Design

• Bad Designs

  • Things that don't work the way you expect
  • Things that get in your way
  • Controls that have unexpected functions

Discussions: Good design or bad design

Map of HCI