COSC 4441/5351.03A Human-Computer Interaction

Fall 2004

WWW page: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/course/4441

Time, Location

MW 11:30-13:00, CC208

Instructor

Scott MacKenzie

Office

CSE 3045

Office Hours

MW 10:30-11:30 CSE 3045

 

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General Information

This course introduces students to the fundamentals, the theory, and the practice of Human-Computer Interaction. The design process, different interaction paradigms, user models, task analysis, dialog notation, interaction models, and the evaluation of user interfaces, are discussed. Furthermore, alternative input technologies (such as speech recognition and tablet computing), groupware, mobile and ubiquitous computing, as well as Virtual Reality user interfaces, are presented. The topics of this course are applied in practical assignments.

Undergraduate students must meet general 4th year prerequisites. COSC3461 is required. Degree Credit Exclusion: COSC4341.

Required Textbook

Evaluation

Item

Percent of final grade

Due date

Assignment 1

7%

Oct 9

Assignment 2

8%

Nov 5

Project

20%

Dec 6

Midterm

25%

Oct 20, in class

Final

40%

Fri, Dec 10, 2:00 p.m., CB 129

Assignments and projects are due at 10:00am (!) on the specified day and are to be submitted electronically with the 'submit' command in Prism (unless specified otherwise). The drop date is Nov. 12, 2004. Numerical scores (out of 100) are used to calculate grades. Grades can be viewed via the following command in Prism:  courseInfo 4441 2004-05 F.

Course Policies

Late assignments or projects will not be accepted, unless prior arrangement has been made with the instructor. Missed midterms are handled in the same way. Note that exceptions to the late policy will be made only in serious cases and if the circumstances are documented and beyond your control. Please see the Departmental WWW page on Academic Policies for details regarding academic dishonesty, etc.