Who should attend?
This course is for working professionals who want
to do interaction design, information architecture or usability evaluation.
This course is for you if you are:
- A software professional with experience in user interface design,
but no formal training
- A quality professional in the IT industry, who would like to learn
about usability
- A design professional with experience in another design field and
now want to move to interaction design
- A product manager responsible for the delivery of software products
- An account executive responsible for client interaction in the IT
industry
- A faculty member* in an engineering college who
would like to teach a course on HCI.
A limited number of faculty members will be funded through QIP.
Goals
- To get an exposure to issues, principles and concerns underlying
human interaction with interactive products
- To practice the process and the techniques for user studies, interaction
design and usability evaluation
After attending the course, participants should be able to undertake
design of interactive products. Those who are already involved in interaction
design should be able to improve quality and usability of the products
they develop, and will understand the theory behind what they do. Those
responsible for the software development process will be able to make
the process in their organizations more user-centered.
For contents, fees and schedule,
scroll down. To see a list of past participants, click here.
While there are many guest lectures planned, a large
part of the course will be conducted by Prof.
Anirudha Joshi.
The names of other speakers will be announced later.
To attend, send an email to anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.
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Day I - User Studies
Users first.
We start with understanding user needs by learning the technique of
contextual interview (CI). We also spend some time to initiate and
understand the project we will be doing. |
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Day II- Analysis
Next, we learn how to analyze interviews and document findings in the form of
insights, design ideas and work models. We compare the contextual
interview with other techniques such as focus
groups and rapid assessment process and apply them in more interviews. |
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Day
III, IV - Consolidation and Product definition
We learn to consolidate findings across users by techniques such as
affinity diagrams and personas. Groups finish off about five interviews
each, analyze them and document the requirements in the form of a product
definition. We end Day IV with our first round of group presentations. |
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Day V and VI - Break
Catch up on office work, homework, shopping,
a trek on the hill, or just relax... |
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Day
VII, VIII, IX- Design
Now the fun begins - we get into design. We start with
understanding the different layers of user experience of an interactive
product, followed by relevant concepts in cognitive psychology, the
design
process, goals and heuristics, applying what we learn in projects. By
end of Day IX, we should have designed our first cut prototypes
and detailed them to the extent possible. |
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Day
X and XI - Evaluation and Integration with SE
On day X and XI we try our hand at some usability evaluation techniques.
We then look at ways of integrating
the HCI design process in software engineering processes.
We wrap up the project with a presentation by each group and carry home
our lessons learnt. |
Guest Lectures / Case Studies / Activities
We end each day with a guest lecture, a case study or an activity. Guest lecture topics are
still being decided, but could be on-screen typography, information visualization,
animation in interactive products, patterns in interaction
design, information architecture, emotional design,
accessibility, plus a few case studies.
Course contents are tentative as of now. They will be fine-tuned in
due course.
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Working professionals |
Faculty members
* |
Register before |
Full Course (Day I-XI) |
Early
(closed) |
Rs.
20,000 |
Rs.
1,000 * |
May
31,
2007 |
Late (closed) |
Rs.
24,000 |
Rs.
1,000 * |
June 15, 2007 |
Walk-in
(closed) |
Rs.
28,000 |
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July
2,
2007 |
Part Course |
User studies through contextual inquiry
(Day I-IV) (closed) |
Rs. 14,000 |
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July 2, 2007 |
HCI design and evaluation (Day VII-XI) (closed) |
Rs. 17,500 |
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July 2, 2007 |
Updated on June 4, 2007: The
course is full and the registration is now closed. In case you would like
to attend a similar course in future, kindly send an email to anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in. For working professionals, fees include participant
material, lunch and refreshments during the course.
Accommodation is not included, but is available to limited number of people
in the IIT Bombay guesthouse (costs approximately Rs. 300 per day, shared,
inclusive of meals).
To register, please send a demand draft
in favor of "Registrar IIT Bombay, CEP account" to: Anirudha
Joshi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400 076. Please
note that TDS need not be deducted towards payments made to IIT Bombay.
If you require guest house accommodation, do mention this along with
the registration, (but do not send the accomodation cost - you can pay
these when you check out).
* The participation of selected faculty
members from AICTE-recognized engineering degree colleges will be funded
through QIP. They will
also be
paid to-and-fro sleeper class train fare and DA as per rules and will
be provided accomodation for free. These
participants
need to register before June 15, 2007. They will have to pay an earnest
money deposit of Rs. 1,000 at the time of registration, which will be
refunded to participants who attend.
If you
need
more information please contact anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.
Day I
Tue, Jul 3 |
Day II
Wed, Jul 4 |
Day III
Thu, Jul 5 |
Day IV
Fri, Jul 6 |
Day
V
Sat |
Day
VI
Sun |
Introductions |
Work models |
Affinity, model consolidation |
Affinity, model consolidation, personas |
Free |
Free |
Contextual interview |
Interpretation session |
Personas |
CI Practice |
Other user studies techniques |
Interpretation
session 2 |
Analysis and
tips |
Interpretation
session 1 |
Interview 3 / 4
/ 5 |
Preparing a
design brief |
Planning,
defining project focus |
Sharing,
redefining focus |
Interpretation session 3, 4, 5 |
Presentation I |
Interview 1
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Interview 2 |
TBD |
Day
VII
Mon, Jul 9 |
Day VIII
Tue, Jul 10 |
Day
IX
Wed, Jul 11 |
Day
X
Thu, Jul 12 |
Day
XI
Fri, Jul 13 |
Layers of user experience |
User models |
HCI heuristics |
Usability
evaluation |
Integrating HCI and SE processes |
Conceptual models |
Goals of HCI
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Usability
evaluation |
Human memory, human errors |
Scenarios |
Information design |
Usability evaluation |
Design process |
Defining product
goals |
Wire-frames |
Usability
evaluation |
Presentation II |
Review of design
brief |
Scenarios and
conceptual model |
Prototypes |
Lessons learnt |
TBD
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TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
Wrap up |
The contents and the schedule are tentative and subject to change. |