Who should attend?

The course is an exposure to user studies, interaction design, usability evaluation and user experience metrics for working professionals. This course is for you if you are:

• A user interface designer with little formal exposure to design
• A design professional with experience in another design field and now want to move to interaction design
• 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 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.

Goals

• To get an exposure to issues, theories, principles and concerns relating to 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 conceptualise, design and evaluate interactive products systematically. Those who are already involved in these activities should be able to improve the quality of their work, 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, schedule and fees, scroll down. 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 see a list of past participants, click here.

Contents

		Interviewing users Users first. We start with understanding user needs by learning the technique of contextual interview. We also spend some time to initiate and understand the project we will be doing.

		Consolidation We learn to consolidate findings across users by techniques such as affinity diagrams and personas. Groups finish off about ten interviews each, analyze them and identify the user needs, goals, problems and constraints as well as new design opportunities. We end this stage of the course with a round of presentations by each group.

Design, HCI basics, product definitions Now the fun begins - we get into design, continuing to apply what we learn in projects. We start with understanding some basic concepts related to HCI - layers of user experience, conceptual models, user modelling techniques, design process, product goals and scenarios. Each group continues to do its project work in paralllel. Groups conceptualise a solution in the form of a product definition, take a look at design of detailed interfaces, information and voice user interfaces. Within a short span, most groups design detailed prototypes and present their ideas to their peers.

Evaluation, UX metrics, integration with software engineering Towards the end of the course, we look at evaluating interactive products. We look at principles, heuristics of interaction and interface design and touch upon patterns, guidelines and standards. This we follow up with an exposure to several usability evaluation techniques and user experience metrics, some of which groups apply in their projects to evaluate the new prototypes. We also look at ways of integrating the design process in software engineering. We wrap up the course with a final presentation by each group.

Guest Lectures / Case Studies / Activities
On some of the days, we will have a guest lecture, a case study or an activity. Guest lecture topics are still being decided, but could be on-screen typography, information visualisation, animation in interactive products, patterns in interaction design, information architecture, emotional design, interaction design for Indian needs, accessibility etc.

Course contents are tentative and will be fine-tuned subsequently.

Schedule

The contents and the schedule are tentative and subject to change.

Fees
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	Industry professionals	Faculty members	Register before
Early	44,000 (closed)	22,000 (closed)	May 25, 2012 (closed)
Late	50,000 (closed)	25,000 (closed)	June 26, 2012 (closed)
Walk-in	54,000 (closed)	26,000 (closed)	July 4, 2012 (closed)

Update on 11-6-12: The course is now full and closed for registrations.

Fees include course materials, lunch and refreshments during the course. To register, please send a demand draft for the fees in favour 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.

Alternatively, you may transfer the amount to IIT Bombay account and inform me (anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in) the amount, the transaction ID, the bank branch name, your name and the date of transfer.

Name of the Payee : Registrar, IIT Bombay, CEP Account
Name of the Bank : State Bank of India
Banker's address : IIT Powai Branch, A.S. Marg, Powai, Mumbai-400 076 India.
Phone : +91-22-25728555
Bank A/c No. : 10725729128
Account Type : CURRENT
MICR Code : 400002034
IFSC / BIC Code : SBIN0001109

If your organization needs an invoice before it can send payment, please request for an invoice for Early registration before May 15, and for Late registration before June 15.

Cancellation Policy: 100% refund till June 26, 50% refund till July 4, 0% refunds after that. Participant exchange allowed till July 9.

Accomodation: Shared accomodation is available in the IIT Bombay guest house for a limited number of participants from July 10 (evening) to July 25 (morning). If you require guest house accommodation, do mention this at the time of registration. Please note that accommodation costs are not included in the fees. Expect costs to be approximately Rs. 1,300 per head, per day, including meals. Please do not send the accommodation cost at the time of registration - you need to pay these when you check out.

If you need more information please contact anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in.

 
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