Who should attend?

This course is for you if you are:

An interaction designer, a user interface designer or a user experience designer with little formal exposure to design
A design professional from another design discipline who wants 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
A faculty member in a design school or an engineering college who would like to teach a course on topics such as human-computer interaction, user studies, interaction design or design evaluation.

HCI stands for human-computer interaction. The Monsoon Course on HCI has two goals. Firstly, it gives participants an exposure to issues, theories, principles and concerns relating to human interaction with interactive products. Secondly, it provides participants hands-on practice with the process and the techniques related to user studies, interaction design and design evaluation. After attending the course, participants should be able to conceptualise, design and evaluate interactive products. Those who are already involved in these activities should be able to improve the quality of their work, and should understand the theory behind what they do. Those responsible for the process should be able to make the process in their organizations more user-centered. For more details about the course, please see the FAQs.

Contents and Schedule

The course will run from May 31, 2023 (Wednesday 1) to June 14, 2023 (Wednesday 3). Here are the currently planned contents. More contents might be added closer to the date.

Date	Morning	Afternoon
Wednesday 1	Introduction and startup Contextual interviews	Practice a contextual interview Analysis and tips Plan and conduct interview 1
Thursday	Work models Interpreting interviews	Interpret interview 1 Share Conduct interview 2
Friday	Consolidation using affinity Other user studies methods Case studies, learning from the field	Interpret interview 2 Conduct interview 3
Saturday	Conduct and interpret interviews
Sunday	Conduct and interpret interviews (optional)	Begin the affinity
Monday	Layers of user experience Conceptual models User models	Finish the affinity Presentation 1: Findings from user studies
Tuesday	User experience goals Personas	Interaction design scenarios Build personas and scenarios
Wednesday 2	Patterns, guidelines and standards Heuristics and principles of human-computer interaction	Build personas and scenarios Interaction design case studies
Thursday	Detail out the interfaces	Prototype the design Build a presentation of the design
Friday	Design evaluation	Presentation 2: Personas, scenarios, interfaces Plan evaluations
Saturday	Plan and do evaluations
Sunday	Do evaluations (optional)
Monday	Design process Integrating HCI with software engineering Institutionalising HCI - the challenges in India	Do evaluations
Tuesday	Integrating HCI methods in your work User experience metrics	Redesign
Wednesday 3	Presentation 3: Findings from evaluations, final design	Feedback, Lessons learnt, Wrap up

Fees

	Industry participants	Faculty members* and government organisations	Full time students#	International participants
Fees	₹ 1,52,000	₹ 76,000	₹ 76,000	₹ 4,56,000

* Only faculty members who are involved with teaching design, HCI or related topics in an educational institute full-time can avail these reduced fees. Visiting or part-time faculty members, those teaching in the industry, freelancers, and those working in the industry need to pay the industry fees.

# Only students who are enrolled in an educational institute for full-time studies can avail these reduced fees. Freelancers, part-time students and those working in the industry need to pay the industry fees.

The fees include the course materials, which will be distributed digitally. The fees are inclusive of 18% GST. Please note that TDS need not be deducted towards payments made to IIT Bombay. A certificate to this effect is available on request.

Registration

Before you register, please have handy a scanned copy of your photo-id (e.g. Adhaar card). To register, please follow the following steps:

Please visit https://portal.iitb.ac.in/ceqipapp/home.jsp and click on the link "List CEP/GIAN Courses".
Select CEP/GAIN courses. Search for the "HCI" and click on the "Apply" button below the "Monsoon Course on HCI 2023" course name. Create an account and login. Then fill out the course registration form. You will be asked to submit a photo id. Also, please make sure that you choose the appropriate category (academia, government organisation, industry, foriegn national or student).
Your application will be approved (usually within 24 hours), after which you will get an email
Login on https://portal.iitb.ac.in/ceqipapp/home.jsp again, click on "My Courses" and click on the button called "Application Submission Details".
Pay the fees. You could pay by internet banking, credit or debit cards, demand draft (DD), or choose to pay through your company. Internet banking / cards are the fastest (minutes), company payments are the slowest (days). If you choose DD, you will need to have the DD details ready. If you choose to use company payment, please have the name and contact details of the person in the your company who will manage the payment.
After we receive your fees, we will send you a confirmation of your registration.

The above process is demonstrated in this Youtube video (that version is a bit older, but still gives an overview). In case you face any problems, please write to anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in.

Cancellation Policy
For cancellations, please write to anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in. If you cancel till April 30, 2023, IIT Bombay will refund 80% of the fees paid (minus GST). If you cancel by May 15, 2023, IIT Bombay will refund 60% of the fees paid (minus GST). There will be no refunds thereafter. However, participant exchange will be allowed till May 28, 2023. In case Covid19 restrictions are imposed in Mumbai / IIT Bombay campus during the course, the course will run in a fully virtual mode for all participants. In either case, refunds due to cancellations are not possible after May 15, 2023.

Certificate of Completion (new)
Please refer to the Certification section of the FAQs for more details on certification.

Accommodation
Shared accomodation is available in an IIT Bombay guest house for a limited number of participants on a first-come-first-served basis. Accommodation costs are not included in the course fees. Please refer to the Guest House section of the FAQs for more details on guest house accommodation in IIT Bombay.

Monsoon Course on HCI 2023

Who should attend?

Contents and Schedule

Fees

Registration