Monsoon Course on HCI 2024

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay announces a 16-day course on human-computer interaction design from May 28 to June 12, 2024. The course is meant for working professionals and serves as an exposure to user studies, interaction design, design evaluation and related topics. This will be a synchronous, full time course delivered in-person mode.

Dates

May 28 to June 12, 2024

Time

9:15 am – 5:45 pm

Last date of registration

May 21, 2024

Venue

Room 1001, 1st floor, Rahul Bajaj Technology Innovation Centre

Contents

FAQs…

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 or interaction design
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 28, 2024 to June 12, 2024. Here are the currently planned contents. More contents might be added closer to the date.

Date	Morning	Afternoon
Tuesday	Introduction and startup Contextual interviews	Practice a contextual interview Analysis and tips Plan and conduct interview 1
Wednesday	Work models Interpreting interviews	Interpret interview 1 Share Conduct interview 2
Thursday	Consolidation using affinity Case studies, learning from the field	Interpret interview 2 Conduct interview 3
Friday	Other user studies methods Layers of user experience	Sharing session, plan remaining interviews
Saturday	Conduct and interpret interviews	Begin the affinity
Sunday	Continue affinity (optional)	Finish the affinity, prepare for presentation 1
Monday	Presentation 1: Findings from user studies	Conceptual models User models User experience goals
Tuesday	Personas Interaction design scenarios	Creative ideation workshop Build personas and scenarios
Wednesday	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 Prepare for presentation 2
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	Presentation 3: Findings from evaluations, final design	Feedback, Lessons learnt, Wrap up

Fees

	Indian participants from industry / government, participants from SAARC countries	Faculty members*	Full time students#	International participants from non-SAARC countries
Fees	₹ 1,52,000	₹ 82,000	₹ 82,000	₹ 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" 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
In general, all course fees received by IIT Bombay are non-refundable. Only in case of unavoidable reasons beyond the control of the participant, the course fee may be refunded if the request is received in advance. A request in this regard is to be forwarded by the course coordinator on anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in. If your request is received before April 30, 2024, IIT Bombay will refund 80% of the fees paid (minus GST). If received before May 13, 2024, IIT Bombay will refund 60% of the fees paid (minus GST). Refunds for any reasons are not possible for requests received after May 13, 2024. However, participant exchange will be allowed till May 21, 2024.

Certificate of Completion
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.