Monsoon Course on HCI

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay announces a course on human-computer interaction design. This edition of the course will be a synchronous course delivered online on 12 weekends between December 2, 2023 and March 24, 2023. The sessions will run on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings (7 hours per weekend). The final presentation of the course will be organised on the last weekend in-person in the IIT Bombay campus.

Course Dates

December 2, 2023 to March 24, 2024

Course Timings

Saturdays from 14:00 to 17:45 IST + Sundays from 09:30 to 13:15 IST

Last date of registration

November 28, 2023

Venue

Online

Contents

FAQs…

Who should attend?

The course is meant for working professionals and serves as an exposure to user studies, interaction design, design evaluation and related topics. 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.

The course involves lectures, individual assignments and group project work. On the whole, the course involves about 80 hours of contact over 12 weekends. In addition, it involves self study, assignments, project work and mentor interactions. For more details about the course, please see the FAQs.

Contents and Schedule

The course will run from December 2, 2023 to March 24, 2023. Here are the currently planned contents. There will be a break on some weekends. Specific dates and more content will be announced in the detailed schedule on the first day of the course.

Weekend	Saturdays (14:00 to 17:45 IST)	Sundays (09:30 to 13:15 IST)
1	Introduction and startup Introduction to contextual inquiry	Sutras of contextual inquiry
	Practice a contextual interview Form project groups
2	Analysis and tips Planning a contextual inquiry	Work models Interpreting interviews
	Interpret the first interivew More contextual interviews and interpretations
3	Consolidation using affinity Other user studies methods	Case studies, learning from the field Personas
	Interviews, interpretations and affinity Prepare for presentation 1
4	Presentation 1	Presentation 1
5	Layers of user experience Conceptual model	User models User experience goals Scenarios
	Create personas Set goals
6	Patterns, guidelines and standards	Heuristics and principles of HCI
	Brainstorming and creative ideation Create scenarios
7	Interaction techniques Microinteractions	Introduction to AR and VR
	Product detailing Finalise design and prepare for presentation 2
8	Presentation 2	Presentation 2
9	Design evaluation	Design evaluation
	Create evaluation plan Finalise prototypes
10	Integrating HCI with software engineering	Institutionalising HCI - the challenges in India
	Conduct evaluations
11	TBC	TBC
	Finish evaluations Finalise revised design Prepare for presentation 3
March 23 and 24, 2024	Presentation 3 (in person in the IIT Bombay campus)	Presentation 3 (in person in the IIT Bombay campus)

Fees

	Industry participants	Faculty members*	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.

# Though this course is mainly for working professionals, a limited number of students will be allowed to register. 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 "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
For cancellations, please write to anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in. If you cancel till November 1, 2023, IIT Bombay will refund 80% of the fees paid (minus GST). If you cancel by November 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 November 28, 2023.

Certification
Please refer to the Certification section of the FAQs for more details.

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.