Lecture 1 Introduction

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• Lecture 1 Introduction
• Terry Winograd
• CS147 - Introduction to Human-Computer
  Interaction Design
• Computer Science Department
• Stanford University
• Autumn 2006

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Goals for the Course

• Students will learn the fundamental concepts of
  human-computer interaction and user-centered
  design thinking, through working in teams on an
  interaction design project, supported by
  lectures, readings, and discussions.
• They will learn to evaluate and design useable
  and appropriate software based on psychological,
  social, and technical analysis.
• They will become familiar with the variety of
  design and evaluation methods used in interaction
  design, and will get experience with these
  methods in their projects.

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Learning Goals for Today

• Become aware of the breadth of technologies and
  issues in HCI today
• Have a basic understanding of what interaction
  designers do
• Learn what will happen in this course

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How Do People Interact with Computers?

• login as winograd
• winograd_at_graphics's password
• Last login Tue Sep 20 152248 2005 from
  xtz.stanford.edu
• Welcome to SULinux!
• Authorized Use Only
• Hint run /usr/sbin/sulinux to reconfigure at any
  time
• Graphicsgt echo "hello world"
• hello world
• Graphicsgt connect to the web
• connect Command not found.
• Graphicsgt help
• help Command not found.
• Graphicsgt rm R
• Graphicsgt

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Desktop GUIs and Applications
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Pointing Devices
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Desktop GUIS and applications
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Web Applications
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3D Desktops
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Mobile Devices
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Pen-based Interaction
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Interactive Workspaces
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Display Walls
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The Office of the Future
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Tabletop interaction
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Tangible Interaction
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Augmented Reality
John Underkoffler Tangible Media Group Mit Media
Lab
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Wearable Computers
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Ambient Information
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Voice and Multimodal Interaction
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Embodied Interaction
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Virtual Reality
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Sensor Networks
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Sensing Affect
Blood Volume Pressure (BVP) earring
Galvanic SkinResponse (GSR) rings and bracelet
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Cyborgs
STELARC
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Interaction design profession(s)

• Broad set of disciplines, technical, social,
  business, ...
• Interaction design job categories
• interaction designer
• usability engineer
• web designer
• information architect
• user-experience designer
• product manager

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What skills are used in HCI?

• Designer
• Visual and audio design
• Design process skills and methods
• Programmer
• Systems, toolkits, and languages
• Software engineering techniques
• Researcher
• Cognitive principles and theories
• Experimental techniques

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Some Specific Learning Goals

• Broad familiarity with the major areas of current
  HCI development and research
• Skill with designing a GUI interface
• Learn to use a variety of interaction design
  processes and techniques and know when they are
  appropriate.
• Learn to evaluate an interactive product and
  explain what is good and bad about it in terms of
  the concepts, goals, and principles of
  interaction design.
• Learn how to apply usability evaluation methods
  and know when they are appropriate
• Understand how the diversity of users/market
  segments, etc. guides and constrains design

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Some Specific Learning Goals

• Understand the role of social dynamics in
  interaction and how it applies in design,
  including concerns such as privacy, power, and
  accessibility.
• Be familiar with different interaction styles and
  their pros and cons
• Be able to use metaphors appropriately in
  building conceptual models.
• Understand cognitive factors that affect
  usability
• Be able to judge the availability and feasibility
  of different devices for interacting
• Have experience with ovserving users and
  analyzing the problems

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Structure of the Course See syllabus

• Lectures
• Readings
• Interaction Design, Preece, Rogers, and Sharp
• Readings to be provided on line
• Weekly sections or team 1-on-1 with TAs
• Monzy, Doantam, Kevin and Nundu
• Individual assignments and 2/3-term exam
• Team Project
• Milestones and Presentations

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Other info

• This course
• http//cs147.stanford.edu
• CS547 Speakers Fridays 1230, Gates B01
• http//hci.stanford.edu/seminar
• Also available on line
• List of all HCI courses
• http//hci.stanford.edu/academics/
• HCI program in general
• http//hci.stanford.edu