Desktop-based User Interfaces for Computer Applications (2D Graphical User Interfaces)
(Desktop-basierte Nutzerschnittstellen für Computeranwendungen)
Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2006
Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D.
Content
Time & Location
Thursdays,
8:45-10:15(changed), Room 03.13.010
Starting date: Apr. 27, 2006
More Information
Intended audience:
- Diploma students: Hauptstudium Informatik I (Praktische Informatik)
- Senior bachelor students with interest in pursuing a bachelor's thesis in this area
- Master students
Prerequisites:
Schein:
- Oral exams (15 minutes) during the last week of the semester and the first weeks of the summer holidays.
- Languages: German or English
- Details including a sign-up sheet will be shown at this place in July.
- Suggested exam dates.
Office hours:
- Tuesdays, 12:00 - 13:00 and by appointment (email to Prof.Klinker)
The class will be conducted in English
Schedule (subject to change)
| Date | Subject | links to slides (restricted) |
| 27.04.2006 | 1. Introduction and overview | Slides L1 |
| 04.05.2006 | 2. Human factors | Slides L2 |
| 11.05.2006 | 3. Theories, principles and guidelines | Slides L3, paper ia > ai, extra information on Fitts' law |
| 18.05.2006 | 4. Development processes: design process and evaluation | Slides L4 |
| 25.05.2006 | Christi Himmelfahrt - no class | - |
| 01.06.2006 | 5. User interface software tools | Slides L5, paper Past, Present and Future of UI Software Tools |
| 08.06.2006 | 6. Interaction styles: direct manipulation, virtual environments | Slides L6 |
| 15.06.2006 | Fronleichnam - no class | - |
| 22.06.2006 | 7. Interaction styles: menu selection form fillin, dialog boxes | Slides L7 |
| 29.06.2006 | 8. Interaction styles: command and natural languages | (topic of L8 skipped due to presentation delays) |
| 06.07.2006 | 9. Interaction styles: interaction devices | Slides L9 |
| 13.07.2006 | 10. Interaction styles: collaboration | Slides L10 |
| 20.07.2006 | 10. Collaboration (cont.) | - |
| 27.07.2006 | Lab visits | |
Literature
The lecture will be based on the book:
- Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4. ed.) by: Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. Pearson International Edition. Addison-Wesley Pearson Education, 2005. ISBN 0-321-26978-0.
Further reading:
- Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millenium by: John M. Caroll (ed.). Addison Wesley Pearson Education, 2001. http://www.aw.com/cseng/. ISBN 0-201-70447-1.
- Usability Engineering by: Jakob Nielsen. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. ISBN 0-12-518406-9.
- The Design of Everyday Things by: Donald A. Norman. Basic Books, 2002. ISBN 0-465-06710-7.