Essentials of designing interactive systems
Introduction to experience design
Designing interactive systems
A framework for designing interactive systems
The process of designing interactive systems
Usability
Techniques for designing interactive systems
Understanding
Envisionment
Design including conceptual and physical design
Evaluation including expert and participant-based evaluation
Task analysis including hierarchical and Cognitive work analysis
Visual user interface design
Multimodal user interface design
Contexts for designing interactive systems
Social media
Collaborative environments
Agents and avatars
Ubiquitous computing, information spaces and their architecture
understanding, design and evaluation of Mobile computing
Foundations of designing interactive systems
Memory and attention
Cognition (distributed and embodied) and action
Social interaction
Perception (visual and non-visual) and navigation
Lecture, seminars, laboratory assignments, reading, and research
Projects w/ presentation 20% - 30%
Participation 0% - 05%
Lab/Assignments 0% - 10%
Midterm Examination* 30% - 40%
Final Examination* 30% - 40%
Total 100%
*In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
The student will be able to:
1) Explain the essentials of designing an interactive systems
2) Demonstrate the techniques for designing interactive systems
3) Evaluate the contexts for designing interactive systems
4) Explain and perform the foundations of designing interactive systems
Benyon, David. Designing Interactive Systems: A comprehensive guide to HCI, UX and interaction design, Latest edition, Pearson Education
OR
other textbook approved by department.
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
| Institution | Transfer Details | Effective Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Athabasca University (AU) | AU COMP 482 (3) | 2016/09/01 to - |
| Coquitlam College (COQU) | No credit | 2016/09/01 to - |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | No credit | 2016/09/01 to - |
| Northern Lights College (NLC) | No credit | 2016/09/01 to - |
| Okanagan College (OC) | OC COSC 341 (3) | 2016/05/01 to - |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU CMPT 3XX (3) | 2016/09/01 to - |
| University Canada West (UCW) | No credit | 2016/09/01 to - |
| University Canada West (UCW) | UCW CPSC 3XX (3) | 2006/01/01 to 2016/08/31 |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO COSC 2nd (3) | 2016/09/01 to - |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC CPSC 270 (3) | 2016/09/01 to - |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC COM 2XX (1.5) | 2016/09/01 to - |