HCI 460

Spring 2016

Craig Miller

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• Midterm Quiz
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HCI 460 Usability Evaluation Methods

Course Overview

This course surveys methods for evaluating user interfaces. For projects, students will perform a heuristic evaluation, a cognitive walkthrough, a usability test and a comparison study. Class meetings will also introduce, discuss and occasionally practice additional methods such as user modeling and questionnaires.

Course Goals

By the end of the quarter, students will be able to...

• Conduct a variety of methods for evaluating the usability of interactive systems
• Select an appropriate evaluation method and articulate its advantages and disadvantages
• Critique the validity of usability measures
• Explain the role of evaluation in the design process
• Establish useful test objectives
• Prepare reports and present results

Projects

• Heuristic Evaluation and Cognitive Walkthrough (Individual project)
• Usability Test Plan
• Usability Test and Results
• Quantitative Comparison Study