An introduction to the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with an emphasis in understanding, designing and programming user-facing software and hardware systems. This class covers the core concepts of HCI: affordances, mental models, selection techniques (pointing, touch, menus, text entry, widgets, etc), conducting user studies (psychophysics, basic statistics, etc), and the fundamentals of 3D interfaces (optics for VR, AR, etc). We compliment the lectures with weekly programming assignments and three larger projects, in which we build/program/test user-facing interactive systems. This class requires you to program assignments in Python, Javascript, and C Sharp (Unity3D, we provide a tutorial for this one), as such, the pre-requisites need to be observed.
In this class you will: solving weekly assignments (mostly programming in python and javascript) and three projects (programming in C-Sharp via Unity3D, conducting user studies, and an individual project programming in Python).
Please see UChicago's official registrar page.
Tuesday and Thursdays at 2:00pm-3:20pm in Ryerson 251
This course was developed by Pedro Lopes. All teaching materials in this class, including course slides, homeworks, assignments, practice exams and quizzes, are copyrighted. Reproduction, redistribution and other rights solely belong to the instructor. In particular, it is not permissible to upload any or part of these materials to public or private websites without the instructor's explicit consent. Violating this copyright policy will be considered an academic integrity violation.
The detailed policies for this course, such as why you cannot use AI, can be viewed in our class wiki. The University of Chicago has formal policies related to academic honesty and plagiarism. We abide by these standards in this course. Depending on the severity of the offense, you risk being dismissed altogether from the course. All cases will be referred to the Dean of Students office, which may impose further penalties, including suspension and expulsion. In addition, we expect that everyone handles their fellow students and staff members with respect, following the norms of proper behavior by members of the University of Chicago community.
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