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• Title page.
  
  
• Detailed Course Notes.
  
  
• Introduction.
  -- Terminology
  -- Historical Background
  -- Turning Points...
  
  
• Never Trust Designers' Intuition.
  -- Novices vs Experts
  -- Users vs designers
  -- Tasks...
  
  
• User Centred Design.
  -- Perception
  -- Cognition
  -- Physiology
  
  
• HCI and the Software Lifecycle
  -- Software Lifecycle Models
  -- HCI Lifecycle Models
  -- Guidelines, Principles, Standards
  
  
• HCI and Requirements Engineering.
  -- Interviews, Rankine Charts and Questionnaires
  -- Analysis and the Hawthorne effect
  -- QOC graphs
  
  
• Designing Text Based Interfaces
  -- Textual Input, CFGs, Interpretation
  -- Textual Output, Typography, Screen layout
  -- Deceptive simplicity
  
  
• Designing Form-Driven Interfaces
  -- Appearance: fields, context & control
  -- Behaviour: defaults and active values
  -- Navigation: maps, exit points and help
  
  
• Designing Menu-Driven Interfaces
  -- Appearance: Layout, context & control
  -- Behaviour: typeahead, tear-off ...
  -- Navigation: scrolling,hierarchical, context sensitive, user defined...
  
  
• Designing Graphical Interfaces
  -- Semantics and interpretation
  -- Direct manipulation
  -- Colour, Sound, Video
  
  
• Evaluation and Testing.
  -- Formative evaluation
  -- Summative evaluation
  -- Post-Summative evaluation
  
  
• Previous Assessments.
  
  
• Further Sources of Help.