Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation: Grundlagen und Forschungsmethoden (Human-Computer-Interaction: Fundamentals and Research Methods)

News

• May 23: The tutorial on June 14 will be replaced by a lecture.

Persons

Juniorprof. Dr. habil. Ansgar Scherp Leon Kastler

Organization

This lecture will run from April 18 to June 20. Thus, it can be combined with the Semantic Web course of the Summer Academy, which is between June 25 and July 20.

• Lectures (Vorlesung) : Wednesday, 2-4 pm in room B016
  
• Tutorials (Übung): Thursday, 12am-2 pm in room B016

Please note that the tutorials continue until July 20.

Description

This lecture will briefly introduce the fundamentals of human-computer-interaction and subsequently focus on research methods in this area. 

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Content

This course first gives a brief introduction to the fundamentals of human-computer interaction. Subsequently, different aspects and methods in HCI will be considered that are needed to design, conduct, and report a user study. In detail, the students will gain theoretical and practical knowledge about:

• identifying a research hypothesis,

• specifying the design of a study (conditions, evironments, tasks, etc.),

• selecting appropriate means of measures (quantitative, qualitative),

• designing questionaires, and

• analyzing and reporting the results. 

Agenda

The agenda for the lecture.

• History and Fundamentals (Slides)
• Usability Testing vs. Experimental Research (Slides)
• Identify a research hypothesis (Slides)
• Specify the design of the study
  • Conditions (Slides part 1, full slide set)
  • Environment (Slides)
  • Task lists (Slides)
  • Measurements (Slides)
  • Questionnaires (Slides)
• Run a pilot study 
• Recruit participants
• Run the data collection sessions
• Analyze the data
• Report the results 

Course Assessment

• Presence at the lecture
• Successful preparation and conduction of a study in a group of 3-4 students
• Documentation of the results in a 16-20 pages report (depending on figures, illustrations, etc.)
• Documentation of the investigated object(s) in terms of screencasts or video
• Carried out independently

Accounting

• This lecture will be taught either in German or in English (depending on the audience).
• The module can be accounted as substitute for Mobile Application Systems (Module WIFH01, 6 ECTS) or Interactive Multimedia Systems (Module INSS07, 6 ECTS)