13MCA355 Principles of User Interface Design syllabus for MCA


Unit-1 Introduction 8 hours

Usability of Interactive Systems: Introduction, Usability Goals and Measures, UsabilityMotivation, Universal Usability, Goals for our profession. Guideline, principles, and theories:Introduction, Guidelines, principles, Theories,

Unit-2 Development Processes 6 hours

Managing Design Processes: Introduction, Organizational Design to support Usability,The Four Pillars of Design, Development methodologies: Ethnographic Observation,Participatory Design, Scenario Development, Social Impact statement for Early Design Review,Legal Issues.

Unit-3 Evaluating Interface Design 6 hours

Introduction, Expert Reviews, Usability Testing and Laboratories, Survey Instruments,Acceptance tests, Evaluation during Active Use, Controlled Psychologically OrientedExperiments

Unit-4 Interaction Styles 8 hours

Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments: Introduction, Examples of Direct Manipulation,Discussion of direct manipulation, 3D Interfaces, Tele-operation, Virtual and AugmentedRealityMenu Selection, Form Filling and Dialog Boxes: Introduction, Task-Related MenuOrganization, Single Menus, Combination of Multiple Menus, Content Organization, FastMovement Through Menus, Data Entry With Menus, Form Filling, Dialog Boxes andAlternatives, Audio Menus and Menus for Small Displays

Unit-5 Command and Natural Languages 6 hours

Introduction, Command-organization functionality strategies and structure, Naming andAbbreviations, Natural Language in computing.Interaction Devices: Introduction, Keyboards and Keypads, Pointing Devices, Speech andAuditory interfaces, Displays-Small and Large

Unit-6 Design Issues 6 hours

Quality of Service: Introduction, Models of Response-Time Impacts, Expectations andAttitudes, User Productivity, Variability in Response time, Frustrating ExperiencesBalancing Function and Fashion: Introduction, Error Messages, Non-anthropomorphicDesign, Display design, web page design, Window Design, Color

Unit-7 User Documentation and Online Help : 6 hours

Introduction, Online versus paper documentation, Reading from paper versus Displays, Shapingthe content of the Manuals, Accessing the Documentation, Online Tutorials and animateddemonstrations, Online Communities for User Assistance, The Development Process.

Unit-8 Information Search and Visualization 6 hours

Introduction, Search in Textual Documents and Database Querying, Multimedia documentsearches, Advanced filtering and Search Interfaces,Information Visualization : Introduction, Data tyoe by task taxonomy, Challenges forinformation visualization.

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