User Interface Design
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt
Tutorials: Francesco Chiossi, Julian Rasch
Hours per week: 2 Lecture + 2 Exercise
Contact Email uid ät um.ifi.lmu.de
ECTS credits: 6
Language: English
Module: Master Media Management and Digital Technologies P4 "Interface Design"
News
- 31.08.2022: This page is still under development, all content may be subject to change.
Content
This course is targeted at students of the international Master's program MMT. The lecture and the tutorials introduce interface design for digital systems, i.e., Human-Computer Interaction. The course is in English and is designed for Master's level, but does not assume deep previous knowledge in Computer Science.
How do novice users react when confronted with novel interfaces of computerized systems? Can a clever system design prevent problematic situations like the deterrence of the user or operation errors? How can systems be tailored to a specific group of users? Finally, how can the design of a system intrinsically support a progressive learning curve for the users in mastering the system?
These questions will be the focus of the lecture. Theories and design approaches from the area of Human-Computer Interaction, a sub-discipline of Computer Science neighboring Cognitive Psychology, will be introduced in the lecture. Concrete techniques for a user-centered design process for computerized products will be presented, emphasizing "low-fidelity prototyping" techniques. These techniques enable a design phase, which decouples interaction issues from technical issues. In particular, all design steps in such a methodology can be carried out in principle without any prerequisite knowledge in technology or programming.
Recommended Readings
This year Physiological Interfaces and Multi-User Interactions in VR will be the core focus of this course. We therefore recommend the following selection of readings:- Baker, C., & Fairclough, S. H. (2022). Adaptive virtual reality. In Current Research in Neuroadaptive Technology (pp. 159-176). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.011
- Fairclough, S. H. (2009). Fundamentals of physiological computing. Interacting with computers, 21(1-2), 133-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821413-8.00014-2
- McVeigh-Schultz, J., Kolesnichenko, A., & Isbister, K. (2019, May). Shaping pro-social interaction in VR: an emerging design framework. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300794
Schedule
Lecture: every Tuesday 10:00-12:00
Exercise: every Tuesday 12:00-14:00
| Date | Time | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 18.10.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Motivation and Basics, Terms |
| 25.10.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Design and Prototyping |
| 12:00-14:00 | Project Introduction | |
| 08.11.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Task Demo & Project Pitch |
| 12:00-14:00 | Group Forming & Project Ideation | |
| 15.11.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Tutorial I for Projects (Hands-On) |
| 12:00-14:00 | Project work in groups | |
| 22.11.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Mental Models - Understanable UIs |
| 12:00-14:00 | Project vision and plan presentation | |
| 29.11.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Focus on Humans |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lecture: Human Erorrs and Error prevension | |
| 06.12.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Virtual Reality, Mixed Realiy, AR |
| 12:00-14:00 | Tutorial II for Projects (Hands-On) | |
| 13.12.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Evaluation |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lecture: Principles and Guidelines | |
| 20.12.2022 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Ubiquitous Computing |
| 12:00-14:00 | Project (progress) presention | |
| Holiday | ||
| 10.01.2023 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Human I - motor, cognition |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lecture: Human II - emotion, attention | |
| 17.01.2023 | 10:00-12:00 | Tutorial III for Projects (Hands-On) |
| 12:00-14:00 | Project work in groups | |
| 24.01.2023 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Proactive UIs and Recommender |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lecture: Voice Interaction and Natural Language | |
| 31.01.2023 | 10:00-12:00 | Lecture: Human Centered AI |
| 12:00-14:00 | Project work in groups | |
| 07.02.2023 | 10:00-12:00 | Final Presentations |
| 12:00-14:00 | Final Presentations |
Location
Location: Frauenlobstr. 7a, Room 357 (from 08.11.2022 on) Edmund-Rumpler-Strasse 9, A 012 (Lecture) + A 019 (Exercise)
Remark
Please note that due to the engaging nature of the group projects, students often spend more than the allocated time on the development of their prototypes. This is especially true for the group project implementation scheduled during the lecture break.
