HITD602-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Human Interface Technology - Design and Evaluation

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

The Human Interface Technology - Design and Evaluation course covers the aesthetic design of user interfaces, along with common evaluation methods used to assess them. Students will learn how to conduct statistical analyses for user interface evaluation. Individual as well as work in teams will be required to complete assignments. This course consists of lectures and assignments. Familiarity with basic statistical methods is recommended.

In an interactive way, this course covers topics such as:

• What is Human Interface Design?
• What is the relationship between aesthetics, function and user experience?
• What are the major design principles for technologically mediated experiences, such as VR, AR, and AIG?
• What are typical interface design processes for VR, AR, and AIG?
• What is an ‘effective’ structure and composition of a user interface?
• How does one go about evaluating design and experiences?
• When and how should we employ qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation methods?

Individual as well as work in teams will be required to complete assignments. This course consists of interactive lectures and assignments.

Structure:

This course includes interactive lectures and workshops that take place in the HIT Lab NZ at UC. Students will explore and discuss the topics, and work towards identifying practical, creative approaches to solutions of formulated problems. In this problem-based, constructive learning approach, students will get to know various fields of human interaction technology design, useful for their research-based thesis work following the courses.

The topics of HITD602 are well aligned with the content of HITD603. Both courses complement each other and provide students with foundational knowledge and practical skills to prepare and conduct their thesis projects. However, both HITD602 and HITD603 courses are separate and do not need to be taken together.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

Subject to Approval of the College of Engineering Dean (Academic)

Restrictions

HITD601

Course Coordinator

Rob Lindeman

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 25

For further information see Human Interface Technology Laboratory .

All HITD602 Occurrences

  • HITD602-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025
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