Intro part deux

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Intro part deux

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Agenda

• Classroom 2000
• Why HCI?
• Understanding my customer

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Classroom 2000

• The classroom is a rich multimedia experience
• Copying notes is tedious
• Why not let the room help out?

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Lectures are captured

• Prepared presentation
• Web pages
• Audio and Video
• How to access

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What is your role?

• What is impact on teaching and learning?
• You provide real data.
• You provide real feedback.

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What is HCI?

• The study of people and computing technology and
  the way they influence each other
• 3 Us

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Why study HCI?

• Increased importance from specialist to hobbyist
  to general user
• Computers directly or indirectly affect almost
  everything
• Increasing user expectations and needs
• What you dont know can kill others and waste
  lots of

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Its HARD!

• Design is more difficult when the designer takes
  responsibility.
• Think about the user(s), the situation and make
  the system appropriate.
• Co-evolution makes it even harder.

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Engineering and Research

• Looking to learn repeatable techniques for
  effective HCI design.
• Want to inspire scientific discovery of new
  techniques for interaction.

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6750 is the door

• Purpose motivate you to go further
• more classes
• more research
• Plenty of opportunity to go beyond what is read
  in the book and discussed in lecture.

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Examples of good and bad

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Understanding my customer

• YOU

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Upcoming

• Software Engineering project on Fri
• Start reading (DFAB Ch. 5, DOET)
• Check out past projects