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CS 591 Human Computer Interaction

Introduction

Dr. Pradipta Biswas

Research AssociateResearch Associate

Department of Engineering & Trinity HallDepartment of Engineering & Trinity Hall

University of Cambridge, UKUniversity of Cambridge, UK

Working Group CoordinatorWorking Group Coordinator

International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, SwitzerlandInternational Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland

EE--mail: pb400@cam.ac.ukmail: pb400@cam.ac.uk

Web: http://wwwWeb: http://www--edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pb400edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pb400

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University of Cambridge

• 800 years old

• 31 Colleges

• 150 departments, faculties,

schools and other institutions

• Total Students: 18,306

• Total staff: 9,140

• 89 Nobel Prizes

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Instructor’s bio

•Researcher at Cambridge University (2010 - )

•WG Coordinator at ITU –T FGAVA (2011 - )

•PhD form Cambridge University (2006 – 2010)

•MTech from IIT Kgp (2004 – 2006)

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Human Computer Interaction

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Different disciplines

• Human

–Psychology • Cognitive

• Social

–Ergonomics

–Ethnography and so on

• Computer

–Graphics

–Artificial Intelligence

–Software Engineering and so on

• Others

–Design

–Mathematics

–Statistics====.

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Early computer - ENIAC

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IBM PC – 1980s

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Approx. time line (from Prof. B. Myers)

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Present status

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Integration of TV and

mobile

devices

Gesture control and speech

recognition (e.g. Microsoft‘s KINECT)

Smart Remote

Controls

Second screen:

Tablet PCs

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What we get

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What we get – usability evaluation

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Course structure

•Section 1: Users

•Section 2: Technology

•Section 3: Do it yourself

•Section 4: Evaluation

•Section 5: Standardization & wrap up

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Section 1: Users

VisionHearing

Cognition

Motor action

User M

odel

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Section 2: Case study

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Section 3: Assignment

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Section 4: Evaluation

•Experiment design

•Usability evaluation techniques

•Controlled experiments

•Qualitative analysis

•Reporting results

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Section 5: Technology

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Section 6 - Standardization

What actionscan bridge the gap?

Where are we now? What are the key obstacles?

Where do we wantAV Media to be?

What roadmapof actions and metrics

do we recommend

FutureFuture

PresentPresent

Gap betweenvision and current

situation

Gap betweenvision and current

situation

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HCI Conferences

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HCI Journals

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Take away points

•What is HCI

•Scopes and applications

•Course structure

•Resources