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The first class starts on Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 10:15-12:00 (Building E1 3 – Lecture Hall 2).
More information on registration will be available soon.
Registration Deadline for the Course: 16 October 2025, 23:59. The registration will open in the first week of the course.
Registration Deadline for Tutorials and Exercise Groups: 20 October 2024, 23:59.
Note: We will upload videos from the last online iteration of this lecture. These will serve as additional learning material.
Nevertheless, only the content of the on-site lecture is relevant for the exam. The online videos may differ from this.
For urgent questions, please contact Yu Jiang.
Description
This course teaches the theoretical and practical foundations for human computer interaction. It covers a wide overview of topics, techniques and approaches used for the design and evaluation of modern user interfaces.
The course covers the principles that underlie successful user interfaces, provides an overview of input and output devices and user interface types, and familiarizes students with the methods for designing and evaluating user interfaces. Students learn to critically assess user interfaces, to design user interfaces themselves, and to evaluate them in empirical studies.
Topics:
- Fundamentals of human-computer interaction
- User interface paradigms, input and output devices
- Desktop & graphical user interfaces
- Mobile user interfaces
- Natural user interfaces
- User-centered interaction design
- Design principles and guidelines
- Prototyping
- Evaluation of user interfaces
Eligibility
This lecture replaces the UID lecture. Therefore students who successfully completed UID will not be allowed to take the lecture.
Transfer of credit from previous semesters:
- “I have successfully completed the exercises and projects of HCI last year, but have not passed the final exam. Can I just write the exam?”
Yes you can transfer your exercises and projects from HCI in winter term 2023/24 to HCI in winter term 2024/25, so you do not have to hand in exercises and project assignments a second time. Please contact Yu Jiang before October 16 2024, 23:59. - You cannot transfer partial grades from previous HCI or UID lectures.
Details on the grading scheme will be announced in the first lecture.
Literature
The lecture will be based on the book:
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (Rogers et al, 3rd ed.)
Additional literature:
- Shneiderman, B., Plaisant, C.: Designing the User Interface, Pearson, 5th ed.
- Butz, A., Krüger, A.: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion, De Gruyter
- Preim, B., Dachselt, R.: Interaktive Systeme, Springer, 2nd edition (two volumes)
- Dix, A.: Human-Computer Interaction, Pearson, 3rd edition
All books are available in the library (paper copy, some of them also electronic, see here http://www.infomath-bib.de/tmp/vorlesungen/info-core_human-computer-interaction.html).
Materials
Slides, assignments, and videos will be made available online in CMS.
Exams
Main exam: 25 February 2025, 10:00 (sharp!)
Re-exam: TBD
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle
Tutorials and Organization