CS 4326/5326 - Human Factors of Computer Systems
Spring 2016

Instructor: Dr. Vangelis Metsis

Time and Place of Class Meetings:
MW 5:00pm - 6:20pm, DERR 240

Syllabus: PDF


Contact

Instructor:
Dr. Vangelis Metsis
E-mail:
Office: CMAL 307C
Office hours: MW 2:30pm - 5:00pm


Class Schedule

The lecture notes and materials can be found at the TRACS e-learning platform.

As the instructor for this course, I reserve the right to adjust this schedule in any way that serves the educational needs of the students enrolled in this course. -Vangelis Metsis.

Class         Date         Topic Notes
1 01/20 Introduction, Human Factors Model -
2 01/25 Usability -
3 01/27 Visual Displays -
4 02/01 Visual Displays (cont.) -
5 02/03 Non-Visual Displays -
6 02/08 Controls In-class Exercise 1
7 02/10 Environment -
8 02/15 Cognition -
9 02/17 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 9, 5, 10, 1 -
10 02/22 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 6, 3, 15, 11 -
11 02/24 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 2, 12, 16, 7 -
12 02/29 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 8, 14, 4, 13 -
13 03/02 Cognition (cont.) In-class Exercise 2
14 03/07 Training -
15 03/09 Team Performance -
16 03/21 Fatigue & Sleep Research -
17 03/23 Writing a Survey Paper -
18 03/28 Human Factors and Interface Design -
19 03/30 Human Factors and Interface Design (cont.) -
20 04/04 Case study - Usability & Mobile development at USAA Lecture given by Victoria Fry (Sr Developer and Integrator at USAA)
21 04/06 What is Interaction Design -
22 04/11 Conceptualizing Interaction Design -
23 04/13 Emotional Interaction -
24 04/18 Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization -
25 04/20 Brain-Computer Interfaces -
26 04/25 Final project presentations - Groups: 5, 6, 11, 14 -
27 04/27 Final project presentations - Groups: 13, 12, 8 -
28 05/02 Final project presentations - Groups: 3, 2, 10, 16 -
29 05/04 Final project presentations - Groups: 7, 15, 4, 1, 9 -


Homework Assignments

- Semester-long project description.