CS 4326 - Human Factors of Computer Systems
Spring 2015

Instructor: Dr. Vangelis Metsis

Time and Place of Class Meetings:
MW 5:00pm - 6:20pm, DERR 234

Syllabus: PDF


Contact

Instructor:
Dr. Vangelis Metsis
E-mail:
Office: CMAL 307C
Office hours: MW 12:00pm - 1:00pm, and 3:30pm - 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
1 01/21 Introduction, Human Factors Model
2 01/26 Usability
3 01/28 Visual Displays
4 02/02 Visual Displays (contd)
5 02/04 Non-Visual Displays
6 02/09 Controls
7 02/11 Environment
8 02/16 Cognition
9 02/18 Training
10 02/23 Team Performance
11 02/25 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 9, 5, 10, 7
12 03/02 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 6, 3, 4, 11
13 03/04 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 2, 12, 13, 1
14 03/09 Project proposal presentations - Groups: 8
15 03/11 Writing a Survey Paper
16 03/23 Fatigue, Research Topics
17 03/25 Human Factors and Interface Design
18 03/30 What is Interaction Design
19 04/01 Conceptualizing Interaction Design
20 04/06 Cognitive Aspects
21 04/08 Emotional Interaction
22 04/13 Interfaces
23 04/15 Gathering Data & Data Analysis
24 04/20 Evaluation and Usability Testing
25 04/22 Brain-Computer Interfaces & Introduction to Biometrics
26 04/27 Final Project presentations/demos – Groups: 5, 6, 11
27 04/29 Final Project presentations/demos – Groups: 13, 12, 9
28 05/04 Final Project presentations/demos – Groups: 3, 2, 10
29 05/06 Final Project presentations/demos – Groups: 7, 8, 4, 1


Homework Assignments

- Semester-long project description.