Teaching

Fall Semester

INFO-H 483/583 Conversational User Interfaces: Experience Design and Applications
Course Description: This course covers how to design, prototype, and evaluate conversational user interfaces. Students learn the tools and methods of experience design in this modality, exploring through their projects the cognitive, experiential, and social aspects of user interaction. They also examine emerging application areas and research trends. (This course is also offered as part of the BA in Artificial Intelligence).

INFO-H 543 Interaction Design Methods
Course Description: Web usability principles (theory) and practices are covered with a semester-long project that draws upon relationships between Web and software design and usability engineering. Students also learn a collection of user requirements and testing processes and techniques for the development of more usable interactive systems.

Spring Semester
NEWM N510 Web Database Development (formerly Wed Database Concepts)
Course Description: Addresses diverse issues arising when designing the World Wide Web interface. Basic database concepts will be presented but the course will focus on discussion of interface issues specific to web databases, technologies for linking databases to web servers for delivery, discussion of various web-database applications, case studies, and industry trends.