Knowledge: - Understand and be able to apply the concepts of usability and User Experience. - Know the human-centered design processes and their application. - Learn advantages and disadvantages of interaction technologies. Skills: - Develop a working prototype according to a human-centered design process. - Master some novel interaction technologies. - Experience joint development of a project within a group of engineers.

- Programming skills. - Knowledge of web and related technologies/languages (e.g., HTML, JS, client-server architectures, …). - Attitude towards working in teams.

Course topics will cover three areas: - Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction. - Building interactive applications with a human-centered process. The main tasks and methods to design, develop, and evaluate an interactive application: needfindings strategies, low- and high-fidelity prototypes, mental models and visual design, heuristic evaluation, and basic concepts and methods for user studies (3 credits of lectures and exercises). This part will focus, in general, on the design process. Students will apply such concepts to a specific application domain in developing a group project, which they will carry on during the lab hours (2 credits). - "Beyond WIMP" paradigms, such as interaction with AI-powered systems, tangible interaction, voice user interfaces, and gestures. We will discuss selected paradigms from different perspectives, ranging from rationale and vision to contemporary examples and development tools (1 credit).

The learning method is project-based (i.e., students learn by doing a project) and problem-based (i.e., the project work starts from real users' needs), with teams of students working together towards a common goal. Project-related activities will start at the beginning of the course, and teachers will provide support and guidance for the entire semester. Students will propose possible project topics, which teachers need to approve. Projects will follow the proposed human-centered design process and will be accompanied by assignments to be prepared before some given deadlines. All assignments will be done in groups except one, which will be individual. Such assignments will be the primary way to check the project activities and provide feedback, and they will not be graded until the exam. Feedback is there to help students improve the next step in their course project, thus being separated from grading. At the end of the course, projects will consist of interactive prototypes developed as modern applications in which "beyond WIMP" paradigms might be exploited for user interaction. During the course, communications and project development will adopt contemporary solutions and tools (e.g., Git and GitHub, Telegram/Slack, etc.). Lectures and in-class exercises will be video-recorded and made available after each class. The course may include live seminars by people from industry or other organizations, such as thematic panels on emerging topics to illustrate specific case studies.

* Course slides and related materials (e.g., links, readings, …) * Selected chapters of: - Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd, Russell Beale: Human Computer Interaction, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004, ISBN 0130461091 - Shneiderman, Plaisant, Cohen, Jacobs, Elmqvist and Diakopoulos: Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 6th Edition, Pearson, 2016, ISBN 013438038X / 9780134380384

Lecture slides; Exercises; Exercise with solutions ; Video lectures (current year); Student collaboration tools;

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Individual essay; Group project;

The exam consists of submitting and presenting the group project within the same academic year. Projects will be discussed and revised along the course with teachers (see the "Course structure" section). Groups will submit their project before the exam date (i.e., seven days before), and they will discuss their final work through an oral session, where all group components must be present. In addition to the group project, students will submit an individual assignment, which is related to the project and part of the human-centered process followed during the course. The material to be submitted for the exam includes a) a report summarizing the group assignments, b) the individual report describing the individual assignment, and c) the source code of the final project's prototype. Students will demonstrate the skills and knowledge acquired during the course with the development of the project and the individual assignment, and they will further deepen them during the oral discussion. The assessment is expressed on a scale from 0 to 30, with the project accounting for 20 points, the individual assignment up to 6, and the oral discussion for the other 4 points. Additional points (up to 2) can be assigned for the project (significant originality, complexity, and richness of the work), the effort invested during the course (labs and feedback sessions), and for the oral discussion (quality and richness of the discussion). These additional points will allow students to reach 30L. Overall, the evaluation criteria will include the following: - Invested effort in the project activity. - Originality, complexity, and richness of the work. - Methodological and technical correctness of the entire process. - Completeness and communication quality of the deliverables. - Quality of the presentation and oral discussion. - Individual contribution.

In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.