Human/Computer Interface
Syllabus requires you to:
- Recall different approaches to the problem of communication with
ICT systems and discuss the resource implications of sophisticated
HCI.
- Discuss the implications for customising software to develop a
specialist HCI.
Introduction:
Background:
Human Computer Interface
- Notes and worksheet(ICT eLearning @ONE24)
- Improving Productivity
- Different capabilities of humans and machines
- Choosing the right interface
- Graphical User Interfaces
- Common User Interface
- Interface Design for Disabled Users
- Forms Dialogue
- Command Line Interfaces
- Menu Interfaces
- Natural Language Interface
- Speech Regonition
- Input Devices
- Questions
- Read notes
- Complete all activities
- Read on screen - no need to print out!
Exercise 1:
Designing web-based interfaces for people with disabilities:
- Partially sighted or Poor vision
- Go to this simulation to find out what it is like to view web pages if you have poor sight
- Complete all the exercises
- Learning difficulties
- Look at this simulation that mimics the effects of cognitive disabilities
- Complete all the exercises
- Blind or partially sighted
- This simulation uses a screen reader to read out the content of a typical web page for people who cannot view it or who find it difficult to see
- (Large 2.42 MB file, due to extensive audio content - may take several minutes to download)
- Colour blindness
- Examples of how an image may appear to people with different types of colour blindness
- Many of the design issues of using a web page are simular to issues surrounding the design of a Graphical User Interface
Exercise 2: GUI Styles
- On common industrial standard for PCs is the Windows Style Guide
- This sets out where different screen elements should appear
- Means that Windows products have a standard look and feel
- Helps the user to move from one package to another
- Example of typical screen layouts (scroll down the page)
- Are there any problems with this approach?
Exercise:
- Do the exercise and questions at the end of Chapter 61 of the textbook.