Course Announcement

Instructor: Dr. George Corliss, EN 296, 414-288-6599, George.Corliss {at} Marquette.edu

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Description: I have not yet settled on the details. What we do will depend to some extent on the interests of those who register.

We will explore mainly software user interface issues. How do humans think and work? How can we design software interfaces to work WITH humans, rather than against them? How do we test that we are doing so?

A few months ago, there was a special issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery asking, "What can mainstream software developers learn from game developers?" The consensus was, "Focus on your users' experiences." If the developers of most of our applications had thought about the experiences of their users, our software might be MUCH different.

Prerequisite: Competent programmer. For example, COEN 120, COSC 066, or COSC 154.

Graduate students: You might prefer to take it as CSEN 298 Topics in Computing, as a 200 level class. You should double-check with your advisor to be sure the class will count in your program.

See: Course syllabus and calendar

Consent of Instructor: To receive consent of instructor (which is required), send me an email, including your MU ID.

Text: JoAnn Hackos and Janice Redish, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, Wiley, 1998, www2.ari.net/redish/h&r.htm.

See Why take a Corliss class? (from MS in Computing site)

I hope you will consider enrolling.

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