11th Workshop "Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering"

Ohrid, Macedonia 22-27 August 2011

Selected student software projects in the field of HCI

Dusanka Boskovic

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

University of Sarajevo

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Content

• Introduction

• Sample projects

• Project evaluation

• Report for final exam

• Conclusion

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HCI Course

• Master studies at Automatic Control and Electronics Department, 3rd semester, elective course

• Learning outcome:– Human Computer Interface - Design and

implementation

• Designing HCI as approach to develop usable software• Lot of theoretical concepts• Lot of practical work to be done on the way

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Projects• HCI for process control

– Production according recipe: concrete factory, coffee vending machine – Conveyor belt– Sensor networks: meteorology, process regulation, heating and alarm

systems – Specific control projects: biomedicine, network traffic monitoring and

maintenance • Business oriented:

– pationt records – dental including graphics,– customs declaration, – human rights complaints

• Graphical User Interface– Census data display– Wind rose graph

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Concrete factory

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Conveyor belt

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Car dashboard

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Car dashbord – simulation UI

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Custsoms declaration

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Assessment

Detailed and documented student achievemnt:

- Addressing HCI issues - HCI Design – HCI design principles, HCI design patterns- Implementation - scope and results

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Report for exam

• Questionnaire: every lesson covered with several questions (2-7)

• Provide answers related to the project– Describe their typical user– Describe method used in design, and rationale for

method selection– HCI Design patterns used and assessment of results

achieved by implementing it– Project evaluation according given software quality

model

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Conclusion

• Important detailed assessment of a project results

• Presentation of previous projects

• Re-examination of a project by students through writing exam report