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2016/2017 KAN-CEBUV2033U Advanced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) topics, tools, and techniques/HCI in organizations
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| Advanced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) topics, tools, and techniques/HCI in organizations |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Start time of the course | Spring |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and
Information Systems, MSc
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| Last updated on 23-02-2016 | |
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To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors: After the course the student should be able to:
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| Ideally, the course participants
should have acquired basic knowledge in interaction design, UX and
HCI, for example from courses such as HA(it.) "større
systemer", or EBUSS "Service Design" or "Design
of Business IT".
NOTE! Students who do NOT have basic knowledge of HCI will be required to take a short crash course in Human-Computer Interaction that introduces key concepts and methods. The crash course is ONLY for students without basic knowledge, and its given in the first week of the course, outside normal class lectures. |
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Number of mandatory
activities: 2
Compulsory assignments
(assessed approved/not approved)
Mid-term deliverable: Detailed description (5 page research proposal) of how to replicate a study (in small scale) done within one of the theoretical topics from the first part of the course [Learn assignment, graded pass/fail].
Requirements about active
class participation (assessed approved/not approved)
Participating in work analysis and design work (group of min. 2 people). This is also the exam group. 3 oral presentations of ongoing work analysis and design work. |
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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) builds on the ideology of empowering the end-users of computers, so that they understand what is happening and can control the outcome (Nielsen, 2005). How does that work for HCI in organizations and societies? HCI researchers aim to produce new knowledge about the interfaces between people and computers, by analyzing how humans work, learn, and play, and by designing new interactions and interfaces that change what humans do and experience. While HCI historically has been based on applying cognitive psychology to understand the individual user (see e.g. The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, Card, Moran, & Newell, 1983), one strong trend in modern and contemporary HCI is to study applications in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts.
When we want to change the HCI interfaces and interactions that people do and experience within and across organization, we may begin with exploring traditional organizational usability and UX. Appropriate measures may include user-system fit (the fit between the system and the user’s psychological characteristics, including cognitive processes and training), organization-system fit (the fit between system attributes and the structural characteristics of an organization, including its norms, task allocation, and communication channels), and environment-system fit (the fit between system attributes and the environment of the organization in which it is used, including the home-work ecology). More than that is needed to design the employer and customer experience, however, and taking business, managerial, organizational, and cultural views of HCI allow the organizational HCI researcher consultant to design for different organizational levels from top management to employers and customers, and to study traditional B-school topics and how HCI may shape these. We may want to look at topics such as HCI and corporate and public governance, HCI and interoperability, HCI and legacy systems, and the concept of ‘end-user’ in organizations. All of this will be sought integrated in an ‘artefact’ analysis, based on the idea that HCI artifacts themselves may be the most effective medium for theory development in HCI.
Hence, to design HCI for organizations, the big thing of this course is to do HCI design action research that constructs or modifies one or more HCI artefacts within their exisiting organizational contexts: sketches, prototypes, templates, running systems – anything that changes the interactions that people do and experience. The cases that students selects may be designing interactions in networks of organizations, creating mini-hacks for appropriation of workflows, designing the smart workplace, collaboration on big public screens, and more. The techniques and tools will be varied accordingly, but may include participatory design, work and workplace analysis, advanced interaction design, contextual personas, mass production of low fi prototypes (with e.g. balsamiq), remote UX evaluation (several tools exist), and various tools for data analysis. |
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| This course is intended as an
advanced course in HCI for students aiming to do their master
thesis with a HCI topic, aim at a carreer as a UX professional or
UX manager, or simply has a keen interest in the topic. Students
will be asked within the first two weeks to identify and contact
organizations, including start-ups, which could benefit from an
analysis and change how people do and experience HCI interactions.
This can be banks and service providing companies, but also
manufactoring industry with factory floors (e.g., human-robot
interaction) and agricultural business.
Student activities will be centered on their own case. |
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Literature
Books: Button, G., & Sharrock, W. (2009). Studies of Work and the Workplace in HCI: Concepts and Techniques. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, 2(1), 1-96. Papers (tentative)
Lu, Y., & Roto, V. (2015). Evoking meaningful experiences at work: A positive design framework for work tools. Journal of Engineering Design, Special issue on Interaction and Experience Design 26(4-6), pp. 99- 20.
Schaufeli, W. B., Salanova, M., González-Romá, V., & Bakker, A. B. (2002). The measurement of engagement and burnout: A two sample confirmatory factor analytic approach. Journal of Happiness Studies, 3(1), 71–92.
Gruber, M., De Leon, N., George, G., & Thompson, P. (2015). Managing by design. Academy of Management Journal, 58(1), 1-7.
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