Interface Design

Catalog description

The goal of this class is to examine issues in human-technology interaction. Building effective interfaces depends upon three system components: the domain (the work to be done), the agents (humans or machines doing the work), and the interface (displays and controls). All three components contribute a set of independent, but mutually interacting set of constraints; overall levels of system performance will be determined by the extent to which the three sets of constraints are well-matched. More specifically, the effectiveness of interaction will ultimately depend upon the quality of the mappings between the constraints introduced by these three components.