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April 20, 2024

Principles of HCI

 

Some of these concepts were taught in M206. I will point you to a page on this site which will explain three of those; affordance, visibility and feedback.

For an example of how not to do it, you might like to look at the next page .

You might like to read an interview with HCI guru Don Norman here. He was interviewed by the The Guardian's Jack Schofield in March 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Search on Don Norman and follow the link to Emotional about design

Next page » How not to use a hyperlink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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» OU Courses

• M150 index
• M206 index
• T171 index

Block 1

• Differences between data and information
• Data or datum?
• Transforming data into information
• Binary Number System
• Octal Number System
• Hexadecimal Number System
• Conversion rules
• Binary Addition
• Number exercises
• Introduction to document markup
• Structured documents
• SGML
• HTML and Hyperlinking
• Introduction to XML
• Transformation of XML data using XSL
• Filtering XML data
• Sorting XML data
• Applying selection to XML data
• More complex selection to XML data

Block 2

• Introduction to JavaScript
• Strings
• Numbers
• Booleans
• Password problem
• Arrays
• Objects
• Event-driven programming and Date objects
• The continue statement

Block 3

• Principles of HCI
• How not to use hyperlinks
• How to use hyperlinks
• Introduction to Key Encryption
• Key Distribution
• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
• Clipper