Topics include: Human-centered software development: Approaches, characteristics, and overview of process, functionality and usability: task analysis, interviews, surveys, Specifying interaction and presentation, Prototyping techniques and tools Graphical user-interface design: Choosing interaction styles and interaction techniques, HCI aspects of common widgets, HCI aspects of screen design: layout, color, fonts, labeling, Handling human failure, Beyond simple screen design: visualization, representation, metaphor, Multi-modal interaction: graphics, sound, and haptics, 3D interaction and virtual reality Graphical user-interface programming: UIMS, dialogue independence and levels of analysis, Widget classes, Event management and user interaction, Geometry management, GUI builders and UI programming environments, Cross-platform design HCI aspects of multimedia systems: Categorization and architectures of information: hierarchies, hypermedia, Information retrieval and human performance (Web search, Usability of database query languages, Graphics, Sound), HCI design of multimedia information systems, Speech recognition and natural language processing, Information appliances and mobile computing
