Course co-ordinator(s): Dr Diana Bental (Edinburgh).
Aims:
To give students an introduction to designing, conducting, and analysing experiments that involve human participants, along with other basic methods of studying human interaction with computational artifacts.
Detailed Information
Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.
Pre-requisites: none.
Location: Edinburgh.
Semester: AY.
Syllabus:
- Design and conduct an experiment to evaluate the usability or user experience of a computational artefact or interface.
- Follow university and employer requirements for ethical approval.
- Devise testable hypotheses about the usability and user experience of a computational artefact and test hypotheses by experiment and analysis.
- Conduct usability experiments.
- Perform basic statistical analysis on usability data and present the outcomes.
- Perform qualitative analysis on usability data and present the outcomes.
SCQF Level: 8.
Credits: 15.