F28ED User-Centred Experimental Design

Dr Theo GeorgiouDr Arash EshghiDr Ryad Soobany

Course co-ordinator(s): Dr Theo Georgiou (Edinburgh), Dr Arash Eshghi (Edinburgh), Dr Ryad Soobany (Dubai), Md Azher Uddin (Dubai).

Aims:

To give students an introduction to designing, conducting, and analysing experiments that involve human participants,
along with other basic methods of studying interaction with computational artifacts.

Detailed Information

Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.

Pre-requisite course(s): F27ID Introduction to Interaction Design .

Location: ALP, Dubai, Edinburgh.

Semester: 1.

Syllabus:

Ethics of conducting experiments, working with users, experimental design, hypothesis testing, usability testing, basic
descriptive and inferential statistics, qualitative analysis.

SCQF Level: 8.

Credits: 15.