This document outlines courses in an industrial design program that focus on cognitive psychology, user experience, human-computer interaction, and related topics. The courses cover areas like cognitive psychology principles, multimodal perception, persuasion and trust, research methods, user-centered design methodology, and interactive technologies including information visualization, speech interfaces, and collaborative systems. Software engineering topics like UML modeling and prototyping are also included.

1. Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Industrial Design
User System Interaction Program

2. Understanding People
Cognitive Psychology for USI's
Multimodal Perception
Persuasion and Trust

3. Cognitive Psychology for USI's
 User experience, usability
 Human information processing, cognition and emotion in
information processing
 Learning, mapping, affordance, constraints
 Perception and attention
 Situational awareness
 Display principles
 Mental models
 Multitasking, mental load
 Process control, automation
 User experiences (Technology Acceptance Model)
 Questionnaires

4. Multimodal Perception
 Psychophysics
 Attention sharing between modalities
 Ventriloquism
 Psychological science can improve diagnostic
decisions (Swets et al.)
 Applications

5. Persuasion and Trust
 Persuasion, influence, and behavioral change
 Behavioral change theories
 Persuasive technology and persuasion profiles
 Applications of persuasive technologies

6. Research Methodology
Research Methods
Qualitative Research Methods
Observation Studies and Non-verbal Behavior
Non Parametric and Parametric Statistics

7. Research Methods
 Social science and user research
methodologies
 Questionnaire design
 Methodology: some key concepts

8. Qualitative Research Methods
 Introduction to qualitative research
 Qualitative data collection
 Qualitative data analysis: a simple and
practical approach for designers
 UX Laddering

9. Observation Studies and Non-Verbal
Behavior
 Measuring behavior
 Judgment Study
 Coding schemes

10. Non Parametric and Parametric
Statistics
 Measurement
 Statistical terminology
 The use of nonparametric statistics
 The single sample case
 The single sample test with two measures
 Two independent samples
 The case of k related samples
 The case of k independent samples
 Correlation and regression analysis
 Student t test
 Analysis of variance

11. Design Methodology
User Centered Design Methodology
Usability Testing Methodology
Video Prototyping
Task Analysis
Game Design
Mobile Apps and Services

12. User Centered Design Methodology
 What is user interface design (real world examples)
 DOET: good and bad interfaces
 User centered design (the process)
 User research (why and how)
 User research methods
 From requirements to design
 Exploring the design space (methods and techniques)
 Design alternatives
 Introduction to prototyping
 Low‐fi and hi‐fi prototyping
 Tools for prototyping
 The process of evaluation
 Techniques for evaluating different types of prototypes

13. Usability Testing Methodology
 Usability and guidelines
 Heuristic evaluation
 Thinking Aloud
 Meta-evaluation

14. Video Prototyping
 Video in design fieldwork
 Video prototyping methodology
 Contextual video interview
 Video brainstorm

15. Task Analysis
 Task analysis as part of UCD
 Task analysis concepts
 Modeling a “current” task world
 Collecting task knowledge
 Task analysis viewpoints
 Task domain representations
 EUTERPE
 Ontology
 Task Model 1 - Issues from the model
 Requirements from Client of design
 Needs / ideas from any stakeholder or current agents
 Envisioning future task world – Task Model 2

16. Game Design
 Basics
– What is a game?
– Defining game, play, types of
games ...
– History of video games
– Game industry and basic game
concepts
– Who play‘s when and why?
– Some basic concepts, definitions
and notions
 Creating a Game
– Storytelling
– Character: creating identity
– Gameplay: creating the experience
– Levels: creating the World
– Interface: creating the connection
– Audio: creating the atmosphere
 Game Development
– Developing a game: companies,
team members and their
responsibilities
– Game development tools
– Game development stages
– Game development methods and
processes
– Documents in game development
 Evaluating Games
– Game testing
– Evaluating usability
– Evaluating user experience and
emotions

17. Mobile Apps and Services Design
 Understanding the mobile user experience
 Design the mobile user experience
 Lo-fi prototyping of mobile apps and services
 Hi-fi prototyping of mobile apps and services

18. Software Engineering
UML Modeling
Database Technology
Web Engineering
Prototyping in Flash
Prototyping Embedded Systems

19. UML Modeling
 Introduction to Software Development Life Cycle
 UML components
 Domain Model
 Use Cases
 OO Programming Concepts
 Object Diagram
 Sequence Diagram
 Communication Diagram
 Activity Diagram
 State Machine Diagram

20. Database Technology
 Introducing Database Technology
 Design: conceptual model
 Translate the conceptual model to a relational
model
 SQL Query language

21. Web Engineering
 Historical view of the Web and hypertext-based systems
 Principles of the Web architecture
 Overview of Web applications
 Web standards and diversity of Web technologies
 Principles of Web Engineering
 Overview of the development process of Web applications
 Techniques for collecting user feedback remotely
 Techniques for dealing with information architecture
 Prototyping techniques for Web application
 Tools for prototyping Web applications
 Guidelines and recommendations for dealing with Web design
 Remote usability evaluation
 User-reporting incidents
 Automated tools for accessing usability and accessibility
 Log-file analyses

22. Prototyping in Flash
 Introduction to the Flash Development Environment
 Get acquainted with the Flash Development
Environment
 Drawing and animation in Flash
 Timeline, layers, libraries and panels
 Animation of filters
 Breaking down problems into smaller chunks
 Use of ‘nesting’ or OO strategically
 Basic scripting
 Connection with external interfaces (i.e. phidgets)

23. Prototyping Embedded Systems
 Introducing Processing: syntax, type and
semantics, 2D Graphics, variables and control
flows, arrays and functions
 Interactive installations: classes and objects,
mouse and keyboard, GUI, movement detection,
3D Graphics
 Introducing Arduino: hardware, programming
and debugging, connection Processing and
Arduino using Seiral libraries
 Intergation of Arduino, Processing and
networking

24. Interactive Technology and Applications
Information Visualization
Speech-Centric Multimodal Interfaces
Computer Supported Collaborative Interfaces
Interaction Engineering: Controllers, Sensors and I/O Devices

25. Information Visualization
 What is Information Visualization?
 Data and its representation
 Representation: relationships
 Presentation: space and time
 Interaction to support information
visualization
 Norman’s Interaction Cycle
 Interaction for navigation

26. Speech-Centric Multimodal Interfaces
 Introduction: speech and multimodality in user
interface design
 Technologies: speech recognition technology,
natural language interpretation
 Dialogue management
 Natural language generation and speech
synthesis
 Multimodal interaction
 Evaluation of speech and multimodal interfaces
 Human communication

27. Computer Supported Collaborative
Interfaces
 Groupware
 Communication and collaboration models
 Adoption and use, value and experience
 Hypertext, multimedia, and the world wide
web

28. Interaction Engineering
 Application examples of enabling technology
projects
 Introduction to technology (history, stages, etc.)
 Electronics and computer technology
 Interface technology (sensors & actuators)
 Framework for classifying and analyzing
interfaces
 Hardware development