IMPORTANCE OF HCI IN MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT

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IMPORTANCE OF HCI

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Gaining market share People intend to buy/use products with higher usability

Improving productivity Help to perform jobs in a faster manner.

Lowering support costs If the product is not usable, calls to customer support can be

enormous Reducing development cost

Avoid implementing features users don’t want and annoying or inefficient

IMPORTANCE OF HCI (CONT)

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Enhancing human activity and experience

it will investigate, develop new areas of technologies or designs

Social computing

people were not interacting with computers, they were interacting with other people through computers.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF COURSEWARE DESIGN ?

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To inform or to persuade users.

This is accomplished by:

delivering content

presenting the content in a way that benefits the user

In truth, almost every multimedia courseware has one flaw or another:

It be confusing accessibility

Over‐ambitious design

Poor download/display time

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Therefore, you have to plan a courseware that:

Well structured

Easy to navigate

Quick download/display time

simplicity; clear and not too many choices

consistency; builds trust with the user

engagement; invites the user to participate

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF COURSEWARE DESIGN ? (CONT)

ELEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE DESIGN

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3 parts of multimedia courseware design:

Information Design

Interaction Design

Visual Design

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WHAT IS INTERACTION DESIGN?

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Interaction design (ID) is (Winograd, 1997):“the design of spaces for human communication and interaction” An architect is to a (civil) engineer, asAn interaction designer is to a software engineer

Increasingly, more application areas, more technologies and more issues to consider when designing “interfaces”

ID is highly interdisciplinary Interaction design is more general than HCI HCI is one contributor to ID

RELATIONSHIPS OF ID, HCI AND OTHER FIELDS

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• Again, interaction design is the broadest perspective

• Academic disciplines contributing to ID:

• Psychology

• Social Sciences

• Computing Sciences

• Engineering

• Ergonomics

• Informatics

• Design practices contributing to ID:

• Graphic design

• Product design

• Artist-design

• Industrial design

• Film industry Interdisciplinary fields (e.g HCI, CSCW)

Design practices(e.g. graphic design, product design)

Academic disciplines(e.g. computer science,psychology)

Interaction Design

RELATIONSHIPS OF ID, HCI AND OTHER FIELDS

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• Interdisciplinary fields that ‘do’ interaction design:

• Human Computer Interaction

• Human Factors

• Cognitive Engineering

• Cognitive Ergonomics

• Computer Supported Co-operative Work

• Information Systems

• AND there are challenges of interdisciplinary work

• More people involved in doing interaction design the more ideas and designs generated…but…

• The more difficult it can be to communicate and progress forwards the designs being created

Interdisciplinary fields (e.g HCI, CSCW)

Design practices(e.g. graphic design, product design)

Academic disciplines(e.g. computer science,psychology)

Interaction Design

CONCLUSION

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• Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.

REFERENCES

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• Muda, Z. & Mohamed, R.E.K. (2006). Adaptive user interface design in multimedia courseware. Journal on Information and Communication Technologies, 1(1), pp. 196−199.

• Dix, A., Finaly, A., Abowd, G. and beale, R. (1998); Human computer interaction, Hemel Hempstead : Prentice Hall Publishers

• Preece, J. (1993); A guide to usability, human factors in computing, Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publishing.