Information Architecture and Web Usability

(706.041 Information Architecture and Web Usability 3VU WS 2009/2010)

Lecturer: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Keith Andrews
Course Home Page: http://courses.iicm.tugraz.at/iaweb/
My Home Page: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/keith
Email: kandrews@iicm.edu
Office Hour: Mon. 11:00-12:00 during normal term
Room D.2.16, ID01054, IICM, Inffeldg. 16c, 1st floor.
Initial Meeting: Thu 08 Oct 2009 12:15-13:00
Seminar Room IICM, D.1.10, Inffeldg. 16c, ground floor.
Lectures: Tue 14:15-16:45 from 13 Oct 2009
Seminar Room IICM, D.1.10, Inffeldg. 16c, ground floor.
Schedule: The approximate course schedule
Lecture Notes:

http://courses.iicm.tugraz.at/iaweb/iaweb.pdf   [124 pages PDF]

[Note: The lecture notes are never in their final form, but will be updated as the course progresses.]

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Course Newsgroup: tu-graz.lv.iaweb

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Course Materials: materials
Aims and Objectives of Course:

First we will look at current work and results in the areas of information architecture and web usability. Students will form groups of 4 and research and present one particular factor of web usability. During the course, students will run a usability study (either a thinking aloud test or a formal experiment) of a web site.

Teaching Method:

A mixture of lecture, practical, and seminar with lots of group discussion.

Prerequisites:

This course is an advanced course and assumes knowledge of the methods of usability engineering.

You must have completed the course on Human-Computer Interaction and be a grad (Masters) or postgrad (PhD) student.

Experience in experimental design and statistics (psychology) would be a bonus, but is not necessary.

Registration:

This is an advanced course. The number of students is limited to 20 to encourage participation and discussion. Priority will be given to Master's and PhD students in computer science.

Examination Method: The grade will be determined by your presentation of a research topic and the running of a web usability study.