Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction 1

Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction 1
2025-2026

Lectures: building 640 (PUIO), room E107, Tuesday 1:30pm-3pm - map
Instructor: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon mbl@lisn.fr
TA sessions: building 640 (PUIO), room E107, Tuesday 3:30pm-5pm - map
Teaching Assistants: Xinpei Zheng and Francesco Dettori – Website for TA sessions


Week 1: Tuesday 2 September, Lecture 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:30pm-5pm, E107
Week 2: Tuesday 9 September, Lecture 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:30pm-5pm, E107
Week 3: Tuesday 16 September, Lecture 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:30pm-5pm, E107
Week 4: Tuesday 23 September, Lecture 1:30pm-3pm AND 3:30pm-5pm, E107
Week 5: Tuesday 30 October, No lecture / TA 1:30pm-3pm AND 3:30pm-5pm, E107
Week 6: Tuesday 7 October, Lecture 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:30pm-5pm, E107
Week 7: Tuesday 14 October, Lecture 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:30pm-5pm, E107

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Course Summary

This is a mandatory course for the first year of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Specialty of the Master in Computer Science. It is also open to students from other specialties of the Master in Computer Science of Université Paris-Saclay and to the students of the Interaction, Graphics and Design Masters of Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

The course gives an overview of the field of human-computer interaction, including a review of interaction styles, basic elements of psychology and software engineering for HCI, an in-depth analysis of graphical interaction and the notion of conceptual modeling. It is complemented by the Fundamentals of HCI 2 course.

This page and its content are solely for students enrolled in the 2025-2026 HCI Masters at Université Paris-Saclay. It contains instructor's material (slides and audio/video recordings) that are not to be distributed without the author's written consent, and copyrighted materials (such as articles) that are only made available under the fair use exception to copyright law.

Week 1 — 2 September 2025 — Introduction

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Readings for Introduction

Week 2 — 9 September 2025 — Interaction styles

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Recordings

Readings in Interaction Styles

Videos about Gesture-based Interaction

Videos about other Interaction Styles

Week 3 — 16 September 2025 — Psychology 101

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Recording

Videos shown in class

Readings in Psychology

General psychology:

Visual system:

Visual illusions:

Auditory illusion:

Motor system:

Cognition:

Cognitive biases (general):

Cognitive biases in HCI:

Humans and AI:

Week 4 — 23 September 2025 — Psychology 101 / Graphical interaction (part 1)

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Recordings

Videos shown in class

Additional resources

Week 5 — 30 September 2025 — (NO LECTURE)

Week 6 — 7 October 2025 — Graphical interaction (part 2) / Conceptual Modeling

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Recordings

Videos shown in class

Additional resources

Readings on conceptual modeling

Week 7 — 14 October 2025 — Design principles

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Recordings

Readings on planar maps

Videos shown in class