Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction 1

Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction 1
2024-2025

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 3:15pm-4:45pm - map
Teaching Assistants: Capucine Nghiem and Behnoosh Mohammadzadeh


Week 1: Lecture Tuesday 3 September, 2pm-3:30pm, E107 / TA 3:45pm-5:15pm, E107
Week 2: Lecture Tuesday 10 September, 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:15pm-4:45pm, E107
Week 3: Lecture Tuesday 17 September, 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:15pm-4:45pm, E107
Week 4: Lecture Tuesday 24 September, 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:15pm-4:45pm, E107
Week 5: Lecture Tuesday 1 October, 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:15pm-4:45pm, E107
Week 6: Lecture Tuesday 8 October, 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:15pm-4:45pm, E107
No class the week of October 14
Week 7: Lecture Tuesday 21 October, 1:30pm-3pm, E107 / TA 3:15pm-4:45pm, 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 2024-2025 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 — 3 September 2024 — Introduction

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Readings for Introduction

Week 2 — 10 September 2024 — Interaction styles

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Recordings

Readings in Interaction Styles

Videos about Gesture-based Interaction

Videos about other Interaction Styles

Week 3 — 17 September 2024 — Psychology 101

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Recording

Videos shown in class

Readings in Psychology

General psychology:

Visual system:

Visual illusions:

Auditory illusion:

Motor system:

Cognitive biases (general):

Cognitive biases in HCI:

Week 4 — 24 September 2024 — Graphical interaction (part 1)

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Recordings

Videos shown in class

Additional resources

Week 5 — 1 October 2024 — Graphical interaction (part 2)

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Recordings

Videos shown in class

Additional resources

Week 6 — 8 October 2024 — Conceptual Modeling

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Recordings

Readings

Week 7 — 22 October 2024 — Design principles

Handouts

Readings on planar maps

Videos shown in class