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INTERACTION/INTERFACE
ACMP 446/ SOEN 426/COMP 401
Sept/Dec 2020
Introduction
Mzee Awuor
Background
fawuor@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke
Background
Tell a story about the last activity that you tried for the
first time?
o Was it exciting or scary?
o How did being a novice help you?
What This Course Is About?
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Course Activities
• The weakly reading assignments are to be submitted before
the next class
• There are 6 tutorial readings for this class
• All submissions are to be made to the LMS
• Class reps populate the list of students who do not have the
LMS accounts
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Introduction
Interactive Design
Good and Bad Design Case Studies
Please read the following extracts from Rogers Y. et al. (2012), watch the video link therein,
and try to think about responses to the questions highlighted in the extracts (Reading_1.pdf)
Goal: Useful Design
• All roads lead to Rome
• The ultimate goal of human-centered computing is to create
useful designs that benefit people
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Part I
Overview of Human Centric Design (Human Computer Interaction/Interface)
Introduction
How might we
solve water
problem in
rural Kenya 17
3 Phases in human-centered design process
What is Human Centered Design ?
What can I use human-centered design for?
What can I use human-centered design for?
What can I use human-centered design for?
What can I use human-centered design for?
Innovation
Empathy
Test Define
Prototype Ideate
Discovery
Evolution Interpretation
Experimentation Ideation
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Synthesis Framework
If you only
remember a few
things…
Part II
Form a Team of 3-4 people
Identify a Problem (Challenge that you will work on through out this course)
Submit (group leader) the name of the group and the group members to Moodl
before next class
Choose your Design Challenge
More Challenges
Staff Publication Repository
University Alumni Project
Staff and Student Birthday Reminder
Large-Scale Surveillance of Crop Pests and Diseases
Talent Audition Pre-qualification
Where to Locate Business
Covid-19 digital response
Kaggle Challenge
…. etc etc.
Possible Projects
fawuor@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke