HCI & Usability Assignment

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BSC (HONS) IN COMPUTING

In-course Assignment Information Sheet

Human Computer Interaction & Usability

Assignment Interface Design Assignment
Subject Intakes Date Assigned Date Due Lecturer Submission : : : : : : Softcopy & Hardcopy Human Computer Interaction & Usability

Assignment Overview You are to complete one piece of intensive course work for the module HCIU which is worth 50% of the module overall marks. The incourse work is to be completed as a piece of cooperative and collaborative group work. You need to work in a team of 3 members, or in exceptional cases, 4 members. You are required to create an interactive application using an authoring tool of your choice. Do note that the purpose of this assignment focuses on the user interface and what goes into the entire design process that will give it a certain look and feel. A fully functional system is not expected to be produced. However, some limited functionality (such as dummy output) is expected in order to demonstrate the ability of the system. Database backends are not necessary.

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First Stage At the initial stage of this project, the team members are to meet together and brainstorm for this project. As a team, you are required to submit your proposal which includes the following requirements; You need to draw a scheme of work that shows how and when your team will perform the usability engineering activities (as identified on page 3 of this document) Your plan should include details of the tasks (including meetings) that will be involved and what deliverables you will produce as the usability project proceeds, including the final report itself. You are advised to include some spare time in your plan for unforeseen events e.g. one or more team members being absent for short periods. Deliverable: You will be expected to walk through your plan with a module tutor during week 5 of the module (for up to 5% for the team of 3 and 8% for the team of 4 of the final marks see the Marking Scheme in page 4). You will need to make a 10-minute appointment to do this, normally during one of the usual timetabled slots. Once this proposal is approved then you and your team can move on to the second stage of the project where design, implementation, documentation and presentation will be scheduled.

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Second Stage Your team will work through the following usability engineering activities: User Requirement User Profiling/Stakeholder analysis Task analysis Usability Goals and Competitive Analysis Identifying usability principles used in the system Competitive Analysis Prototype and Walkthrough Storyboarding and description of each screen purpose and strategy behind its design Peer to peer evaluation Testing of Design Heuristic evaluation Help and documentation General Implementation Final presentation References Complete documentation must be produced to contain all the activities that the development team went through in producing the system. Complete and detailed research is required for each activity. As this is a group assignment, it is expected that the usability engineering activities are to be carried out together as a team. Each member must demonstrate knowledge and ability to explain each activity and the justifications of any decision made. Each member will be responsible for documenting one chosen usability engineering section. Throughout the development cycle, the team is required to discuss the progress of the project every two weeks. Documentation of the discussions is to be included as part of the submission together with a detailed workload matrix to show the participation of all group members. The workload matrix is to be signed off by each team member.

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Marking scheme for the team of three (3) Marks will be accorded to the team members for all work carried out in their respective section. The following are the marks that are to be awarded to each team member for the work done by the entire group. Group Plan Walkthrough Testing of Design Heuristic evaluation, help and documentation Presentation: Demonstration of the final prototype Overall achievement of the learning outcome: Understanding of the overall HCI consideration for the project Marks (30%) 5 15 5 5

The following are the marks that are to be awarded to each team member for the work done for their respective section. User Profiling Marks (70%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application of User Requirements: 50 To include the selection of data gathering methods the actual user profiling process performed the impact of user profiling results task analysis Usability Goals and Competitive Analysis Marks (70%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application: 50 To include the selection of design principles the selection of usability goals competitive analysis

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Prototype and Walkthrough Marks (70%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application: 50 To include storyboarding each screen purpose and strategy behind its design peer to peer evaluation and its impact on the design

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Marking scheme for the team of four (4) The following are the marks that are to be awarded to each team member for the work done by the entire group. Group Plan Walkthrough Presentation: Demonstration of the final prototype Overall achievement of the learning outcome: Understanding of the overall HCI consideration in the project Marks (20%) 8 6 6

The following are the marks that are to be awarded to each team member for the work done for their respective section. User Profiling Marks (80%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application of User Requirements: 60 To include the selection of data gathering methods the actual user profiling process performed the impact of user profiling results task analysis Usability Goals and Competitive Analysis Marks (80%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application: 60 To include the selection of design principles the selection of usability goals competitive analysis

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Prototype and Walkthrough Marks (80%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application: 60 To include storyboarding each screen purpose and strategy behind its design peer to peer evaluation and its impact on the design Testing of Design Marks (80%) Research and References: 20 Use of research to support decision making (appropriate use of citations and references) Critical Discussion and Application: 60 To include on heuristic evaluation performed on the impact of the results to the final prototype on help and documentation

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