Seminars in Software and Services

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Seminari di Software e Servizi nella Società dell’Informazione)

A.A. 2008/2009 

Who is the responsible of the course. Prof. Tiziana Catarci
For whom is this course. This 6 credits course is for the students of the Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica (Facoltà di Ingegneria) and the Master in Computer Engineering (School of Engineering) of the Sapienza Università di Roma. For the Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica, this course is one of the characterizing courses of the section "Software and services for the information society" (indirizzo "Software e servizi per la società dell’informazione").
Which is the structure of the course. The course is structured in 2 sections, which are described below. Each section corresponds to 3 credits, is constituted by approximately 30 lectures and is taught by a professor.

When and where are the lectures scheduled? Lectures are scheduled in the second semester, from March 6th to May 29th, on friday 2:00pm-5:15pm, room A3, via Ariosto 25, groundfloor.

•           Section 1: Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
• Teacher: Prof. Tiziana Catarci
• Number of credits: 3
• Lectures: Second semester
• Programme: Technical advances in recent years, including the advent of a networked society, have given rise to a number of different types of computing systems and devices that enable novel forms of interaction and thus new models and paradigms for studying and designing them.  Changes are happening in several respects, including the physical and social levels, with on one side devices that are wearable and mobile or even transparent to the user, and on the other side disappearing distinction between work and leisure, increasing importance of social interaction, growing user diversity, including people with different abilities, various cultures and social norms. This section will present an overview of the main issues and related design innovations in HCI deriving from all the above, such as mobile and cooperative interaction, online communities, entertainment design, user-adaptive systems, etc., also covering recent theoretical and conceptual models underlying them.
• Additional information: see the web site

 

• Section 2: User Interfaces Beyond the Office Desk
  • Teacher: Prof. Alan Dix , Lancaster University, UK
  • Number of credits: 3
  • Lectures: Second semester
  • Programme: For a long period 'serious' computers were used primarily for work purposes and user interface design was principally about PCs on office desks. While these office applications are still of great importance, as discussed in section 1, computers are now found not just in the office, but permeate our whole lives. In this section we will look at several areas where the computer has 'escaped' the office desktop: ubiquitous computing, where computation is embedded into the physical environment and the idea of 'an interface' is hard to pin down; the physical aspects of devices, where the digital user interface blends with product design; the importance of considering emotion in design; and the relationship between product design and market uptake. These issues will be addressed from a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives.
  • Additional information: see the web site

 

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