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in Czech Republic at Czech Technical University in Prague
Track Is Running within Open Informatics Study Program

User Interface Design

The aim of the course is to teach students principles of user interface design based on User centered design methodology (UCD - ISO 9241-210). Students will become familiar with methods for information, interaction, visual and user experience design of user interfaces. Students will gain theoretical background of mental models of users, methods for formal description of interaction between human and computer and design of multimodal user interfaces. During the course students will get familiar with various prototyping techniques.

Psychology in HCI

The aim of the course is that students will master all phases of the research process starting from initial planning up to the translation of their observations into innovative design concepts, so they are able to run applied research projects themselves. Overall the emphasis is laid on practitioner’s approach and developing skills needed for adopting these technique in daily design practice across various domains. Students will become familiar with selected psychological topics - mainly from the field of Cognitive Psychology and Personality Psychology.

Visualization

The aim of the course is to teach students the skills needed to design and implement applications that allow users to gain deeper understanding of the displayed data. The students will become familiar with the principles of data visualization and with the methods to visualize various types of data (including the methods for information visualization as well as the methods for scientific visualization). Examples of good and bad designs of data visualizations will be given. During the course, students will acquire practical experience with selected visualization methods, and design and implement their own visualizations of selected data.

Spatial Design

Course aim is to evoke interest in shape, material and its spatial characteristic with help of sophisticated spatial tasks and studies. It is not intended to educate a sculptor or designer. Another aspect is to turn students' attention from restricted form of flat computer screens towards free real space and let them by means of basic techniques like drawing and modeling to create spontaneously. Students will be confronted with basic composition and form creation principles of Gestalt psychology. Student will verify knowledge gained by means of sophisticated composition tasks. This course will take place in the sculptural and design workshop of Faculty of Architecture.

Software Quality Assurance

The aim of the course is to teach students efficient techniques of software testing and quality assurance. The main focus of the course is automation of software testing on various levels, including automated design of test cases. After overview of principles and methodology of testing, the students learn various techniques for creation of test cases from the model of tested application. Using these techniques and respective design patterns, the students will get familiar with advanced structuring of unit tests, automated integration tests and automated tests based on simulation of user's actions in user interface of tested applications. The final part of the course is dedicated to introduction to formal verifications and model checking techniques.

Statistical Data Analysis

The aim of this course is to introduce statistical approaches to data analysis. This course focuses on exploratory and confirmatory statistical analysis. The students will become familiar with statistical methods needed for preparation of an experiment (e.g., estimation of number of participants based on expected confidential level) and later analysis of gathered data.