Genesis Usability Testing Improvement and training-Usabiliy Syllabus

Usability Engineering & User Interaction Design

	Subject Title	Details
Day 01
(Session 01)	Intro to HCI	Need & role of HCI in product development
9:30 to 11.15		Usable & unusable products
		Cognitive understanding issues
Tea Break
(Session 02)	Usability Engineering	Usability engineering
11:15 to 1:30		Usability Methods
		Usability benefits
		SDLC process map
Lunch
(Session 03)	Understanding the user	User understanding, User needs.
2:15 to 4.00		User goals, Business goals, Usability goals.
		User modeling
		User Experience
		User surveys
		User mental maps, User experience.
Tea Break
(Session 04)	Hands on exercise	Users Exercise
4:15 to 6:15		Group assignment
		Group presentations & discussions
Day 02
(Session 05)	Interaction Design	Introduction to interaction design
9.30 to 11.15		Visual language
		Types of interaction.
		UI design procedure
		Paper models
Tea Break
(Session 06)	Hands on exercise	UI design exercise
11:15 to 1:30		Individual assignment.
		presentations & discussions.
Lunch
(Session 07)	Usability Testing	Usability measuring parameters
2:15 to 4.00		Usability testing methods
		Usability testing event.
Tea Break
(Session 08)	Hands on exercise	Students will be given an academic project and presentations will be given in the following week.
4:15 to 6.15
Lecture content is likely to update/change till the commencement of course