BMI Course Information
BMI 591 Human Computer Interaction in Biomedicine (3)
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Fall 2009 |
Course not offered |
Spring 2009 |
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Catalog Description
User interface design, development and evaluation for health information systems, medical simulation systems, medical devices, consumer health web sites, and other healthcare related systems.
Prerequisites
Admission to any SCI graduate program
Course Learning Outcomes
Students will have the opportunity to learn the fundamental principles of human-computer interaction and human factors and learn how to apply them to real world problems through class projects, homework and real-world design. The focus is on learning why user-friendly interfaces can greatly improve work productivity and enhance the quality of healthcare without radically changing the underlying technology.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Identify good and bad aspects of a user interface as related to medical applications
- Understand the fundamentals of multimodal HCI Design
- Perform user analysis to identify user characteristics that need to be addressed in HCI design
- Explain the benefits of HCI guidelines, principle, and theories and adoption of these principles in hospitals and medical centers
- Use various HCI design and prototyping techniques
- Understand the importance of the interdisciplinary cooperation in HCI design
- Identify and implement several formal usability testing techniques, and compare their costs and benefits
- Describe factors that need to be taken into consideration when creating groupware
- Implement user-friendly Graphic User Interfaces in a team environment
- esign a user interface that promotes ease of localization
Major Topics and Time Covered
- Human Side of Human-Computer Interaction
- The Life Cycle of Interface Design
- User and Task Analysis
- Representational Analysis
- Usability Evaluation
- Design for Graphical User Interface
- Design for Web
- Design for Natural Language Interface and Input Devices
- Simulation Design
- Design for Medical Errors
- Design for Multimedia
- Design for Groups: CSCW
- Design for EMR
- Design for PDA