SWE 549: Software Usability Engineering

Introduction and background of Software Usability engineering concepts. This includes measuring usability, Heuristic evaluation, Video recorded evaluation, Task analysis, Cognitive walkthroughs and ethics, Experimentation, Internationalization, Accessibility - Usability for the Disabled, use of the different state-of-the-art tools for usability evaluation, and finally, integration of usability engineering into the software engineering lifecycle. This course will also focus on the different aspects of Human-Computer Interaction from the perspective of user interface design and analysis.