WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION?
In this course, the SLP assignments for each Module will involve a couple of approaches. Some will entail description and assessment of your own experiences with different kinds of software. We'll begin this module with a fairly simple exercise to get you familiar with the idea of assessing and learning about software. Other project assignments will call for you to visit and review websites and other professional resources.
You undoubtedly use many different kinds of software, some of them widely used (for example, Microsoft Word), some probably much less common, some of them perhaps proprietary to your company or even classified. Some of them you're going to be very familiar with; others, particularly those you don't use very often, may be more confusing and less easy to apply. The odds are, however, that you probably don't know much about it aside from how to do the things you do frequently.
SLP Assignment Expectations
For this exercise, please select one software package that you use fairly frequently, and feel reasonably comfortable with. Be sure it is not classified, so that you can write freely about it.
Then please prepare a paper addressing these topics.
- What it is and does, and who makes it
- Its approach to Human-Computer Interaction (like Graphical User Interface or Menu-driven etc.).
- The overall effectiveness of the user interface
- Any improvements that you think might be made in it, and what they would accomplish.