Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (H) gives students an overview of the interaction challenges and opportunities associated with mobile and ubiquitous computing.

3 hours per week.

Mobile Human Computer Interaction (M)

Mobile Human Computer Interaction for MSc

None 

Exam worth 60%.

Set exercise is typically a group coursework project worth 40%.

This course aims to introduce the challenges of developing interactive systems for mobile computing devices, e.g., mobile phones and wearable computers. Students will learn about challenging aspects of mobile interaction contexts, e.g., device movement, situational impairments, social acceptability. This course will introduce interaction design concepts like prototyping and evaluation through user studies. This is not intended as a mobile application development course but will briefly introduce core concepts and methods for prototyping novel interactions.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Explain problems associated with human-computer interaction in mobile and ubiquitous usage contexts.

2. Critically analyse a proposed mobile interactive system considering its intended usage context.

3. Design usable mobile interactive systems for a given problem or application area.

4. Develop and evaluate prototypes of mobile interactive systems using a variety of prototyping methods and evaluation techniques.

5. Discuss cutting edge developments in mobile human-computer interaction, such as context-aware systems, sensor-based interaction, location-based interaction, and mixed reality.