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Applied Design of Software User Interfaces

Ok. Let's get this straight from the beginning: this class is difficult and demands a lot of your time. But, the other side of that is that you learn a lot of extremely useful information and gain some good experience. The format is shifted towards very applied skills; you do a project a week to apply the stuff you learned in class that week. If you put forth some effort and show that you care, you will do well.

The Professor, Mike Wiklund, is an executive at American Institute for Reseach, a HF consulting organization in MA. A lot of the projects stem from past work that Mike has done. Unlike other HCI courses you may take, this one also spends time on non-computer interfaces and dedicated-computer interfaces, like kiosks. I recommend this class if you are interested in human-machine interaction and are not taking a lot of other hard classes.

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