This course addresses concepts and
methods of needs and usability assessment. The emphasis will
be on understanding users' needs and practices and translating
them into design decisions. Topics to be covered include:
methods of identifying and describing user needs and requirements;
user centered design; and evaluation of information systems.
We will practice a number of major usability assessment methods,
including heuristic evaluation, surveys and focus groups,
and naturalistic/ ethnographic methods. Finally, we will discuss
methods of bringing needs and usability assessment into the
design process.
This course is appropriate for both 1st and 2nd-year MIMS
students, and for students from other departments with a strong
interest in user-based design and assessment, with the instructor's
permission. Students will complete at least one major group
project related to needs assessment and evaluation. Second-year
MIMS students may use this project to meet their capping project
requirement.
(Course description copied from the official SIMS InfoSys214
web site.)
InfoSys
204 or consent of instructor.
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