Lecture

Persona Construction and User Interface Design

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CS-486: Interaction design

This course focuses on goal-directed design and interaction design, two subjects treated in depth in the Cooper book (see reference below). To practice these two methods, we propose a design challenge, which is further divided into mini-projects evenly spa ...

Description

This lecture focuses on the construction of personas based on real subjects observed during qualitative research, aiming to improve user interface design for ticket machines, ski pass kiosks, and metro maps. It covers setting goals, identifying improvements, and the importance of persona hypotheses.

Instructor

Pearl Pu Faltings

Expertise Human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, user experience research, user modeling, preference-based search, intelligent user interfaces, information visualization. Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Denis Lalanne, Georgios Melissargos, Frank Paul Janecek, Li Chen, Jiyong Zhang, Nicolas Jones, Rong Hu, Yu Chen, Valentina Sintsova, Onur Yürüten, Yubo Xie, Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Kalpani Anuradha Welivita Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Marina Boia, Igor Kulev Courses Interaction

Official source

Ontological neighbourhood

Computer engineering

Software development: Human–computer interaction

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