Course overview
This course will engage students in the current research in interactive and virtual environments. They will learn what the current challenges are in the research area and apply that learning to writing papers and learn the research process for human computer interaction. Students will leave this course with a strong background in how to undertake research in research groups that have a strong human computer interaction focus such as the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the current state of the art in HCI research
- Evaluate the worthiness of a research document
- Apply a research methodology, documenting its outcomes
- Construct an experiment in HCI
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