1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

IT906 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
12.5 credit points @2 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: combination of lectures, seminars and laboratory
sessions Assessment: two assignments and a final
examination
A subject in the Master of Information Technology.
0 b jectives
To appreciate the need for, and the role and characteristics
of, human-computer interaction.
Content
Introduction points of view, scope and objectives of HCI,
metamodels of HCI; HCI technology human-machine fit
and adaptation, the user interface useability and its
components, input/output devices, interface objects,
dialogue styles, genre, architecture, enhanced/adaptive
interaction; HCI theory: modelling psychological
foundations of user interfaces, types of uses, human
information processing, language, communication and
interaction, formal models, cognitive models, social models,
ergonomic models, applications; HCI research methods
experiments and experimental design, measurement in the
behavioural sciences, data collection methods, data analysis
methods; HCI application: organisational impact; HCI
future developments.
Textbooks
To be advised.
IT91 1 Software Process 2
12.5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn @
Prerequisite: IT901 Software Process 1 Assessment: tests,
laboratory work, assignments and final examination
A subject in the Master of Information Technology.
0 bjectives
The subject continues to explore issues raised in IT901
Software Process 1, adding the objectives:
To study the process management issues which span
projects which undertake to engineer large-scale
software systems. Special emphasis is given to issues
surrounding the management of software development
within the object-oriented paradigm
To study software engineering environments, providing
students with experience working in select
environments
$ Content
3. Part 3: Process Management Issues (Peopleware;
Gr
Risk Management; Software Standards; Software Metrics;
Software Configuration Management; Software Quality
Management).
Part 4: Software Engineering Environments (including
laboratory experience).
Recommended Reading
Boehm, B.W. Sofware Risk Management, IEEE Computer Society
DeMarco, T. and Lister T., Peopleware, Dorset House
Fenton, N.E., Software Metn'cs, Chapman & Hall
Fenton, N.E. Software Quality Assurance and Measurement,
Chapman & Hall
Humphrey, W.S. Managing the Software Process. Addison-Wesley.
Yourdon, E.'Decline and Fall of the American Programmer,
Yourdon Press
IT91 6
Programming the User Interface
12.5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: combination of lectures, seminars and laboratory
sessions Assessment: two assignments and a final
examination
A subject in the Master of Information Technology.
0 bjedives
To introduce the concepts and techniques relevant to
programming the user interface.
Content
Concepts independence (application, device, user);
programming menus, command-based systems, data input,
giving information back to the user, screen techniques, using
colour, direct manipulation systems and environments,
event based programming, Windows and UIMS, help
systems, handling and avoiding errors; tools UNIX PC and
Macintosh platforms, function libraries, special purpose
programming languages, interactive editors, application
specific user interface programming languages, user interface
management systems.
IT921 Object Technology 1
12.5 Credit Points 8 hours per week for 4 weeks, then 2
hours per week for 13 weeks. Hawthorn. @Prerequisites:
Nil; although some knowledge of Ct t is desirable
@Assessment: Individual and/or team assignments and
examination
A subject in the Master of Information Technology.
Ob jectives
Introduction to Object Oriented (00) software engineering
with most emphasis on analysis, but also including
programming, design and database.
Content
Introduction to programming in C + +
Introduction to Object Oriented concepts
Detailed study of a contemporary Object Oriented
Analysis method
Introduction to Object Oriented Design
Comparison of Object Oriented Analysis and Design
methods
Introduction to Object Oriented Databases
Recommended Reading
Rumbaugh, J. et al, Olject Oriented Modeling and Design. New
Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1991