USABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

Students are introduced to the area of human-computer interaction (HCI) with a main focus on interaction with online media, interactive installations and information systems. State-of-the-art methods of usability engineering and user-cantered design are shown and applied and further discussion deepens the student's understanding of the areas of application and underlying technologies, devices and concepts. An important part of usability engineering is accessibility through which people with special needs and special hardware devices are enabled to access information systems. It is necessary, that students use electronic bulletin boards, work in virtual cross country teams and work on different seminar papers.