HCI This is a hands-on exercise on the design and prototyping of a system, which is the first step in an iterative user-centered system design. To begin with, you are required to know the intended users, their tasks, and the working context of their actions. Only then do you consider what the actual system design should look like, where you would base the design on real people, real tasks, and real needs. User centered system design is not an academic process where some cookbook formula can be applied. Nor is it an intuitive process where a programmer can sit in their office and think they know what the user and their tasks are. Rather, it is a hands-on process that requires you to go out and identify actual users, talk to them about what tasks they are trying to do, and understand the entire context of their work. You then base your designs on this information. Because your initial designs will be crude and problem-prone, you will have to identify potential usability problems by continually evaluating your design and by crafting new designs. This is called iterative design. In this project, you will begin your iterative design of a particular system using task-centered system design methods and low fidelity prototyping methods. The immediate purpose of this project is to give you experience at: articulating good task descriptions using the task descriptions to decide upon system requirements, brainstorming low fidelity prototypes based upon the above, and The outcome of this project on task-centered system design is a design portfolio containing: a list describing expected users of the system and their work contexts, a list of actual, representative tasks that people are expected to do, a prioritized list of system requirements, design of the system, and a mid- fidelity prototype What to design Brainstorm for ideas!!!

Section 1: User, Tasks and requirements Activity #1: Project Brainstorming Read articles/ research papers on HCI (tips: try to focus on specific issues such as HCI for older adults, HCI for special needs user etc). Brainstorm with your team members for ideas. Pick three different project ideas that you would be interested in working on for a team project, make a rough sketch of a user interface and write a proposal for each (NOT MORE THAN 3 PAGES EACH), further elaborating the idea.