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HI 5354 Cognitive Engineering in Health Informatics I
Course Type:
research
Credit Hours:
3
This course focuses on cognitive engineering techniques for designing user-centered health information systems. Such systems provide appropriate functionality to the user, are easy to use and learn, reduce the chance of user error, and increase user efficiency. The course emphasizes how human cognitive abilities and limitations impose requirements on the design of effective interfaces. It covers the theory and practical application of several cognitive engineering techniques, including cognitive task analysis, verbal protocol analysis, propositional analysis, and cognitive walkthroughs.
Course Objectives
- Learn to conduct cognitive task analyses
- Study the role of verbal protocols as experimental data for understanding human cognition
- Collect and analyze verbal protocol data.
- Use verbal protocols to construct a cognitive model
- Study the role of eye-movements as experimental data for understanding human cognition
- Learn to collect and analyze eye-movement data.
- Understand the role of cognitive models in interface design, decision support, and teaching and learning.
- Develop a deeper understand of the human cognitive architecture, its strengths and weaknesses.
- Develop a cognitive model of a complex medical task.
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor, highspeed internet access, personal computer
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