HI 6301 Health Data Display

This course will examine the evaluation and design of information displays for healthcare. The course will focus on three areas: (1) theories and methodologies for the evaluation of information displays, (2) techniques and tools for generating effective information displays through visualization, (3) how the formats of information displays affect decision making in healthcare.

Course Objectives

• Understand the phenomena and issues of user interface design
• Learn to conduct human-centered system design
• Learn to conduct usability testing of user interfaces
• Learn the methodology of task analysis and representational analysis
• Learn the power of external representations
• Learn the principles of information visualization
• Gain application experience through a term project:
• Prepare a poster presentation and a web-ready final report for the term project.

 Topics

• Introduction & Organization
• Theories and Principles in Interface Design
• Cognitive Work Analysis
• Usability Testing
• Representational Analysis and Information Displays
• Human-Computer Interaction in Health Care
• Direct Interaction Displays
• Human Errors in Health Care
• Information Visualization
• Design of window components
• Hypermedia and the World Wide Web

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor, highspeed internet access, personal computer

Additional Information