HI 6309 Healthcare Interface Design

This course covers topics of user interface design for health information systems, medical devices, consumer health web sites, and other healthcare related systems. Students will have the opportunity to learn the fundamental principles of human-computer interaction and human factors and learn how to apply them to real world problems through class projects. The focus is on learning why user-friendly interfaces can greatly improve work productivity and enhance the quality of healthcare without radically changing the underlying technology.

This class is online.

Course Objectives

• Master the fundamental phenomena, theories, principles, methodologies, and techniques in the design of human-computer interfaces.
• Master the skills of evaluating existing user interfaces and designing new human-centered interfaces.

Topics

• Human Side of Human-Computer Interaction
• The Life Cycle of Interface Design
• User and Task Analysis
• Representational Analysis
• Usability Evaluation
• Design for Graphical User Interface
• Design for Web
• Design for Natural Language Interface and Input Devices
• Design for Medical Errors
• Design for Multimedia
• Design for Groups: CSCW
• Design for EMR
• Design for PDA

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor, highspeed internet access, personal computer