User centered design - basics

Instructions

1. Familiarize yourself with the objectives of the Graphical user interfaces lectures and requirements for absolving the course.
2. Find members for your four member team for assignments A and B and report them to the lecturer.
3. Task: Design the most unusable universal remote control (assignment A) through discussion.
   Requirements:

   • Remote control should control multiple devices in the household, for example TV, radio etc.
   • In is required to violate basic HCI rules (mentioned in the module introduction).

   You will be working in teams (four member). Use knowledge from the introduction of this module, classes or internet. You can ask the lecturer for opinions.

   Note: You can use wide scale of modern materials and components, devices and sensor, like: gyroscope, movement sensors (for example: kinect), touch screens, touch gestures, transparent or bendable materials, speech control, speech recognision, eye-tracking, compass etc.
   Challenge is in supporting special functions, not just basics like adjusting volume or channels on the TV.

   Warning: There is a fine line between assignment and nonsense, assignment meant as a joke will not be accepted. It should be possible to construct your remote control (at least teoreticaly), it should control at least 3 devices and it should at least remotely look like a universal controller.
4. Task: Submit assignment A through the Moodle system before next week.

   Assignment is to be submitted as two-page PDF document:

   • 1x A4 image/images of the created remote control,
   • 1x A4 short description of properties and functions of the device in indents and description of the broken HCI rules.

   Note: The assignment is submitted by one member of the team.

   Assignment needs to be submitted into Moodle system before the start of the next lecture and it needs to be presented on that lecture. It is important to clearly state the violation of different HCI rules during the presentation. Each member of the group has to present his contribution on the assignment.