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CS-538 Human Performance Engineering

Spring 2008
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Welcome to the Spring 2008 offering of the CSCI 538 - Human Performance Engineering Course! This iteration of CS-538 has been completely revised based on feedback and lessons learnt from our first offering of this course in Spring 2007. Please refer back to this webpage for constant updates.

As in the past semesters, we encourage students to feel free to provide feedback and suggestions that can help us improve this course. Please refer to the contact information on ways through which you can reach us.

 

 

Course Description

This course addresses tools and techniques for addressing issues related to of Human Performance Engineering (HPE) of computing systems. The graduate Computer Science and Computer Engineering major will gain a strong background on how user computer interaction can affect human operator performance, learning to avoid typical pitfalls to enhance the user experience. Students will understand HPE as it relates to games, immersive environments and other real-time (immediate response) applications. Apply lessons learned in class to project integrated into lectures and discussion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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