INFR 4355U – Empirical Evaluation of Interactive Systems

The focus of this course is on evaluating usability and usefulness of interactive systems in comparative experiments. This will be done through the study of HCI research methodology, the scientific foundations behind it, designing the experiments and their procedures and analyzing the results using inferential statistics. The students will learn how to analyze the data from the experiments using the R or Python programming languages.

Although the context of the course will be positioned within the domain of video game research, the skills learned in this course are transferable to other domains, allowing students to pursue careers not only in Games User Research but usability research in general.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5
Prerequisite(s): INFR 3350U
Experiential learning: Yes