Department of Computer Science

Survey of user-interface systems: includes command language, windowing, multiple input/output devices, architecture of User Interface Management Systems, toolkits for designing user-interface, Human Factors, Standards, Visual Languages. The course also includes discussion of emerging technologies, such as systems for cooperative work, physically distributed user-interfaces, parallelism and user-interfaces, virtual reality. A substantial project requiring the design, implementation and evaluation of a user-interface will be required.