Usability Engineering

About the Course:Rapid growth of Information and Communication technologies has given opportunities to various startups, to introduce smart products/applications in our ecosystem. In the era of globalization, competition across startups, specifically products are huge and if any start up or product fails to attract loyal consumer base, it is doomed to collapse. In order to ensure enhanced consumer interaction and their loyalty, aspects of human factors need to be engineered into these products. This is where Usability Engineering comes into existence. Usability focuses on qualitative and quantitative aspects of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specified users achieve specified goals in particular environments. This is a detailed basic level course that would focus on users psycho social and cognitive parameters, frameworks to capture and identify consumer/users individual parameters and ways to design and conceptualize functional products around them.INTENDED AUDIENCE : B.Tech, B.Des, BCA, M.Tech, M.Des, MCA. PREREQUISITES :NilINDUSTRY SUPPORT :All software industries, Robotics Industries, Industrial Design Industries, MSME

Week 1:Introduction to Usability Engineering Week 2:Usability in Software Development Week 3:User Centered design processes Week 4:Requirement Analysis-I Week 5:Requirement Analysis-II Week 6:Requirement Analysis- III Week 7:Cognitive issues Week 8:Competitive Analysis and Preparing for Design Briefing Week 9:Conceptualization and Prototyping-I Week 10:Conceptualization and Prototyping-II Week 11:Usability Heuristics and Testing-I Week 12:Usability Heuristics and Testing-II