151818936 HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES? (HMI) ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

HMI is an interdisciplinary course concerned with the study of the interaction between humans and interactive computing systems including process control systems, handheld devices, human-machine systems etc. Moreover, it discusses the overall HMI design process and how that process relates to system design. In addition to covering topics in engineering and computer sciences such as control systems, automation systems, operating systems, multimedia, image processing, knowledge-based systems etc., the course looks at major cognitive and social phenomena surrounding human use of computers and systems with the goal of understanding their impact and creating guidelines for the design and evaluation of such systems for industrial control and monitoring systems such as distributed control, supervisory control and data acquisition, and stand-alone. Course Objectives The main objectives of the course are to introduce students the concepts and design mechanism of the human machine interface as well as the design methods and to explore the scientific methods and design principles to different kind of human machine interface with emphasis on the identification of the strategies and evaluation standards in satisfying a set of given requirements to user interface design.