Designing Human-Computer Interaction (6389.7)

Required texts

The following books will be used to teach required content: "Benyon, David. 2019. Designing User Experience, A guide to HCI, UX and interaction design, PEARSON." and "Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, Jennifer Preece, 2023. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. Wiley". 

Both books are available online through the unit Reading List. Rogers et al. (2023) has been ordered by the library for short-term loan and E-Text is available for purchase from the Campus Bookshop.

Links to reference material will be provided on the unit website. Online databases provide further reference material, in particular, the journals of the ACM accessible through the UC Library portal. Another good starting point is an HCI bibliography at http://www.hcibib.org/ .

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Artificial intelligence

• Permitted - The ethical use of GenAI is allowed in completing the assessment. More detailed information can be found at GenAI and Assessment at UC 

Special assessment requirements

To PASS this unit, students have to aggregate a minimum of 50% over all  assessment items.

Higher grades will be awarded on the basis of the total mark being ≥ 65% for a credit, ≥ 75% for a distinction and ≥ 85% for a high distinction. Some scaling of marks and academic judgement may be applied to determine students' final grades - in this process no student will be disadvantaged.

In the case of any assignment that places you in jeopardy of a Fail in the whole unit, appropriate moderation procedures will be used.

If there is any doubt with regard to the requirements of any particular assignments or assessment procedure, the onus for clarifying the issue rests with the student who should contact the unit convener about the matter.

All work quoted from any source should be appropriately referenced using a recognized style, the "Harvard" referencing style as described in the link below (note that there are multiple version of the Harvard referencing style, and you should use the one described here) is preferred.

http://canberra.libguides.com/referencing

Students who are not familiar with referencing academic work should undertake the Academic Integrity Module.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

The following is a guide that may help you plan your semester's effort levels:

Lectures 2hrs = 24hrs

Tutorials 1hrs * 10 Weeks= 10hrs

PACT analysis = 22hrs

Conducting a Design Review= 24hrs

Poster and Design Package = 28hrs

Evaluation Instrument =22hrs

Weekly independent study, tutorial attendance, tutorial submissions = 18hrs

Peer review marks = 2 hrs

Total = 150 hrs

Participation requirements

The lecture slides and other material are published on the website. You are strongly advised to attend and listen to all lectures and to fully participate in all tutorials. The tutorials are particularly important because there is recurring and ongoing work throughout the unit. For online students, you will complete the tutorial exercise independently. You will be required to submit responses to tutorial exercises individually to Canvas in order to receive marks.'

Announcements made in lectures or published using the website are deemed to have been heard and read by all students in the unit.

Required IT skills

You are expected to be a competent computer user and familiar with word processing, presentation software, pdf and project packages or similar in this unit. All assignments are expected to be submitted electronically in Canvas and in one of Microsoft Office, Open Office or Star Office formats; unless specifically stated otherwise.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None.

• Semester 1, 2026, Online real-time, UC - Canberra, Bruce (234601)
• Semester 1, 2026, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (234420)