Week 4: Accessibility + HCI Concepts and Principles
This week we will explore how we can design interactive technologies that are accessible, inclusive and responsive to people's diverse needs and abilities. We will discuss accessible and inclusive design, considering factors that can create barriers to participation and how we can design technologies that accommodate human diversity. We then introduce three complementary HCI perspectives: human factors, Nielsen's usability heuristics and Morville's UX honeycomb. Together, these provide a foundation for understanding how people interact with technology, identifying usabilty problems and considering the broader qualities that contribute to a positive user experience. These concepts and principles will help you examine existing technologies and also help inform the design suggestions you develop for CW1.