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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This unit shows the importance of designing easy-to-use Web-based applications. Topics include the underlying theories of human-computer interaction, design principles, guidelines, evaluation, and social and individual impact. Practical hands-on include the design, development and testing of a Web-based application using contemporary software development tools.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: COIT11222 Programming Fundamentals
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
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Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Foster more student interaction.
Explore the use of interactive learning tools, such as coding simulators or web development sandboxes, which can encourage collaborative and engaging learning experiences among students.
Feedback from Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Web design could material could start earlier.
Consider introducing HTML by Week 4 and shifting the current Week 4 materials, which focus on Usability Testing, to the last week. This change could facilitate an earlier start on the final assessment.
- Describe the relationship between human computer interaction and interaction design
- Demonstrate the main principles of interactive design through critical evaluation of an appropriate interactive Web-based application.
- Demonstrate how human-computer interaction design and development methods are employed during the development of human-computer interaction prototypes and end user testing.
- Apply the knowledge of human-computer interaction design and development methods in the construction of a small interactive Web-based application.
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skill sets required in using appropriate software tools in the development of interactive Web-based application.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries
and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and
role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:
- User experience analysis (UNAN)
- User experience evaluation (USEV)
- Information content publishing (ICPM)
- Program ming/software development (PROG)
- Testing (TEST)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 35% | |||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 45% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 45% | ||||||||||