This is an interactive hands-on course that will teach students the principles of design at the individual level.

How can computing help make the world a better place? Can we avoid wars, alleviate homelessness and improve global health using computers? What are the technical challenges that arise and what humanistic issues have to be taken into account and understood in the process? In this second, expanded edition of the course, we continue to explore problems faced by developing countries and underserved populations from a computing perspective. The course will be project-centered with teams of students choosing project topics early in the semester and working towards a solution by the end of the semester.

Introduction to the range of issues across the HCC disciplines, including design and research methodologies: cognitive, social, and cultural theories; assessment and evaluation: ethical issues.

Examines usability in the software development process with an emphasis on usability, requirements, methodology, design, and evaluation.

Introduction to educational technology, with an emphasis on theoretical foundations. Introduces basic philosophies, approaches, and technologies. Analyzes issues surrounding technology's impact on education.

Technology is rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported, visualized, aggregated, summarized, distributed, and consumed. This class studies the computational technologies that impact journalism.

Introduction to the design of online communities. Students study an existing community in depth, and then develop a new community design.

Multidisciplinary perspectives on cognitive science. Interdisciplinary approaches to issues in cognition, including memory, language, problem solving, learning, perception, and action.

Study of computer visualization principles, techniques, and tools used for explaining and understanding symbolic, structured, and/or hierarchical information. Includes data and software visualization.

Introduction to computer-supported collaborative work, workflow automation, and meeting augmentation. The course deals with models, enabling technology, systems, and applications.

A hands-on course covering a range of cognitive modeling methodologies. It explores the analysis, development, construction, and evaluation of models of cognitive processing. Crosslisted with ISYE and PSYC 7790.

An interdisciplinary class to explore, research and design physical and virtual games that challenge and stimulate our intellectual and physical conditions, enhance skill building, social interactions, decision making and designing.

An interdisciplinary class to research and design for quality care and experience for patients, families, and care givers in healthcare settings.

Augmented Reality (AR) promises to be a key technology for the next generation of mobile phones; AR games combine 3D graphics with the player's view of the real world, typically overlaying the graphics on the video from the camera on the device. This fall we are again offering a 3 credit (2 lecture hours, 4 lab hours) handheld AR game design studio, in coordination with a class at SCAD-Atlanta. (We are scheduling lab time to ensure the SCAD and GT students have adequate time each week to work together). As with last year, students will work in small mixed GT/SCAD groups to prototype 3 or more handheld augmented reality games over the course of the semester. This course is open to grads and undergrads, and has a pre-req of CS 4455/8803 (Video Game Design): you must have experience designing and building some sort of game to take this class. This year, we will use cutting-edge technology: students will work with the Unity3D game engine (http://www.unity3d.com), on one or more of Mac/PC, iPhone or small Atom-based tablets. Students will gain extensive experience building mobile AR games in the Unity3D engine, programming and 3D game workflow, and knowledge of mobile AR technology. Permission of instructor, Blair MacIntyre (blair@cc.gatech.edu) required.

This course will focus on the emerging field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). This multidisciplinary research area draws from: Robotics, AI, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cognitive Psychology. The main goal of HRI is to enable robots to successfully interact with humans. As robots increasingly make their way into functional roles in everyday human environments (like homes, schools, and hospitals), we need them to be able to interact with everyday people. Moreover, a person working with a robot shouldn't be required to learn a new form of interaction. Thus, we need to develop computational models of social intelligence for these robots that will allow them to have interactions that are natural and intuitive for a human partner.

Provides a specific focus on the nature and structure of the US healthcare system; its endemic problems; past attempts to introduce clinical information technology into the system and why they have often failed; the current state of utilization of the technology; the contemporary technology challenges and likely future trends and opportunities in this exciting field.

From Twitter to Facebook and all the way back to email, social computing is one of the biggest forces on the internet. In this class, we will explore how and why social computing works. What's the right way to design social computing systems? What sense can you make out of all the data people leave behind? What's still out there to build?

Techniques for electronic game design and programming, including graphics game engines, motion generation, behavioral control for autonomous characters, interaction structure, social and interface issues of multi-user play, and the business aspects of game development.

Small-group or individual investigation of advanced topics in computing. Guided study and research.

This course focuses on the study of mass media from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives.

Explores the development of the representational power of the computer and the interplay between digital technology and culture.

Explores visual media through a mutually instructive and integrated interplay between critical analyses and the creation of digital artifacts.

Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues raised by technologies of representation through critical analyses and the creation of digital artifacts.

Design principles of exploiting the affordances of the digital medium, including large information spaces and procedural environments.

Issues in hypertextual and multimedia design in networked environments, including the World Wide Web, interactive television, and wireless applications.

Focuses on defining user and client needs, analysis of competing products, budgeting, scheduling and management of the production process, and the design of the testing process.

Students create interactive fictions in a variety of formats including intersecting story worlds, interactive characters, simulations, and replay worlds.

Students will develop the critical, intellectual, and creative tools necessary to understand, work with, and reimagine design at the developmental stages of emerging technologies.

Students examine constitutionally informed policy and pragmatic legal issues in intellectual property law, focusing on the effects of power structures and information digitization.

Focused topics in the theory and practice of game design, theory, and analysis, including issues of creation, and reception, such as a single sub-genre, procedural technique, or media tradition.

This course offers students the opportunity to work on focused research within existing long-term projects of the New Media Center (NMC).

Key traditions of media theory that contribute to the study of Digital Media.

Survey course on human cognition including pattern recognition, attention, memory, categorization, problem solving, consciousness, decision making, intention, and the relation between mind and brain.

Fundamental theory and research in social behavior including social perception/cognition, attitude formation and change, social influences, and group processes.

This course examines how sensations and perceptions of the outside world are processed by humans, including physiological, psychophysical, ecological, and computational perspectives.

Introduction to statistical methods as applied to psychological data within the HCI domain.

Introduction to statistical methods as applied to psychological data within the HCI domain.

This course covers the basic analysis techniques used to investigate human-machine systems and human performance.

This course covers the basic human factors principles involved in cognitive ergonomics.

This course covers the basic human factors principles involved in display formatting.

This course covers the basic human factors principles involved in controls and workspace layout.

This course presents current research topics in cognitive aging.

Describes the characteristics of interaction between humans and computers and demonstrates techniques for the evaluation of user-centered systems.

Human capabilities and limitations for learning and performing psychomotor and cognitive skills are studied.

Critical examination of current problems in a selected area of engineering psychology. Areas to be discussed may vary each time course is offered.

Students conduct research under the direction of a faculty member on problems in the general area of human-computer interaction.

An interdisciplinary class to explore, research and design physical and virtual games that challenge and stimulate our intellectual and physical conditions, enhance skill building, social interactions, decision-making and designing.

An interdisciplinary class to research and design for quality care and experience for patients, families, and care givers in healthcare settings.

Allows students from several different disciplines to collaborate on designing rooms for medical facilities that are more patient- and doctor-friendly. Students are asked to resolve issues that face builders, healthcare facilities managers, and designers.

This class introduces principles and practice of new information and communication technologies, especially the Internet and mobile phones, in economic, social and political development. Focusing on countries in Africa and South Asia we will design, assess, and critique information and communication technologies that aim to connect, empower, and enrich. Theoretical aspects will be reviewed along with an examination of broad problems in international development. But principally the class will focus around a core set of projects and real-­‐world cases.

Introduction to the theory and practice of graduate studies in Industrial Design in relation to behavior research and consumer products.

This course examines design artifacts in relation to the human body, aging, disabilities, and environments.

Graduate application of the design process to advanced multidisciplinary design problems. Experience in solving real design problems for consumer products.

This course will use a hands-on approach to teach students the fundamentals of web design and coding, and to study usability and accessibility issues in online environments, with an emphasis on Universal Design principles.

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This course provides an introduction to interactive product design including the basics of sensor technologies, electronics and programming to produce working product concept prototypes

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The course is mainly intended for the students to experience and learn techniques for successful interdisciplinary design; to be exposed to the unique challenges of healthcare design; to learn the importance of environment in the healing process; to understand the roles and skills of multiple disciplines in the design process including: the architect, the systems engineer, computer/technology engineer, and the clinician.

Application of cognitive science concepts to system design, and the development of concepts appropriate for understanding and aiding cognition in naturally or technologically complex environments.

The development and use of mathematical models of human behavior are considered. Approaches from estimation theory, control theory, queuing theory, and fuzzy set theory are considered.

Analysis and design of complex work domains in technological environments.

Analysis of variance, full and fractional factoral designs at two and three levels, orthogonal arrays, response surface methodology, robust parameter design for production/process improvement.

Simple and multiple linear regression, inferences and diagnostics, stepwise regression and model selection, advanced regression methods, basic design and analysis of experiments, factorial analysis.

Overview of basic tools used in statistical analysis and modeling.

This course examines the business and technical issues related to electronic commerce applications, such as the Internet, WWW, EDI, and electronic linkages between trading partners.

Examines issues inherent in product development and product management. These include product strategy, idea generation, market development, product positioning, test marketing, and launched brand management.

This course explores the competitive advantage manufacturing and service firms derive from effective management of their technology, workforce, materials, and information resources.

This course will cover the different techniques for managing projects, with a focus on IT projects. Using a mix of real-world cases, in-class exercises, and computer-based training, students will learn how to apply Earned Value Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Cost Estimation as well as other techniques to manage and evaluate IT projects and programs.

This course examines how humans process musical sound, including topics such as the auditory system, psychacoustics, music cognition, and psychology.

Overview of the history, aesthetics, and technology of electronic and computer music over the past century through selected readings, musical analysis, and individual research projects.

To familiarize students with the tools and techniques for effectively utilizing music and audio in the context of digital multimedia and the internet.

Exploration of distributed music systems over local-area networks and Internet, including discussion of existing technologies, works, literature, and hands-on experimentation with tools and techniques.

Advisor guided research and creative work in music technology. Investigation of novel technological and artistic concepts. Design and develop new hardware, software, and musical artifacts.

Analyzes policy implications of Internet architecture (Internet protocols, domain name system, packet switching, peer-to-peer) and surveys policy issues about content, privacy, intellectual property, and governance.

Examination of the relationships between science, technology, and government, including policies for support, control, and application of science and technology.

MS-HCI students to learn about the MS program and about HCI. The seminar aims to prepare students for success in their studies and careers. It includes presentations by leading HCI practitioners concerning career choices and preparation and about new developments, visits to corporate HCI labs in the Atlanta area, talks and discussions about potential MS projects and “how to succeed” in graduate school and as a professional. The seminar also helps to create a sense of community amongst participants. The seminar is required for first and second year students.

The Aware Home Seminar is a weekly talk by other students, faculty or industry loosely around the core areas of: health and wellness, future entertainment and communications, and sustainability in or related to the home. The talks are open to all students and faculty.

The Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) lab holds a weekly seminar with individual research updates and readings that are led by lab members and guest visitors. See our calendar for upcoming seminar topics.

The GVU Brown Bags feature guest speakers on a variety of topics of particular interest to the GVU community.

The Information Security Seminar is designed to give students a broad view of topics in information security through a series of invited speakers, practice talks and instructional videos. A detailed list of events (subject to change and "opportunities" as the semester evolves) is available on their calendar

Features guest speakers from around the world and from varying backgrounds in robotics. In addition to guest speakers, on campus research projects have also been presented.

Features student presentations, internship reports, conference reports and practice talks related to complex computing systems, including their hardware, communications and system-level software, and applications