Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech Master’s Program in Human-Computer Interaction

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

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

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.

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

Explores visual media through a mutually instructive and integrated interplay between 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

This course presents current research topics in cognitive aging.

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

Seminar style introduction to cognitive engineering which discusses conceptual approaches to the design of socio-technical systems and specifically addressing the impact of information systems and collaborative work which are enabling profound changes in work, industry, education, and recreation. The course is project based and has the objective to provide students with the knowledge and skills to(1) Understand how human performance impacts the performance of large-scale systems involving humans, technologies, and procedural/regulatory demands on behavior. (2) Understand the fundamental determinants of human behavior within these systems, including their interaction with technological artifacts (such as computer displays and decision aids, information systems, and automated systems), context and situational factors, and their personal attributes and goals. (3) Apply structured design methods to developing technologies (such as information systems) and procedures, in order to enable desired human behavior and system performance.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Overview of concepts, techniques, hardware, and software used in audio production as well as aesthetic concerns and considerations.

Project Studio in Music Technology Discussion, design and development of computer music applications and performance
controllers.

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.