ISE 5700
Transcript Abbreviation:
Cognitive Sys Eng
Course Description:
Human-centered design of consumer products, web sites and complex sociotechnical systems. Topics include human-computer interaction and the design of decision support and distributed work systems.
Course Levels:
Undergraduate (1000-5000 level)
Graduate
Designation:
Elective
General Education Course:
(N/A)
Cross-Listings:
(N/A)
Credit Hours (Minimum if “Range”selected):
3.00
Max Credit Hours:
3.00
Select if Repeatable:
Off
Maximum Repeatable Credits:
(N/A)
Total Completions Allowed:
(N/A)
Allow Multiple Enrollments in Term:
No
Course Length:
14 weeks (autumn or spring)
12 weeks (summer only)
Off Campus:
Never
Campus Location:
Columbus
Instruction Modes:
In Person (75-100% campus; 0-24% online)
Prerequisites and Co-requisites:
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor.
Electronically Enforced:
No
Exclusions:
Not open to students with credit for 3700 (770).
Course Goals / Objectives:
Assess, study, and model cognitive work systems that involve tasks such as decision making, diagnosis, process control, information retrieval and adaptive planning
Apply human-centered design principles to the evaluation and design of products and complex systems
Evaluate design distributed work systems
Check if concurrence sought:
No
Contact Hours:
| Topic | LEC | REC | LAB | LAB Inst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study to illustrate basic concepts in human-computer interaction and cognitive systems engineering. | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Human-Centered Design of Consumer Products: affordances, visualization and interface design techniques, design-induced error | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Human-Centered Design of Distributed Work Systems: teamwork, group dynamics and organizational factors, computer supported collaborative work (CSCW), communication, coordination, cooperation and collaboration | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Design Methods: user analysis and the development of use cases, scenario-based design, critical incident methods, field studies and ethnographic methods, storyboarding, prototyping | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Design of Decision Support Systems:available technologies, roles and responsibilities, making brittle technologies useful | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Design of Resilient Systems: cognitive factors, technological factors, organizational factors, strategies for increasing system resilience | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Case Studies from Domains: air traffic management, medicine and healthcare, military command and control, information retrieval and analysis, manufacturing | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Total | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grading Plan:
Letter Grade
Course Components:
Lecture
Grade Roster Component:
Lecture
Credit by Exam (EM):
No
Grades Breakdown:
| Aspect | Percent |
|---|---|
| Exercises | 30% |
| Design project | 40% |
| Exam | 30% |
Representative Textbooks and Other Course Materials:
| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Design of Everyday Things | Norman | |
| Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual | Samara | |
| Human-centered design of decision support systems | Smith, P.J., Geddes, N. and Beatty, R | |
| The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Edition, | Tufte, E.R | |
| An Introduction to Human factors Engineering, 2nd Edition | Wickens, C., Lee, J., Liu, Y., Gordon, S., | |
| Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering | Woods and Hollnagel |
ABET-CAC Criterion 3 Outcomes:
(N/A)
ABET-ETAC Criterion 3 Outcomes:
(N/A)
ABET-EAC Criterion 3 Outcomes:
(N/A)
Embedded Literacies Info:
Attachments:
(N/A)
Additional Notes or Comments:
(N/A)
Basic Course Overview:
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