The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide fundamental notions for the design and evaluation of interactive systems, with particular attention also to novel interaction paradigms particularly interesting for the Industry 4.0 framework, e..g virtual and augmented reality. The course will introduce basic concepts about usability and user experience, human factors, interaction paradigms, usability engineering and evaluation

These topics will be addressed in a peculiar way for advanced applications in the field of immersive virtual reality giving practical examples and analyzing related scenarios.

At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of usability and be able to apply them to the design of various types of computer interfaces. He will be able to develop prototypes of virtual / mixed reality applications, considering the specificities of the interaction. He wll be able to analyze the usability and the user experience of both standard interfaces and mixed reality applications.

This knowledge will provide the student with the ability to: i) independently assess the usability problems of the systems and select the correct evaluation methods for each different task; ii) expand and deepen the technical knowledge of the various aspects of the Computer Engineering for Robotics and Smart Industry study path being able to consider the effects of human factors in the use of technology. At the end of the course, the student will also have to show that he is able to: i) usability to different application areas; ii) develop interactive 3D environments for usability analysis, training, interaction in mixed reality.