Teaching Task Analysis for User Interface Design: Lessons Learned from Three Pilot Studies

Káthia Marçal de Oliveira (1) , Patrick Girard (2, 3) , Taisa Guidini Gonçalves (1) , Sophie Lepreux (1) , Christophe Kolski (1)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 LIAS [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'informatique et d'automatique pour les systèmes [EA 6315]
3 IDD - Ingénierie des Données et des moDèles

Task analysis is recognized by the Human-Computer Interaction community as good practice to improve the understanding of how a user may interact with software interfaces to reach a given goal. During more than one decade, we have taught task analysis in undergraduate and graduate HCI programs for the design of better interactive systems. In this paper, we describe three ways of teaching task analysis and the lessons learned from those practices. We consider this the first step of a larger study looking to improve task analysis education effectiveness.

Mots clés: Task analysis; HCI Education; user interface design

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Patrick Girard, Taisa Guidini Gonçalves, Sophie Lepreux, Christophe Kolski. Teaching Task Analysis for User Interface Design: Lessons Learned from Three Pilot Studies. 27ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine., Oct 2015, Toulouse, France. pp.w10, ⟨10.1145/2820619.2825011⟩. ⟨hal-01219093⟩