The focus of this course is on the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and on the study of major phenomena surrounding them. This course will provide the students with a strong grounding in the guidelines, principles, methodologies, tools, and techniques for analyzing, designing, and evaluating user interfaces and interaction techniques. Topics include: 1) Human Information Processing System 2) Interaction Behavior Modeling 3) Computational Interface Design 4) User Centered Design 5) Sketching and Prototyping 6) Usability Testing 7) Heuristic Evaluation 8) Natural User Interfaces & the Future of Uls 9) State-of-the-art research within HCI