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Include an updated version of your outline at the beginning of the document and begin the draft of the report on a new page.  I do not expect you to turn in a 10 page paper at this point.  Approach writing the paper as suggested in the YouTube video you should view (a link to the video and an outline of this video written by someone is included above).  I am expecting to see that you made substantial progress in the body of the paper.  At this point it is not critical that you remove all grammatical errors in what you have written.  Submit a Word file.

File Name:  LastName_FirstName_Draft1 x or

Must be submitted on time to receive credit for this assignment.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  All 4 required drafts must submitted when due.  If all the drafts are not submitted, the completed technical report (30% of semester grade) will not be accepted or graded.  Each successive draft must show substantial improvements from the previous draft. You cannot submit the same draft 4 times.

Change of outline

Submit Draft 1 of your technical report here.  If you changed your outline from the last time you submitted it, put the new outline at the beginning of your draft and begin the first page of the draft of the report on the next page.  Submit a Word file.

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Topic: Importance of usability in human computer interaction (HCI).

Human-computer interaction is the process to find out how people interact with computers. To produce computer systems with good usability it helps to understand the factors how people use technology, develop tools and techniques to enable building suitable systems in

order to achieve effective, efficient and safe interaction.

Standard Outline Format

Purpose: The purpose of an outline is to identify the most important ideas in one or more chapters of a textbook and organize them according to their importance.

I. Roman Numerals are used to identify the biggest and most important ideas. If you are outlining more than one chapter, then you will usually use roman numerals to identify the chapter titles. If you are only outlining one chapter then you will use roman numerals to identify section headings.

A. Main Ideas are identified by capital letters. In the textbook that we use the main ideas are all in red bold letters. Every time you see a heading that is big and red you will write it down with a capital letter to the left of it.

1. sub-headings are smaller parts of a main idea. They are identified by numbers. In our text book, most subheadings are green. Sometimes, however, there aren’t any subheadings. In that case you will write the first sentence of a paragraph as a subheading.

a. supporting details are usually examples, proper nouns or numbers. They are identified by lower case letters.

b. supporting detail

c. supporting detail

2. sub-heading

a.

b

B. Main Idea

1. sub-heading

a. supporting detail

b. supporting detail

The above explanation was done in outline format.

You will notice that every time there is an idea that is a part of a larger one, the smaller idea is indented.

The use of roman numerals, capital letters , numbers and lower case letters will vary depending on the length of the section or paragraph.

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Importance of usability in human-computer interaction

I. Introduction

· Interaction between humans and computers.

· An interdisciplinary field that incorporates cognitive psychology, computer science, sociology, communication and many more.

· Growing field with a history of more than four decades.

· Most important in recent years. 

1. Methodology

   All the data used here are existing data searched through the internet. 

1. Importance of HCI

· Permeate every aspect of our daily lives.

· To produce more usable and understandable devices and software for everyone.

· The important factor when designing any of these systems or interfaces.

· Important for the end-user as well as a high priority for software development companies.

· Provides designers with the principles, techniques, and tools necessary to effectively design interfaces.

IV. Principles of HCI 

HCI is generally difficult because it is a multi-objective task involving many things. Researchers and developers have established basic principles. Some of the principles of HCI are:

1. Know Thy user

2. Understand the task

3. Reduce memory load 

4. Strive for consistency

5. Prevent errors

6. Naturalness

conclusion

· A necessary part of daily life.

· Reflects today’s society by advancing interactivity. 

· Shows human-computer interaction

· It makes it easier to make devices and software understandable and usable.

http://www.ittoday.info/Excerpts/HCI

https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~dfitzpat/node/96