After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• provide an overview of important current research on navigation/wayfinding;
• design, plan and conduct a HCI-experiment using a mobile GIS as well as analyzing the resulting data;
• explain the core principles of ethics in conducting HCI research;
• reflect on the cons of using ad-hoc surveys in empirical research.

This lecture focuses on empirical methods for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) based on the example of mobile geographic information systems. This includes (but is not neccessesarily restricted to):

• an overview about major research questions regarding wayfinding/navigation (support) of pedestrians;
• an essential understanding of the design, planning (e.g. apriori power analysis) and conducting empirical research;
• basic knowledge about the theory and practice of development and use of surveys;
• data analysis skills for HCI studies;
• research ethics in HCI experiments.

e.g. Lecture, discussion groups, reading groups

written exam (partly multiple choice)