Intelligent User Interfaces

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Intelligent user interaction is a relatively new field in Computer Science, involving the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. It can often be seen as the intersection of computer science, behavioural sciences, and other field of study. This course will start with an overview of how to develop user-centric interfaces, what is the role of data analysis and research design methods in prototyping, and how different phases, from ideation to high fidelity prototyping relate to each other. Moreover, intelligent user interactions, involving technologies able to automatically recognize human intentions and behaviours, will be discussed. These can come, for example, from the fields of computer vision, speech processing, text mining. A thriving area in the field is that of interface personalization and affective computing, that is, computing driven by human emotions and behaviours.