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IT904 The Software Process
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: combination of lectures and seminars
Assessment: assignments and a final examination
A unit in the Software Engineering cluster of the Master of
Information Technology.
Subject aims
To study process management activities necessary to the
successful engineering of large-scale software systems.
Subject description
Software standards; schedule and cost estimation; risk
management; software quality management, software
metrics; software configuration management; software
C process assessment.
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g IT906 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
~1 12.5 credit points
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No. of hours per week: two hours
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Instruction: combination of lectures, seminars
and laboratory sessions
Assessment: two assignments and a final
examination
A unit of the human-computer interaction cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To appreciate the need for, and the role and characteristics
of, human-computer interaction.
Subject description
Introduction - points of view, scope and objectives of HCI,
metamodels of HCI; HCI technology - human-machine fit
and adaptation, the user interface useability and its
components, inputloutput devices, interface objects, dialogue
styles, genre, architecture, enhancedladaptive interaction; HCI
theory: modelling - psychological foundations of user
interfaces, types of uses, human information processing,
language, communication and interaction, formal models,
cognitive models, social models, ergonomic models,
applications; HCI research methods - experiments and
experimental design, measurement in the behwioural
sciences, data collection methods, data analysis methods; HCI
application: organisational impact; HCI future developments.
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1~909 Foundations of Intelligent Systems
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of kctures, tutorials
and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments and a final examination
A unit of the intelligent systems engineering cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To investigate knowledge and its representation within a
computer.
Subject description
Selected topics from: knowledge and scepticism, intention
and belief, behaviourism, scientific explanation, causality, the
mind-body problem; logic - propositional logic, predicate
logic, fuzzy logic, multi-valued logic, temporal logic,
epistemic logic, procedural reasoning systems;
implementation and interface issues - search and control,
knowledge representation schemes, vision, natural language
processing, learning; neural computing, connectionism and
the mind.
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IT9 13
Automated Systems Development
Project
50.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours for two
semesters
Instruction: laboratoty and field work,
supplemented by supelvised reading and
individual consultation as required
Assessment: by deliverable items (requirements
and specification documents, system and user
manuals, the working srjtem itself, and an
evaluation of its effectiveness in satisfying the
requirements)
A unit in the researchlproject cluster of the Master of
lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To gain experience of the automated systems development
process; to develop an information system.
Subject description
The project may be undertaken either individually or as part
of a small group where appropriate. All stages of the
development process will be covered, culminating in the
production of a working system.
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IT914 Systems Analysis
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and
tutorials
Assessment: individual and team assignments,
and a final examination
A unit in the Software Engineering cluster of the Master of
Information Technology.
Subject aims
To study existing practice and contemporary developments in
strategic systems planning, systems analysis methodologies,
computer-assisted software engineering support for analysis,
and contemporary issues in systems analysis.
Subject description
Strategic planning: a "systems" approach; system analysis:
an object-oriented approach; CASE tool support; current
issues: a selection of present research topics in "systems
thinking" and object-oriented analysis.
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IT916 Programming the User Interface
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, seminars
and laboratory sessions
Assessment: two assignments and a final
examination
A unit of the human-computer interaction cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To introduce the concepts and techniques relevant to
programming the user interface.