HINF 5300 — Personal Health Interface Design and Development
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: falltypical days: WBostonTraditional
Explores the design of innovative personal health human-computer interface technologies. Examples include assistive technologies that aid persons with disabilities, consumer wellness promotion applications, patient education and counseling systems, interfaces for reviewing personal health records, and elder care and social network systems that monitor health and support independent living. Offers students an opportunity to work in teams to build a prototype personal health interface system to solve a real problem. Topics include needs assessment and participatory research, iterative user interface design methods for health interface development, computational sensing of health states and behavior, software architectures for iteratively testing prototype personal health interface technologies, human-computer interaction issues related to personal health technology, and technology transfer requirements to support future validation studies of technology.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 10 | 23 | 43% | 13.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 27% | 11.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 29% · T 0% · W 71% · Th 0% · F 0%
Common patterns: W (71% of sections), M (29% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Varun Mishra (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (HINF course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All HINF courses · Plan it at numap.app