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MF2037 Human Product Interaction 6.0 credits

Människa produktinteraktion

This course provides knowledge about the interaction between people, products and environments at both the individual and societal level.

  • Educational level

    Second cycle

  • Academic level (A-D)

  • Subject area

    Mechanical Engineering

  • Grade scale

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Course offerings

Spring 13 for programme students

Spring 14 for programme students

Learning outcomes

This course provides knowledge about the interaction between people, products and environments at both the individual and societal level.

After the course the student should be able to:

  • analyze and discuss the interaction between products and people based on cognitive, physical and emotional factors
  • examining various types of interaction and how it affects work, education and welfare
  • have worked in a design project with a task on human-product interaction
  • know  factors that influence the interaction between people and products in a desired direction
  • have basic skills in how to create and execute a survey and know the pros and cons with surveys.

Course main content

The course is based on exercises, literature studies, seminars and experiments in full scale in which we investigate in different ways, testing, and discuss the interaction between people, product and built environment.

In this course we look at humans as a whole in which physical, cognitive and emotional elements interact and affect each other. Different models are used to understand what creates well-being and how we interact with our surroundings.

We examine critically the way products and environments create opportunities and constraints for the way we move, learn and work.

In the experiments we are testing how artfakter might encourage us to develop new ways to interact.

We learn how to use surveys as a research tools and how this can be combined with other tools

Eligibility

CDEPR4IDE, Masterprogrammet TIPDM

Literature

Emotional design, Donald Norman, 

Hälsans mysterium, Aaron Antonovsky

Object-specific literature

Examination

  • PRO1 - Project Work, 3.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
  • PRO2 - Project Work, 3.0 credits, grade scale: P, F

Requirements for final grade

Approved assignments, project work and report.
Compulsory attendance of 75% of the lectures

Offered by

ITM/Machine Design

Contact

Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, 08-790 78 30, sarai@md.kth.se

Examiner

Sara Ilstedt <sarai@kth.se>

Version

Course plan valid from: Spring 11.
Examination information valid from: Autumn 10.