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This course runs at 50% study speed during the whole spring semester, and is a practical master-level course with weekly design critique sessions, literature seminare, as well as several concrete design and writing assignments. Each project is documented online.
This year, the course begins with a four week project in groups to make a submission to the SIDER conference (Scandinavian Interaction Design student conference). Here you will use established methods and tools for interaction design work, in the form of sketches, interaction scenarios, and making and presenting prototypes. This work also result in the writing of a short academic paper.
Thereafter, four weeks will follow, working around a series of small exercises, design theory, reading and discussing. Themes are interaction critizism, autobiographical design, and reflecting on the past while envisioning the future of interaction design.
The second half of the course is structured around a final project, in which students work in groups of 2-3 to develop a design and present it in a final exhibition. Each project will start out from recent research in the field.
During the project you will:
Feedback on all practical activities is given as group design crit sessions, where everyone provides feedback on each others work. There are also scheduled sessions for discussing your project alone with a teacher.
Learning Objectives
After completing the course, participants should be able to:
Introductory course in Human-Machine Interaction
The course is based on the book Designing for Interaction, by Dan Saffer (2009).
Sample pdf of the first 24 pages:
http://www.designingforinteraction.com/designingforinteraction2_sample.pdf
Selected chapters from Interaction-design.org (Interaction Design, User experience, Contextual Design, Philosophy of interaction, Affective Computing)
Additional litterature for reading seminars are sent out in digital form.
Students are also expected to search and select additional research papers based on personal interests, e.g. to support project work.
Tasks and marks
All tasks will be performed in small groups of 3-5 or individually.
The course marks are Pass / Fail.
For passing the course you have to:
Teacher
Ylva Fernaeus, lecturer in interaction design (YF)