HODI / Humanization of digital interactions

Facolta di Architettura di Alghero
Alghero, Sardinia, Italy q1-q3 2008
The course serves as an introduction to Interaction-Design for students without technical background, mostly coming from the fields of design and architecture. By using open source environments, hands-on approach and physical computing, students will gain knowledge about the emerging field of Interaction-Design: the design of objects, applications and services enabled by information and modern technologies. This will allow students to develop new approaches to their future work, and to expand their ability to innovate in the emerging field of Interaction-Design. Students will learn to design interactive products, services and experiences based on information and communication technology. Interaction-Design is a rapidly evolving set of activities at the intersection of design, technology, art and business. This course will expose students to elements of all four, which will synthesize together according to the discipline a student brings with him/her at the moment of entry to this four months course. The outcome-oriented objectives for the course are that each student, upon successful completion, will be able to:
Communicate with users, conveying technological limits and understanding user needs and requirements
Communicate with system developers, conveying users’ design needs and understanding technological capabilities and constraints
Compare and contrast human aspects of Human-Computer Interaction (cognition, perception, attention, representation, memory and social aspects) and the technological aspects
Describe methods, techniques and activities that support development of effective Human-Computer Interaction