INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 5th semester
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Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from from 15.00-17.00 in 4.K14.
OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
"Sweet Dreams are Made of This" proposes to dive into notions the very essence of interaction design agency, ahead of the thesis semester. Notions of contribution, ownership and the framing of a research question, ahead of the thesis semester. This course is based on the principle that a new contribution to knowledge has to be read about, dreamed about visionary, used and related to, through hands on testing and prototyping in various stages throughout your project, explored orally and visually, and discussed by peers and tutors. Those notions are addressed through a diverse set of materials showcasing social engagement, activism, aesthetic movements, fictional dream-like scenarios and practical workshop formats.
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Fiction: Dream it bigger and create an ongoing dialog between what is and what might be. How could things be expanded? Which aspects could be extended? How could you add something? Should you recapitulate anything? Make it smaller: What could you leave out? Which aspects could be reduced? https://www.politicalbeauty.de
Zimmermann J., Forlizzi J., (2014) Research Through Design in HCI, J.S. Olson and W.A. Kellogg (eds.), Ways of Knowing in HCI, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_8, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014, http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF5591/h15/Literature/resdeszimmer.pdf
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Workshop I-III Group-Presentations of various approaches in the class
Jonas, W., Zerwas, S., von Anshelm, K., (2015) Transformation Design - Perspectives on a New Design Attitude, Birkhäuser, 978-3-0356-0636-2 November 2015
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1. Introduce you project
● What is your project?
● What question/problem/issue/ does it address?
● What are the aims of the project?
● Why is this project important / relevant/useful? (rationale)
● For whom is this project important / relevant/ useful? (rationale)
2. Literature review
● What are the critical issues/ contexts pertinent to your project?
● Identify key texts/ examples/arguments to support your project and research approach
● What other research has been done in the area?
3. Methodology
● Discuss why you are taking this approach
● Describe the various stages of your project (step by step) and then the associated research processes– this can be a diagram or table – to give an overview of the research design for this project
● Discuss the different methods being used and why you are using them
● Identify any issues/ difficulties that may effect the project and strategies to address them
● Identify what you hope to achieve through each stage of the project
4. Conclusion
● What you hope to achieve through this work?
● What will the final outcome and forms of this project?
● How will the research be presented?
Example of essay writing see:
Aurélie Mossé: “Energy-harvesting & Self-Actuated Textiles for the home: Designing with New Materials & Technologies”. http://bit.ly/1MCHRyV