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Architectures for Software Systems aims to teach you how to design, understand, and evaluate systems at an architectural level of abstraction. By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand the influence of architectural drivers on software structures.
• Understand the technical, organizational, and business role of software architecture.
• Recognize some major architectural structures (styles, patterns, tactics, etc.)
• Understand the principles of good architectural documentation.
• Understand the impact that COTS has on architectural designs.
• Generate architectural alternatives in a given context and choose among them.
• Understand how formal notations can be used to specify architectures.
• Evaluate the fitness of an architectural design in meeting a set of system requirements and balancing quality trade-offs.
• Be aware of the future trends in software architecture.
  

The purpose of this course is for graduate students to gain a breadth of understanding in the toolbox of AI approaches employed in digital games. This involves learning/reinforce some basic topics covered in other AI courses, but with a focus on applied knowledge within the context of digital games.

The Capstone Project course is a 28-week long capstone project for the Masters in HCI and ETC programs that integrates everything the students have learned in their coursework into one “end-to-end” experience. For the second time this year the capstone project also integrates the ETC Projects, which are a more intensive one semester long projects. Both HCI and ETC capstones have a different sponsor and retain their own identity and standards. HCI and ETC student groups working with the same sponsor will share their project space and will be encouraged to share experiences, techniques and results. In both HCI and ETC capstones students work in interdisciplinary teams with an industry client to produce a working prototype that serves as a proof of concept and requirements document for a valuable new or enhanced computed-based service, product or system. The students come from a variety of backgrounds including computer science, psychology, art, design, multimedia, and other related programs. The industrial client defines the project area and guides its direction. In the first few months of the project (January to May), MHCI students make a plan, conduct user research and brainstorm designs or product ideas. The plan defines the iterative design process in the summer, and will usually include contextual inquiry, background research, and/or other investigations to understand the nature and needs of the customer/user and tasks relevant to their problem. Based on that understanding, students go through an innovation phase producing product ideas situated to meet the identified needs. Students should plan to produce a small number of low-fidelity prototypes early so that they can get meaningful feedback from their clients in a timely fashion.  With strong client input, students narrow down their ideas and select one or more to pursue further. During the Spring semester MET students go through a more intensive process leading to a working prototype. The ETC project will share the same sponsor but will follow its specific deadlines and process. Then for MHCI, in the fall semester, students engage in a prototyping, analysis and user-testing phase where they produce prototypes with increasing fidelity and iteratively test them with users to improve the design. They do weekly iteration cycles, so by the end of the summer, product prototypes are well refined and adapted to user needs. In most cases, the end goal is a high fidelity working prototype that clients can use.

Companies are turning to design to address the opportunities and challenges faced by the shift to a knowledge-based service-centered society. In the past, services have been consciously designed, but rarely with the participation of designers or transdisciplinary teams. When they have, they’ve looked back toward product design for inspiration. In this course, we will look forward toward designing for service in ways that stimulate senses, connect deeply with people’s lifestyles, emphasize the broader social and cultural context of people’s actions and provide support through a networked service ecology or system of systems.

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The notion of Embodiment, as defined by Paul Dourish lies at the intersection of two areas of research, what has been until now called Tangible computing together with Social computing.

This course is concerned with humans as embodied actors interacting in the world in the absorbed and unreflective manner of everyday experience. This standpoint is of particular relevance to emerging HCI disciplines of tangible computing and social computing. The goal of this approach is to create interaction experiences for users which are seamlessly intertwined with the surrounding physical and social environment. This course will provide the theoretical background to embodied interaction, explore the domains in which its model is applicable and provide practical experience with the fundamentals of constructing such systems. It culminates with a substantial project exploring sensors and interaction.

Introdução/Motivação: Engenharia Organizacional (EO) é uma disciplina/área científica multidisciplinar, emergida das áreas de Sistemas de Informação, Gestão e Ciências Organizacionais, entre outras. Tem vindo a ganhar cada vez mais relevo a nível internacional e pretende contribuir para solucionar o gravíssimo problema de a maioria dos projetos de mudança organizacional (incluindo ou não a implementação de sistemas informáticos) falharem em atingirem as expectativas geradas. A solução passa pelo desenvolvimento de teorias, métodos e ferramentas adequadas para uma análise e representação fidedignas da realidade estrutural e operacional de uma empresa/organização (seja pública, seja privada) antes de se avançar para iniciativas de mudança organizacional com ou sem a automatização com base em Tecnologias de Informação (TI). Uma das principais causas de tantas falhas nos projetos mencionados é uma compreensão incompleta e/ou ambígua da realidade organizacional, levando a falhas e lacunas na mudança da realidade organizacional e/ou sistemas informáticos incompletos ou desadequados. Na disciplina de EO é dado ênfase à necessidade de, essencialmente através de um conjunto de diagramas, modelos e teorias associadas, chegar-se a uma compreensão e especificação clara e neutra das organizações como sistemas predominantemente sociais, passíveis de serem alvo de métodos precisos e ferramentas práticas de engenharia, com vista a uma mais eficaz mudança organizacional e/ou implementação de sistemas de informação e tecnologias associadas. Na prática, um engenheiro organizacional fica capaz de melhor analisar qualquer realidade organizacional, com recurso a análise de documentação e/ou entrevistas e a especificação desta realidade através de diagramas/modelos formais específicos da área de EO, mas fáceis de interpretar por qualquer colaborador da organização. Durante o semestre são basicamente ensinadas e treinadas técnicas de análise e modelação, tendo em conta as teorias que estão na base desta disciplina.

No âmbito de uma parceria entre o M-ITI/UMa e o Enterprise Engineering Institute (EEI) da Holanda, esta disciplina inclui toda a formação necessária para a obtenção do Diploma: DEMO Bachelor, sendo necessário, para tal, a obtenção de nota final superior a 14 nesta UC. No caso de nota inferior a 14 é ainda possível a realização de um exame no EEI (possível de fazer, remotamente, nas instalações da UMa no final do período complementar do primeiro semestre) que, graças à parceria realizada é livre de custos para os alunos de EO. A possibilidade da obtenção deste diploma oficial e internacional é, portanto, gratuita para os alunos e uma mais valia para o currículo de quem frequente EO com sucesso.

Objectivos: Estudo da engenharia organizacional (EO) como disciplina agregadora de conceitos e métodos de engenharia aplicados às organizações tendo por fim compreender e representar, através de diagramas e modelos, múltiplas facetas das mesmas, bem como facilitar a análise e mudança organizacional. Desenvolver competências relativas à modelação, aplicação de metodologias e ferramentas utilizadas na representação, desenvolvimento e mudança organizacional a nível de estratégia, arquitetura, estrutura, processos e sistemas de informação.

Tópicos teóricos: Introdução à disciplina de Engenharia Organizacional: o contexto da Engenharia de Sistemas de Informação e Ciências de Gestão e Organização; Noções teóricas basilares: ontologia, semiótica, sistema e modelo; Estado da arte de métodos e notações de modelação; Introdução ao método DEMO (Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations); Axiomas e Teorema do DEMO; A metodologia do DEMO; Modelos de Interação, Atores e Transações; Modelos de Processos e Workflow; Modelos de Factos, Estados e Informação; Delegação e Autorização; Missão, estratégia e arquitetura organizacional; Controlo da organização; Mudança organizacional: a Geração, Operacionalização e Descontinuação de artefactos organizacionais.

Trabalhos práticos:

1) Trabalho de Modelação As-Is (TMAI) - consiste na execução, por cada grupo de alunos, de alguns exercícios de modelação de alguns casos documentados do curso "DEMO Professional". Após publicação do enunciado numa determinada semana, os alunos têm de realizar alguma análise e/ou desenhar diagramas/tabelas seguindo o método DEMO e entregar um pequeno relatório com o trabalho feito, alvo de discussão e avaliação contínua na aula prática da semana seguinte;

2) Trabalho Avançado de Modelação - este trabalho desenrola-se em moldes semelhantes ao TMAI sendo que, após o ganho de experiência obtido com os casos teóricos, cada grupo terá como missão modelar uma certa parte da organização da UMa com a produção do respetivo modelo ontológico, realizar uma análise crítica e propor sugestões de melhoria, eventualmente aplicando conceitos das organizações G.O.D e Controle. Para o efeito é disponibilizada documentação oficial da UMa a cada grupo, sendo esta a base principal do trabalho.

Students work as teams to finish a semester-long HCI project where they go through several design, implementation and evaluation cycles.  Each team will develop a product/service to solve a given design problem.  Students are strongly encouraged to submit their work to international design competitions, such as the one at the CHI conference.

At the beginning of the semester, each student has to propose a design direction/plan/solution for a targeted design problem. Students who win the proposal competition will recruit other students and control the schedule created to execute the project plan. Each team needs to meet the instructor for individual work sessions, and to present their progress to the class. At the end of the semester, there will be a public presentation and prototype demonstration.

Program:

Docente: Ana Isabel Torres Garcia Portugal

quatro horas semanais

segunda feira das 4 ás 8 na sala 23

Objectivos

Desenvolver nos alunos as capacidades de gestão de projectos de software e trabalho em equipa, habilitando-os assim a resolver a diversidade de problemas que tipicamente surgem em projectos deste tipo numa organização real

This course discusses the fundamentals of human-centered software engineering. The central topics are about bridging HCI and software engineering. Students are introduced to the main process, methods and techniques of HCSE. Agile development methods (usageCD, Wisdom and SCRUM) are detailed in this project based course, including the techniques of activity modeling, user and task modeling, abstract prototypes and model-based UIDs.

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This course aims to provide a strong knowledge on multimedia systems and its different components, such as, methodologies and technologies of information representation, compression (e.g., BMP, PNG, JPEG, MPEG1, MPEG4, MPEG7) and processing (e.g., convolution masks); media transmission (HTTP vs RTP); authoring tools (HTML5); multimedia interaction and applications. It will be composed of theoretical and practical components, providing to the student a strong and solid background knowledge on the different multimedia systems paradigms. The practical component will include the implementation of a multimedia system prototype (Processing/openFrameworks).

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This course is a combination programming course and design studio, and is for those who want to express their interactive ideas in working prototypes. Students will learn how to use programming languages, how to design and implement effective GUI interfaces, and how to perform rapid, effective iterative user tests. The course will cover several prototyping tools and require a number of prototypes to be constructed in each. These will range from animated mock- ups through fully functional programs. The course will also cover usability testing of interactive prototypes. This course is intended for HCII Masters students who come to CMU with a minimal, but competent programming background.

This course is an introduction to the main concepts underlying distributed systems, e.g. communication, naming, clock synchronisation and distributed algorithms.
We aim to explain the main characteristics of components that take part in the distributed systems and that impact the way the systems are designed and implemented. The main concepts and techniques that have been developed to help in the tasks of designing and implementing distributed systems will be introduced.

This course is designed to:

-Introduce students to the basic organizing principles found in interactive software
-Provide experience with user interface implementation
-Explore advanced interaction techniques

It considers factors of input, output, application interface, and related infrastructure as well as the typical patterns used to implement them (e.g., MVC model). It will also consider how these components are organized and managed within a well-structured object oriented system. After considering these fundamental concepts in the first portion of the class, the later part will consider advanced topics related to emerging future concepts in user interface design.

This course includes: an introduction to functional design of the user interface; basic principles of GUI implementation; event handling and event dispatching models; among other topics.

The course includes the development of an interactive prototype with traditional and non-traditional interfaces (Android).