Notícias

As seguintes disciplinas que fazem parte do Professional Master in Human-Computer Interaction estão disponíveis como opções do Mestrado em Eng. Informática, os alunos que as pretendam frequentar devem alterar a sua inscrição no InfoAlunos:

Designing for Service (Design de Serviços)Valentina Nisi & Nuno Nunes
As the service sector continues to dominate the US and European economies, companies will turn to design thinking to address the opportunities and challenges faced by the shift to a knowledge-based service-centered society. In the past, services have rarely been consciously designed, and 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".
Human Factors (Factores Humanos em Interacção)Ian Oakley
This course uses theory and research from human factors, cognitive science,and social science to understand and design the interactions of humans with the built world, tools, and technology. The course emphasizes current workin applied domains such as automotive design, house construction, medical human factors, and design of information devices. The course also will emphasize not only individual human factors (e.g., visual response,anthropometry) but also the organizational arrangements that can amplify or correct human factors problems.Through reading, discussion, and projects, you will learn about human perceptual, cognitive, and physical processes that affect how people interact with, and use, technology and tools. You will learn why we have so many automobile accidents, voting irregularities, and injuries from prescription medication. You will learn some tried and true solutions forhuman factors problems, and some of the many problems in human factors thatremain. You will also have gained experience in research in this field
Design Studio (Projecto de Design de Interacção)Monchu Chen
This is a seminar course with the following course goals: to introduce students to related topics under the umbrella of interaction design; to have students meet, listen to and discuss issues with some leading figures in the field; to have students challenge their own ideas about designing for interaction; with regular readings, discussions and writing, to have students develop a critical stance regarding the field, its proponents and body of literacture, as well as its study and practice; to have students develop the skills for clear, concise and engaging writing; and, with serious reflection, to have students develop their own definition of interaction design.
Embodiment (Embodiment)Ian Oakley & Valentina Nisi
This course approaches interaction from the perspective of phenomenological philosophy; action rather than representation. It 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 includes projects in social study, tangible or sensor-based computing and location based services and interaction.
Social Web (Web Social)Vassilis Kostakos
This course is designed to:
•Introduce students to the theoretical aspects of how online communities operate
•Help students identify those characteristics that make social websites succeed or fail
•Provide experience in becoming part of a social website
•Develop students’ critical thinking and writing, and presentation skills
This course will be taught as a reading class, meaning that students are expected to do reading assignments before each class, and to actively participate in discussion. Each week one student, the “Lecturer”, will be responsible for presenting the course topic to the rest of the class, and to lead a discussion on this topic. This student will be responsible for kick-starting an online discussion on this topic, which should begin at lest 72 hours before the lecture. The rest of the students are expected to contribute to this discussion before the day of the lecture by writing a critique of the material and reparing questions for the class. In addition, each student must adopt a social website of their choosing, become active members in it, and at the end of term present to the rest of the class an empirical account of how this website works.