Interaction Design Methods

Instructor

Keiichi Sato

Overview

The primary role of design is to bring technologies to human contexts and to provide interface mechanisms between technological artifacts and users. This course introduces basic concepts of interaction, underlying theories, design principles and methods. Particularly we will focus on methodological approaches for understanding user needs, and modeling, prototyping, designing and evaluating interactive systems. Some design cases in product design, media design, communication design and software design will be also examined and discussed.

Contents

The course content includes the following subjects:

Historical development and natures of interaction design
Cognitive and physical foundations of interaction
Models of users and interaction
Interaction methods and principles
-- interaction paradigms
-- physical and media spaces
Design approaches and design environments
-- multiple views of interaction
-- user studies
-- scenario-based design
-- task-based approach
-- prototyping interaction
-- context and context-sensitivity in interactive ssytems design
-- design process standards for human-centered design
Usability and evaluation

The format of the class:
Weekly class hours will be allocated to lecture, assignment review, and discussion. We will have light weekly assignments that will be cummulatively extended to the final assignment.

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