Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The project aims to create or explore an interaction. It could, for example be a man-machine interaction, a human-human interaction or human-machine-human interaction.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Understand the fundamental aspects of the designed/examined interaction.
• Understand the psychological concepts that are either related to or possibly can describe the designed/examined interaction.
• Understand methods for the measurement of the designed/examined interaction influence on humans.

Skills

• Can design a prototype which is part of/or which can be used in connection with the designed/investigated interaction.
• Can measure on the designed/examined interaction with an aim of investigating the influence on humans.
• Can with the relevant tools analyse the measured data from this could account for the interaction’s influence on humans.

Competences

• Can synthesize the above information into a holistic understanding of the designed/examined the interaction and its influence on humans.

Can

• Design and prototype manufacture a product using knowledge of applied cognitive psychology, to improve the human’s experience of a product. The improvement of the interaction could be measured through various user experience tests where a later statistical analysis could give a concrete estimate of the interaction’s influence on the user.

or

• Investigate a given interaction, in order to provide design guidelines, suggestions for improvement, or a design concept that can increase or improve the interaction’s influence on the user.

Type of instruction

Project work

• A report

or

• A scientific paper, in conjunction with edited work sheets documenting the various details of the project.

Exam

Exams