Interaction Design 6: User Experience
2024/2025
Content, progress and pedagogy of the module
Disclaimer.
This is an English translation of the module. In case of
discrepancy between the translation and the Danish version, the
Danish version of the module is valid.
PURPOSE
The course aims to provide the student with knowledge of the user
experience aspect of an interaction design, provide knowledge of
forms of interaction that particularly prioritize this aspect, and
introduce techniques that support interaction design processes with
a special focus on user experience. The aim of the module is that
the student will be able to create interaction designs with special
focus on emotional, meaning-forming and value-creating aspects of
the way a user subjectively experiences the design and interaction
with a product or system.
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- must acquire knowledge of design principles and guidelines for user experience design, e.g. expressive and persuasive interfaces, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism
- must gain insight into theoretical models of feeling and experience, e.g. emotional design, pleasure, or technology as experience the models
- must acquire knowledge of techniques for focusing on, developing and communicating the design of user experience, e.g. cultural probes and acting-out, sketching, picture scenarios, and personas
- must gain knowledge of opportunities and challenges in connection with the assessment of user experience in an interaction design, including techniques for evaluation in the field
- must gain knowledge of interaction design situations where the user experience aspect is particularly relevant, e.g. domestic computing, affective computing, social computing, product design, online shopping, learning, and computer games
Skills
- must be able to account accurately for key design principles, guidelines, theories and models for user experience design
- must be able to use techniques such as cultural probes, acting-out, sketching, picture scenarios and personas to design and communicate user experiences
- must be able to use techniques for systematic assessment of user experience in an interaction design
Competences
must be able to apply and reflect on relevant theory, principles and techniques in an interaction design process where the focus is on user experience
Type of instruction
The teaching is organized in accordance with the general teaching methods for the education, cf. section 17.
Extent and expected workload
The student is expected to spend 27.5 hours per ECTS, which for this activity means 137.5 hours.
Exam
Exams
| Name of exam | Interaction Design 6: User Experience |
| Type of exam | Written or oral exam |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
| Type of grading | Internal examination |
| Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures |
Additional information
Contact: Study Board for Computer Science via cs-sn@cs.aau.dk or 9940 8854
Facts about the module
| Danish title | Interaktionsdesign 6: User Experience |
| Module code | DSNIXDB602 |
| Module type | Course |
| Duration | 1 semester |
| Semester | Spring
|
| ECTS | 5 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Empty-place Scheme | Yes |
| Location of the lecture | Campus Aalborg |
| Responsible for the module |
Organisation
| Education owner | Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Interaction Design |
| Study Board | Study Board of Computer Science |
| Department | Department of Computer Science |
| Faculty | The Technical Faculty of IT and Design |
