DEA 5210 - Interaction Design Studio

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: DEA majors must have completed two DEA studio courses at the 2000 and 3000 level. Enrollment preference given to: DEA, FSAD, IS and MAE majors. Students outside of these majors require permission of instructor. Course fee: $60

K. Green.

Everyday things made interactive and adaptive by way of embedded systems have great promise to support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, play, interconnect, and age. Students will iteratively design, prototype and evaluate artful, meticulous, full-scale, cyber-physical things responsive to specific challenges of an increasingly digital society.

Outcome 1: To grapple with under-constrained, “wicked” problems and opportunities of an increasingly digital society.

Outcome 2: To demonstrate an ability to design, prototype, and evaluate full-scale, interactive and adaptive things responsive to these problems and opportunities, and present them in a video.

Outcome 3: To demonstrate, in a written report, an ability to communicate the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the interactive prototypes, as well as assess their shortcomings.