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Senast uppdaterad: April 16th, 2010 Now, we are using the google group to help with communication. All of you have been invited to participate the group. If any of you was not invited, please send an e-mail to Fang Chen soon: fanch@chalmers.se Home exam shall be submitted by e-mail. The title of the e-mail: HCD home exam The file better save in pdf format The name of the file shall be: HCD exam_(Your name) On the first page of the exam, you shall provide the following information: your name, your ID number and your e-mail address. Instruction on how to write the project report can be download here. About the detail requirements of the course, please go to read my OH on introduction. Short intruction for project work: 1. You need to find one (maybe a few to start with) company whose product is used by people, so the usability of the products is important for the company. 2. Take detail look of the website of the company and to understand better of their products 3. Contact with the leader of the company and present yourself and your purpose of the project 4. Before contacting the company, you need to have a careful thinking about what you like to do with them, and what cooperation you need from them, and what they can get by the end. 5. If the company accept you to do the project, you need to have a good plan and a schedule. 6. People in company normally are busy, so you need to book the time with them for your study in advance 7. Find the right methods for your study! 8. You need to check different references, so there are theories and earlier studies to support the methods and the process you have developed. The requirements of the industrial project: 1. What design process the company is used to develop their products 2. How important it is to improve the usability of their products 3. To develop an applicable design process that the usability of the product is considered. 4. The process is practically feasible for that company. 5. The process shall be presented to the company and they shall appreciate it. You can get the instruction from here Requirement of the course Learning Outcomes Having successfully completed this course, the student is expected to have reached the following theoretical and practical goals. Theoretical goals:
Practical goals:
The course consists of both theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part will present the history and development of human-centered design from research to industrial applications. Relevant design theories and process, such as user-centered design process, ecological interface design methods and design for pleasure products will be covered in the course. Literature seminars provide additional theoretical grounding and reflection. The practical parts consist of laboratory practice of different lab and carry out an investigation project at industry.
Lecturers Fang Chen, Docent, Associate Professor Course
Materials:
Time
schedule Lectures are given
from March 17 to
May 7th. There will be 2 hrs lectures in the morning and 2 hrs labs in
the afternoon. The lectures are obligation for students to participate.
The labs are strongly recommeded for the students to participate. The
students shall be divided into groups with 3 students in each group.
May 15, submit the individual reports (regarded
as home examinations) Location
at the IT University, Lindholmen campus Examinations The course is required to
attend 80% of lectures. A student who has failed
the examination
twice has the right to change examiner. Request for change of examiner
should
be put in writing to the Faculty Board of the IT-university. The detail about
examinations can be found from course introduction, Marks The course is graded with the following marks: U, 3, 4, 5. The student can request to get the marks translated to the ECTS standard after consulting the examiner. Evaluation Upon the completion of
the course, there
will be a written evaluation that conforms to the current evaluation
standards
of the IT University. Questions of lectures from each group:
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