WiSe 23/24: Implementation Project: Coding IxD
Claudia Müller-Birn
Additional information / Pre-requisites
The current topic can be found on the HCC research group website and on the course page (www.codingixd.org).
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The course takes place in cooperation with the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. We meet every Wednesday in the laboratory of the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Sophienstrasse 22a, 2.HH, 2nd floor, 10178 Berlin
www.matters-of-activity.de/en/
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Coding IxD: Designing Neoanalog Artefacts
In this course, we co-educate computer scientists and product designers. Besides a first-hand experience in interdisciplinary work, we want students to envision interactive systems that are intelligent: by this, we mean intelligence through code that is carefully using material, form, and context, while profoundly respecting both human capabilities and vulnerabilities.
We understand this course as an experimental space, where different perspectives meet, exchange, and evolve. Each semester, students are challenged to examine a specific application context, based on small project teams of up to five members. Within this context, the teams envision a new application or product concept.
We guide this process through various carefully tuned methods that are used to spark their ideas. Students iterate through several rounds of ideation and refine their concepts in different prototype versions. The most compelling or promising interaction concept, the one that allows grasping the quality and essence of the product concept, will be implemented in a working prototype.
Students are advised by a team of experienced designers and computer scientists but also by guest experts that provide feedback on the various design iterations. If needed, special workshops are organized to cover specific topics ranging from prototyping to project management. The whole course is evaluated continuously to enhance our methodological toolbox.
This course offering is a cooperation of the Human-Centered Computing Research Group at the Institute of Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Product Design Department at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (KHB).
Besides the regular weekly meetings, we provide rapid-prototyping workshops.
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Zimmerman, John, Jodi Forlizzi, and Shelley Evenson. Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2007.
Pierce, James, et al. "Expanding and refining design and criticality in HCI." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015.
Jansen, Yvonne, et al. “Opportunities and Challenges for Data Physicalization.” Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015.
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Regular appointments