Eksperimentelt design i praksis (Spring 2025)

Abstract

In this course, students will plan, implement, evaluate and report on a design experiment in which interaction with connected technology is in focus. The programming language JavaScript will be used to for controlling and manipulating the mobile phone hardware components, which will serve as the infrastructure for experimentation.

NB: Kurset undervises på dansk i foråret 2024

Description

The course allows the students to move away from a pre-defined or functional design agenda to explore digital and interactive design from other perspectives. This enables the students to re-think, hence re-evaluate, and deepen their understanding of their existing competences and digital design methods and tools while acquiring specific new knowledge (both theoretical and applied) on Experimental Design processes and projects. 

The course and project will have a dominant technical part where the students will design interactions with networked devices, in order to expose the students to critical reflections on elements of interaction and resulting user experiences. It will explore multi-sensor scenarios in connected devices, which will be experimented with through a perspective of  Internet of Things, ubiquitous computing, and device interconnectivity. 

NB: Kurset undervises på dansk i foråret 2024

Formal prerequisites

The course builds upon knowledge from the 1st semester programming courses and students should have completed either one of those courses. 

Intended learning outcomes

Efter kurset skal den studerende være i stand til:

• Conduct and report on design experiments in which (networked) interaction is in focus.
• Develop and analyse digital design prototypes with pure JavaScript and a minimum of libraries.
• Critically reflect on the issues and principles underlying an experimental design process, including experiment initiation, execution, evaluation and articulation.

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