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Course: 2023/2024

Interactive Ecosystems

(17643)

Bachelor in Management and Technology (2020 Study Plan) (Plan: 393 - Estudio: 351)

Coordinating teacher: ZARRAONANDIA AYO, TELMO AGUSTIN

Department assigned to the subject: Computer Science and Engineering Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 3º

Semester: 2º

Objectives

The Interactive Ecosystems course centers on understanding and working, in a theoretical and practical way, with complex ecosystems featuring technology, as well as multiple socio-espatial and cultural components. As part of the course, students analyze, reflect, and discuss complex interactive ecosystems. Further, students learn and practice the design of technology to support (solve, mitigate, etc.) relevant social problems. Successfully finishing the course means developing capacities to: - Understand, analyze and work with complex situations involving existing and future technology. - Innovate with technology, proposing technical solutions to socially relevant problems. - Be able to lead and implement classical and innovative analysis and design processes with rigor and validity, which conclude in innovative socio-technical systems that may create new business opportunities

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1. Human centered informatics 2. Paradigms, styles and principles of interaction 2.1. Ubiquitous computing and IoT; Social computing; embodied interaction; Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality; CSCW (computer supported collaborative work) 3. Design approaches 3.1. User-centered design (UCD) and participatory design (PD) 3.2. Usability and User Experience (UX) 3.3. Design thinking 4. Designing and prototyping of interactive ecosystems 4.1. Classical and innovative design and prototyping techniques 4.2. Problem framing, divergent, and convergent design 5. Evaluation 5.1. Evaluation kinds: internal and external, with and without users, formative and summative.

Learning activities and methodology

Theoretical/practical classes. 2 ECTS. Classroom presentations by the teacher with IT and audiovisual support in which the subject's main concepts are developed, while providing material and bibliography to complement student learning. Resolution of practical cases and problem, posed by the teacher, and carried out individually or in a group Individual or group work. 3 ECTS. Necessary work to learn the course content and apply this knowledge to the understanding, analysis, critical reflexion, and design of interactive systems and their impact in the physical and sociotechnical ecology where it will be used. Final Exam. 1 ECTS. Necessary work to prepare for the final exam Tutoring sessions. Individual or group follow up sessions to clarify theoretical or practical questions.

Assessment System

FINAL EXAM. 30%. Assessing knowledge, skills, and capacities learned and practiced during the course.
CONTINUOUS EVALUATION 70%. Assessing deliverables, presentations, engagement in debates and class presentations, exercises, practical exercises and work in workshops during the course.


In particular, students will submit 3 individual analytical and critical thinking exercises (10% of the score), and a group project (60% of the score).

To pass the course, it is mandatory to obtain a minimum score of 3 out of 10 in the final exam; and 3 out of 10 in the continuous evaluation. It is mandatory to present at least an individual exercise. 


The students who do not pass the course in the ordinary call, will have an extraordinary call to pass the course, involving an extra ordinary call exam:
1. If the student followed the continuous evaluation: the course grade is established by the course progamme for the ordinary call (exam, 30%; continuous evaluation, 70%; minimun grade of 3 out of 10 to pass each of these parts). Nevertheless, the student will be graded only with the grade in the final exam if this grade was more favourable. 

2. If the student did not follow the continuous evaluation, the course grade will reflect the grade in the final extraordinary call exam. Nevertheless, the coordinator may authorise the deliverable of the continuous evaluation exercises in the extraordinary call, in which case the final grade would be assessed the same way than in the ordinary call.

% end-of-term-examination 30
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 70

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Basic Bibliography

Helen Sharp, Jennifer Preece, & Yvonne Rogers. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. John Wiley & Sons. . 2019.
Kim Goodwin and Alan Cooper. Designing for the digital Age. Wiley. 2009

Additional Bibliography

Amy J. Ko . Design methods. Creative Commons License (https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/books/design-methods/). 2018
Bill Buxton. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann. 2007
Bill Moggridge. Designing Interactions. MIT Press. 2007
Don Norman. The Design of Everyday Things. Basic Books. 2013
Eric von Hippel. Democratizing Innovation. MIT Press. 2005
Lars-Erik Janlert and Erik Stolterman. Things that keep us busy. MIT Press. 2017

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.