Software & Information Engineering - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

• Work in teams on reection and design problems;
• Be able to discuss technologies and needs with potential users;
• Come up with innovative ideas for interactive technologies;
• Approach open and ambiguous problem situations in a proactive and self-organized
way.
• Reect on their own work in a social, cognitive and cultural context.
Inhalt: Broad content areas include:
• History of ideas, technologies, markets and organizations in informatics
• Dissection of the interactions between technology and society
• Examination of exemplary areas of tension between ICT and society, such as copyright,
patents, vulnerability, privacy and security from multiple perspectives
• Discussion of current and past developments and trends in the aforementioned
areas
• Theories of Human perception, cognition and practice
• Theoretical foundation of user experience
• Design principles and interface design guidelines
• Conducting usability studies and expert evaluations of interactive systems
• Principles of a user centred interaction design process
• HCI related to dierent types of interactive software
Verpichtende Voraussetzungen: Keine.
Angewandte Lehr- und Lernformen und geeignete Leistungsbeurteilung: Courses in the
module are organized to require student to work in a self-organized, self-dependent and
reective way. Based on a suitable presentation of content (eg. lectures) students choose
from a catalog of predened suitable activities and exercises in order to hand in relevant,
in-depth work that shows their learning progress. These activities include, but are not
limited to, reading and reecting upon scientic literature, doing well-dened practical
exercises, discussing related issues with outside experts, peer-reviewing of other's work,
etc.
Lehrveranstaltungen des Moduls:
3.0/2.0 VU Gesellschaftliche Spannungsfelder der Informatik
3.0/2.0 VU Basics of Human Computer Interaction
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