Sketching Interactive Systems

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Lecturer: Željko Obrenović Email: z.obrenovic@tue.nl Course OWInfo

Introduction

The main goal of the course is to teach students how to sketch and build novel interactive systems without intensive programming and engineering knowledge, using simple tools, few trick and lots of imagination. No particular expertise is required, just basic knowledge about computing and computer usage, and creative thinking.

More specifically, during the assignment, students are going to:

• Learn how to build sketches of interactive systems without intensive programming and engineering.
• Get an overview of working methods of innovative interactive systems designers.
• Exercise imagination and creativity, and learn how to observe the world to find interesting workarounds, hacks and clever improvisations.
• Learn how to extend the traditional practice of sketching to other forms than just pencil and paper, in order to deal with attributes of the overall user experience, such as time, phrasing, and feel.

Students are going to learn how to explore and communicate novel ideas through sketching and prototyping of interactive systems that use novel modalities such as speech input and output, camera based sensing, or input from Wii devices (see http://amico.sf.net/amico-demos.html and http://www.vip.id.tue.nl/ for illustration of types of applications that we plan to cover in the course).

Target Competency Areas

• Integrating Technologies
• Ideas and Concepts