This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This MSc module is concerned with designing mobile applications taking into account usability, accessibility and sociability. Students will evaluate current and future trends of interaction design and interface technologies in a mobile context. The module also encourages students to analyse critically human activities in order to identify innovative design solutions. Topics include activity modelling, economic theories for HCI, Internet of things, graphic design, universal design, etc.
Total contact hours: 30
Private study hours: 120
Total study hours: 150
Essay (20%)
Essay (80%)
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
1. Critically evaluate current and future trends of interaction design and interface technologies in a mobile context
2. Understand the differences between interaction design for desktop and mobile platforms, as well as the importance of usability for mobile applications
3. Carry out user research using appropriate techniques for various mobile platforms and derive useful design implications from the findings
4. Conduct effective usability evaluation using both user-based and expert-based evaluation techniques
5. Take into consideration various issues such as accessibility, sociability when designing mobile applications
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