About the course

This course is offered as part of a programme:

Interaction Design, Master's Programme (One-Year) Interaction Design, Master's Programme (One-Year) Interaction Design, Master's Programme (Two-Year) Interaction Design, Master's Programme (Two-Year)

Course content

Syllabus autumn 2023

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

1. Degree of Bachelor or equivalent in subjects relevant for interaction design. Examples of relevant subjects include, but are not limited to: computer science,

informatics, information systems, human-computer interaction, new media arts,

fine arts, design (industrial, product, graphic, interaction), communication studies,

media studies and cognitive science.

2. Approval of the following submitted material: 2 x work samples of previous

relevant work and an individual response to the application assignment, available

on the Malmö University web site.

3. General eligibility + the equivalent of English course B in Swedish higher

secondary school.

Course literature

  • Dourish, Paul. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
  • Dourish, Paul. “Epilogue: Where the action was, wasn't, should have been, and might yet be”. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 20, 1, Article 2 (April 2013), 1-4.
  • Höök, Kristina. Designingwith the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design. MIT Press, 2018.
  • Kozel, Susan. “Re-Embodiment: new strategies for teaching Embodied Interaction.” Proceedings for CUMULUS Kolding, 2017, 107-116.
  • Light, Ann. “HCI as heterodoxy: Technologies of identity and the queering of interaction with computers”. Interacting with Computers Vol.23, Issue 5, 2011, 430-438.
  • McFadden, Syreeta. “Teaching the Camera To See My Skin: Navigating photography’s inherited bias against dark skin.”Buzzfeed, 2014.

Plus additional texts selected on a yearly basis to support the course work.

Materials:

Students will be expected to purchase a basic electronicskit.Details to be provided at the start of the academic year.

Course evaluation

Plenary discussion and individual written evaluation, focusing on the learning outcomes and the means for achieving them (learning activities, resources, course organization etc.).

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Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

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