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2019 Archive

User Experience Engineering: New Interfaces, Cognitive and Affective Computing, Intelligent and Adaptive Systems

This DTU course in user experience (UX) engineering January 7-25, 2019 (Lectures in B341#A021 and group work in B358 #H064,#H067 and #H068), is focused on applying lean methods to design novel app interfaces incorporating aspects of augmented reality, affective and cognitive computing, emotion recognition and intelligent systems, using high-level prototyping tools like Marvell/POInVision or Axure to build functional prototypes.

Taking an agile approach to formulate user needs as hypotheses which are iteratively validated, Lean UX provides a methodological framework for rapid prototyping of MVP minimum viable products, centred on incorporating only the most essential features, while reducing time to market based on reuse of design patterns.

The course schedule will consist of daily student presentations / lectures monday through friday starting at 08:00 followed by group work (list of groups found here) focused on the weekly assignments.. All students will be required to upload their updated prototype designs on daily basis, so they will be accessible for everyone to view and test online. The morning sessions will include discussions of a subset of the uploaded student presentations, focused on demonstrating the topics introduced the previous day, plus at the end a short lecture introducing the concepts behind the assignments to be prepared for the rest of the day.

Thus, a rough program for monday to thursday is as follows:

 
08:00-09:00 Lecture with Feedback and Topic Introduction
09:00-12:00 Group work
12:00 Noon Hand-In on Campusnet
13:00-13:30
13:00-14:00
Presentation of selected Hand-Ins and Feedback
(Some days instead a guest lecture)
13:30-16:00/17:00 Group work
15:59/17:00 Afternoon Hand-In (sometimes to PeerGrade)
16:00-17:00 PeerGrading of other projects (sometimes)
 
For fridays, the program looks like this:
 
08:00-11:00 Group Presentations and Live Feedback to/from all
11:00-16:00 Group work
17:00 Weekly Hand-In of Final Reports w/appendices on Campusnet
 

There will be three different design themes, one for each of the three weeks, meaning, the course work will be evaluated on a weekly basis, with final iterations of the interface prototypes to be uploaded each thursday with subsequent presentations of these during a friday morning session each week, and completion of a small report to be uploaded by friday afternoon.

The report should be based on the 2-column ACM SIG Proceedings template (part of ACM Master Article Template). A "working" template for this course has been uploaded to Campnusnet file share. The .zip can directly be uploaded to e.g. ShareLatex/OverLeaf. There is also a word file that you may be able to use alternatively (use at your own risk!).

Reading material related to the three design themes will be made available on a weekly basis, and as general background reading material for the course we will use Laura Klein's "UX for lean startups"
 

Slack channel for the course:

Sign up (from a @dtu.dk email address) through this link.

Group sheet:

Add your group here.

Lecturer:

Per Bækgaard / pgba@dtu.dk / 40502574

Guest Lecturers (tentatively):

Jakob Bardram

Pegah Hafiz

John Paulin Hansen

Dan R. Persson and Thomas B. Thomsen

Andrea Bravo

Teaching Assistants:

Pegah Hafiz

Amalie Kammeyer

Raju Maharjan


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