ADVT: Advanced Topics in Interactive Systems

News

8/3/12

Please provide feedback on the module - on any of the individual classes and the module overall.

2/3/12

There is a change to the timetable. Feedback on your Extended Abstracts will be available on 15 March and there will be a timetabled session to discuss the feedback.

24/2/12

The assessment specification is now on line.

15/2/12

Thursday classes have been moved to smaller rooms. See the timetable below, but in summary they will be in:

Week 6
CSE/102-3
Week 7
RCH/204
Week 8
LMB/020

Week 9 still has to be sorted out.

12/1/12

The programme is now complete. There are a few classes lacking details - such as a title - but we can expect a good programme of classes for the term.

Outline

This module is presented to MSc students on the HCIT and SMIT programmes in the Spring Term. It consists of a series of master classes, mostly presented by external speakers.

Coordinator

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Alistair Edwards

Scope

This 20-credit module is taught to students on the MSc programmes on Human-Centred Interaction Technologies and Social Media and Interactive Technologies. It will be presented in Spring Term 2012.

Timetable

There will be no classes in Week 10.

Titles link to separate pages for each of the classes.

Term
week		 Class 1
Monday 0915-1115		 Class 2
Thursday 1515-1715
Number Date Title Lecturer
(Host if not ADNE)		 Room Number Date Title Lecturer
(Host if not ADNE)		 Room
2 1 16/1/12 Introduction and Briefing Alistair Edwards LMB/037X 2 19/1/12 What is Multimodality? Alistair Edwards LMB/030-1
3 3 23/1/12 Research in Practice Chandra Harrison LMB/037X 4 26/1/12 Design for the web: Frameworks and Metaphors Sian Lindley LMB/030-1
4 5 30/1/12 Cross-cultural design Lidia Oshlyansky LMB/037X 6 2/2/12 Can we do a better mail merge? Thomas Green LMB/030-1
5 7 6/2/12 Using dialogical methods to understanding experience Tuck Leong LMB/037X 8 9/2/12 Are we human or are we children? Janet Read LMB/030-1
6 9 13/2/12 Multimodality Steve Brewster LMB/037X 10 16/2/12 Research through Design Abi Durrant CSE/102-3
7 11 20/2/12 Assessment briefing Alistair Edwards LMB/037X 12 23/2/12 The social experience of gaming Paul Cairns
(PC) 		RCH/204
8 13 27/2/12 (TBA) Chris Power
(CP)		 LMB/037X 14 1/3/12 Forms Design: What really matters to users Caroline Jarrett LMB/020
9 15 5/3/12 Access to the Web for disabled and older people Chris Power LMB/037X 16 8/3/12 (No class)
10 17 12/3/12 (No class) 18 15/3/12 Assessment paper outline feedback Alistair Edwards CSE/240

Description

Every computer system interacts - at some level - with people. The obvious, visible example is the PC, but it also include a huge diversity of systems, including: telephones, washing machines, cars, cashpoints, websites, games consoles and call centres. In other words, the interface which users often interact with is something very different from the conventional keyboard, mouse and screen that is often envisaged as the human-computer interface. The purpose of this module is to broaden the horizons of the students, to make them think about and to give them some experience of the richer range of interactions. These interaction styles are already diverse, but will only become even more so as the technology advances. This module will consist entirely of a set of Master Classes. Topics and reference material will be announced in advance and students will be expected to prepare for each class, not only to receive a presentation from the presenter, but to be able to engage in a discussion on the important questions surrounding the topic.

Format

This module will take the form of a number of Master Classes presented by members of the department and external speakers, on their specialist topics. It is assumed that there will be a common - but not prescriptive - format:

Reading
Students will be given readings (e.g. one or two research papers) that they are expected to read in advance of the class.
Presentation
The presentations will be two-hour sessions in a teaching room. It is expected that these will not consist of two hours of one-way communication from the lecturer to the class, but rather that there will be interaction. Students will have read the background material and will be expected to be able to comment on it and to answer questions as well as asking them.

Forum

The module has its own on-line forum where students and staff can discuss topics of relevance to the module.

Twitter

Follow the module on Twitter (UoY_AIT)

Feedback

Feedback is solicited for each of the classes. Please see the individual class web pages.

We would also like to collect feedback for the module overall. Please fill in the short form which is available.

Assessment

The module will be assessed by an essay, which will be issued on Monday Week 7 Spring Term, for submission by Wednesday Week 1, Summer Term. Students will be allowed to chose the title of their paper. There will be a briefing on the assessments. Students will then have time to think of a topic which they will summarize in a brief proposal. The proposal will have to be approved. Assessments will be submitted electronically, using the Department's submission system.

The assessment specification is now on line.

References and links