DEA 5210

Interaction Design Studio

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Everyday things made interactive and adaptive by way of embedded systems have great promise to support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, play, interconnect, and age. Students will iteratively design, prototype and evaluate artful, meticulous, full-scale, cyber-physical things responsive to specific challenges of an increasingly digital society.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: DEA majors must have completed two DEA studio courses at the 2000 and 3000 level.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: DEA, FSAD, IS and MAE majors. Students outside of these majors require permission of instructor.

Fees Course fee: $60

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2020SP

Outcomes

• To grapple with under-constrained, "wicked" problems and opportunities of an increasingly digital society.
• To demonstrate an ability to design, prototype, and evaluate full-scale, interactive and adaptive things responsive to these problems and opportunities, and present them in a video.
• To demonstrate, in a written report, an ability to communicate the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the interactive prototypes, as well as assess their shortcomings.

When Offered Spring.

View Enrollment Information