DEA 5520

Virtual Experience of Designed Environments

Course Description

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

This course will immerse students in advanced techniques of design communication and evaluation for simulation-based research on user experience in designed environments. Through lectures, readings, demos, and hands on exercises, the course explores advanced visualization media for design and design research.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: working knowledge and experience in 3D modeling and rendering.

Permission Note Primarily for: juniors interested in honors theses, seniors and graduate students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2023SP, 2021SP, 2020SP

Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate a coherent understanding of design and design research with advanced computer mediated 3D visualization technologies in the field of architecture, interior design, and user experience/interface design.
• Students will apply analytic knowledge from readings and discussions to critically review and evaluate existing theories in interdisciplinary areas of environment and behavior, environmental psychology, design communication and human-computer interaction.
• Students will brainstorm viable and innovative research topics and learn how to start and finish an experimental study from readings, lectures, demos, and discussions.
• Students will propose mini studies of their own based on selected experimental research frameworks and conduct preliminary user experience experiments (with as few as five subjects).
• Students will learn and demonstrate advanced 3D visualization skills required for experimental stimuli development.

Distribution Category (LAD-HE)

When Offered Spring.

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