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.

The focus of this course is to learn how to collaborate in multidisciplinary interaction design teams, where team members have different knowledge profiles. Collaboration and multidisciplinarity are treated as first-order subjects, which means that they are studied, problematized, taught, and reflected upon in and through interaction design practice.. The main activity is studio design practice, drawing salient themes and contents from key fields of interaction design.

The course has dual sets of learning outcomes:

Fundamental perspectives on, as well as techniques for, multidisciplinary collaboration in interaction design.

Key interaction design elements (e.g. behaviour, attributes, adaptivity etc.) in genres such as mobile interaction, social media, and tangible interaction.

Key interaction design skills and techniques such as informal techniques for understanding use situations, synthesis & creative reframing, interaction ideation & sketching (e.g. scenarios, lo-fi prototypes, etc.), and user-oriented evaluation as well as design critique.

1. Developing a basic understanding of collaboration and multidisciplinarity in interaction design.

2. Building a repertoire of mainstream interaction design elements and canonical interaction designs.

3. Displaying ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams in understanding use situations and sketching interaction design.

4. Displaying ability to execute interaction design skills and techniques.

5. Reflecting on the nature of multidisciplinary collaboration in interaction design.

6. Displaying ability to participate constructively in design critique and user-oriented evaluation.

Reflective seminars, individual assignments and group assignments on multidisciplinary collaboration.

Studio-based learning of key interaction design elements, skills and techniques. Studio work is performed in multidisciplinary teams and forms the practical basis for reflection on, and experimentation with, multidisciplinary collaboration.

Learning outcomes pertaining to multidisciplinary collaboration are assessed through individual assignments. Specifically, such assignments are used to assess learning outcomes 1 and 5.

The other main assessment activity is oral group examination of the design-studio variety known as studio crits. In those assessment sessions, learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 6 and are assessed.

Bardzell & Bardzell (2015): Humanistic HCI. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, Morgan and Claypool

Buxton, W (2007): Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design,Elsevier/Morgan Kaufman

Complemented with online resources such as http://www.interaction-design.org/

The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints with regards to

the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations as well as informing participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).