General description

Corresponding course unit in the curriculum 2015-2107, School of Information Sciences
TIEVS54 Emotions and Sociality in Interactive Technology, 5 ECTS

Learning outcomes

After this course the student
1. Understands and is able to explain central factors of human intra- and inter-individual behavior.
2. Is able to evaluate the meaning of social and emotion related processes in all human behavior including, cognition, motivation, intra- and inter-individual functioning, as well as all this in human-technology context.
3. Is able to describe central concepts of social and affective processes.
4. Learns to understand and realize how these factors could and should be used and utilized to develop human-technology/human-computer interaction.
5. Knows thematic literature and is able to evaluate it critically.
6. Understands the requirements for acquiring theoretical and empirical knowledge, and for developing good quality research setups when working in this thematic area of human-technology interaction.

Contents

The course consists of a series of lectures and discussions about nonverbal communication, the neural and biological basis of communication and emotions, interconnections between emotions and cognition and motivation, and human?computer interaction.

Evaluation

Belongs to following study modules

2018–2019

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

HTIS54 Emotions and Sociality in Human-Technology Interaction