This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be three periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2018-2019, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2019.

This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.

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Need inspiraton for thesis subject?

Have you already started planning your thesis? Do you need inspiration and ideas to come up with a reasonable thesis subject?

You are warmly welcome to meet us and learn about the M.Sc. Thesis process and to get thesis subject tips from the professors and teachers on
Wednesday 8th May, 16.00 in lounge, Pinni B1029-30.

Agenda:

- info about Thesis process, finding a supervisor and thesis subject areas, and

- discussion in smaller groups.

Optional enrollment in NettiOpsu.

If you already have questions/comments in mind about the meeting, please add the in NettiOpsu when enrolling.

Practical implementation:
The course covers different types of human-technology interaction including, e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality, tangible interaction, information visualization, public displays and wearable computing. For each type, an overview of past and current work from scientific literature is discussed and the concept of interaction technique works as the focal point throughout.

The course is graded pass/fail and passing the course requires the completion of weekly design and analysis exercises, giving a presentation on a given research paper, writing a blog post and participating in discussions during the meetings and on-line. Full remote participation is possible with per participant agreement. Meetings will be available on-line. Passing this part of the course will result in 5cu marking which can be expanded to 10cu by completing a project work where a prototype system is developed and evaluated. The project can be done during period IV, or with a special agreement, at later time.

Moodle is used during the course for communication and returning the exercises.

Teaching in period III, optional course work in period IV.

This course can be taken during B.Sc or M.Sc. studies.

You can not take HTIS85 Methods in Human-Centered Design if you have done:

• TIEVA38 Graphical User Interface Design Project, 
• TIEVA30 Käytettävyystyön menetelmät - Graafisen käyttöliittymän suunnittelun työkurssi (8 op) or
• TIEVS69 Human-Centered Design Project (TUT/TIE-41406).

Preceding studies

Some basic course in HCI (compulsory), e.g.

• Principles of Usability, User Experience and User Interfaces, or User Experience: Design and Evaluation;
• User Interface Design or corresponding course;
• Usability Evaluation Methods (compulsory, can be taken during same academic year).

Contents

The most common human-centered design (HCD) methods are learned both in theory and practice. The methods are introduced and discussed in the weekly meetings and learned in practice during the course work in small design projects.

The student will learn the most common HCD methods and techniques, including techniques for gathering, modeling and analyzing user research data, methods for specifying and designing products and services, and principles of interaction and interface design, and prototyping. These include, among others, observation, interviewing, consolidating models for interaction, artifacts, physical and cultural models, affinity diagrams, personas, scenarios, sketching, storyboarding, wireframes, design patterns, interactive UI mock-ups etc.

This course is implemented as a book exam in the electronic exam service Tenttis until 31/5/2019 and in EXAM starting from 1/6/2019.

This exam must be taken before participating the Experimental Research in Interactive Technology course. Therefore, it is a good idea to take the exam early on.

The questions in the exam will look a lot like the chapter titles or subtitles within chapters in the book (they may even be exactly the same). The idea is that in the answer you should write a brief essay that describes the main issues in the topic indicated. Remember to include examples in your answers to show how you would apply the concepts in a particular situation. The idea of the exam is to test how completely you have learned the material in the book. Other material that is not mentioned in the book may earn points, but not with the same efficiency as the material in the book. If you are not familiar with book exams, you may find the instructions for preparing for book exams helpful (Finnish, English).

The exam is set up with a number of questions in the electronic exam service. The system will randomly display five questions to each student taking the exam. Only four of the questions may be answered. If there are five answers, I will disregard the BEST answer in grading. The idea is to give some choice in which questions to answer (i.e. you do not have to know the whole book perfectly to get a good grade). However, you must choose which questions you want to answer. Fishing expeditions with five answers will be punished as explained above.

For questions, contact course supervisor.

Please note: in practice, this seminar is running continuously, and you can join the course also other times than September and January. Also, it is expected that you will participate in the seminar until you have finished your thesis.

Participation in classroom work and seminar and intermediate reports on the progress of the thesis work.

Who can participate

If you are planning to start your thesis or already working with it and you aim to finish the thesis in approximately one year, this seminar is for you.

You do not need to have a supervisor when the seminar begins. The first thing in the seminar will be topic selection and supervisor assignment.

The seminar has montly meetings, each lasting two and half hours. In each meeting, every student makes a presentation of his/her work and progress. Templates for each meeting will be given in the moodle. In addition, all pariticpants need to return a draft version of their thesis before each meeting.

There will be four (autumn) + five or six (spring) meetings. In order to get credits, students need to return their thesis and participate in all meetings (absence can be compensated with a separate agreement beforehand). There is also a remote connection possibility.

This is a Moodle course, all communication takes place in the course Moodle.

Please note: in practice, this seminar is running continuously, and you can join the course also other times than September and January. Also, it is expected that you will participate in the seminar until you have finished your thesis.

See https://info2019.tuni.fi/uta-student/
Sign-up for courses in NettiOpsu as before.
Use TUNI user account to log in to the Student?s desktop/NettiOpsu

Participation in classroom work and seminar and intermediate reports on the progress of the thesis work. Seminar continues on Fall term.

Who can participate

If you are planning to start your thesis or already working with it and you aim to finish the thesis in approximately one year, this seminar is for you.

You do not need to have a supervisor when the seminar begins. The first thing in the seminar will be topic selection and supervisor assignment.

The seminar has montly meetings, each lasting two and half hours. In each meeting, every student makes a presentation of his/her work and progress. Templates for each meeting will be given in the moodle. In addition, all pariticpants need to return a draft version of their thesis before each meeting.

There will be four (autumn) + five or six (spring) meetings. In order to get credits, students need to return their thesis and participate in all meetings (absence can be compensated with a separate agreement beforehand). There is also a remote connection possibility.

This is a Moodle course, all communication takes place in the course Moodle.

Enrollment in POP opens on 1.11.2018

See the description of the course https://youtu.be/i2OpsXZ8iQ4

Enrollment in POP starts on 1.11.2018

Practical implementation in 2019:

This is an intermediate level programming course. The course is implemented in parallel tracks: there are at least a Java-based and a web technology-based track. Additional tracks (Android, Python) may be available. Students can choose the track they want.

• The Java-based track requires basic Java programmin skills (e.g., TIEP1, TIEP5, TIEA2.1) and graphical user interface programming is done using Swing UI library using NetBeans IDE.

• The web technology-based track requires basic skills in JavaScript programming, HTML and CSS (e.g., TIETA9) and programming is done using React framework and Material-UI interface library.

Passing this part of the course will result in 5cu marking which can be expanded to 10cu by completing a project work. The project can be done during the summer, or with special agreement, at later time.

Exam available Electronically

Email Sumita Sharma before scheduling the exam for instructions and prep quidance!

The book exam for "There is no app for that" is available (Electronically).

General principles

For information on the mode of operation in the book, see the Exam instructions below.

The books that can be studied for this module can change from year to year. Each book has a separate examination. The credit points for the book exam can be included in the master's degree.

The Books That Can Be Taken for the Exam are available in the University Library and sometimes through other means as indicated below.

General advice is how to prepare for the exam is available in Finnish and in English.

Books

Robinson, S., Marsden, G. and Jones, M. There is no app for that. Mobile User Experience for Morgan Kaufmann, 2014, 443 pp.

• Gives 5 credit points. Grade is Pass / Fail.
• Examiner: Sumita Sharma
• Available online (requires basic user account for access) and two copies are coming soon at the university library.
• Exam: the exam is in English and is available electronically. Please confirm your Eligibility with the examnier before scheduling the exam.

Exam instructions

The mode of operation in the book exam is as follows:

1. The student studies a book.
2. The student emails the examiner, and then registers for the exam Electronically.
3. The student takes the exam, answering the questions received in the exam. The exam is a closed book exam, ie, the student can not have the book available in the exam.