Module: User Experience Design

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	User Experience Design
Module Code	HS2 (ITS) / ICT1008 (Banner)
Faculty	Engineering & Computing	School	Electronic Engineering
Module Co-ordinator	Richard Bolger
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	15
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

This course develops students' understanding of cognitive and social psychology and organisational theory, as they apply to the design and use of interactive systems. The course enables students to use the resulting knowledge, in conjunction with the tools and procedures learned in HS1, to understand users' needs, develop prototype interactive systems and evaluate those systems.

Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate interaction design using research on human information processing.
2. Discuss emotional aspects of the user experience
3. Assess the impact of computer mediation on social and organisational processes
4. Explain, using examples, the psychological processes involved in organizing, including group processes, helping, impression formation, and influence.
5. Evaluate research on how IxD mediates organisational practice.
6. Work in teams with classmates online.
7. Present the findings from their work orally and in writing.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Tutorial	25	Face-to-face tutorials are held in DCU on Saturdays and online tutorials on weekday evenings according to the timetable
Online activity	55	Interaction with tutor and fellow students
Group work	70	Work in groups on assignments over the course of the academic year
Assignment Completion	90	Work independently and in groups on three assignments
Assessment Feedback	10	Individual and general feedback on assignments
Independent Study	125	Reading, study, research and problem solving
Total Workload: 375

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

User cognition and design
- What makes users attend to stimuli? - Perception of stimuli - Memory and user mental models - Reasoning and Decision Making - Model of Everyday Action - Implications for usability and the user experience

User affect and design
- Motivation and Goals - Emotional Processing - Three level model of Emotional Design - Technology as Experience Model - Persuasive Design

Designing to support user communication
- Theories of Communication - Making Collaboration Work - Computer Mediated Collaborative Work

Designing to support users in groups
- Group and Team Processes - Influencing Others - Relationships at Work - Virtual Teams - Cultures

Designing to support people working in organisations
- Sociotechnical Systems Theory - Multitasking - Distributed Working - Technology and Organisational Structures

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Written assignment	30%	Week 11
Assignment	Written assignment	35%	Week 22
Assignment	Written assignment	35%	Week 30

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Ulla Erikssonzetterquist, Tomas Mullern and Alexander Styhre: 2012, Organization theory: A practice-based approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
Colin Robson and Kieran McCartan: 2015, Real World Research, 4th edition, John Wiley & Sons,
Bucanan, D.A. & Huczynski, A: 2016, Organizational behavior, Pearson, New York,
Lazar, R: 2017, Research methods in human computer interaction, 2nd, Morgan Kaufmann, Cambridge, MA,
Norman, D.: 2013, The design of everyday things, Basic Books, New York,
Preece, J., Sharpe, H., and Rogers, Y: 2015, Interaction design: Beyond human-computer interaction, 4th, Wiley, Chichester,
Spielman, R.M: 2017, Psychology, OpenStax, Texas,
Unger and Chandler: 2012, A project guide to UX Design, New Riders, Berkeley,

Other Resources

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