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Module Title	Researching Interactions with Technology
Module Code	HSA
School	Open Education
Online Module Resources
Module Co-ordinator	Mr Seamus Fox	Office Number	D114
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	20
Pre-requisite	C1, CT1, HS2, MS001
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

A module which aims to raise students' awareness of the variety of experiences people have with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and to situate understanding of ICTs in the social and cultural contexts in which they are experienced and used.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain ICT use and experience from socio-cultural and ecological perspectives.
2. Evaluate the relationship between ICTs and organizational processes such as communicating, coordinating activities, sustaining working relationships, and making decisions.
3. Apply knowledge of social and organizational processes to the design and evaluation of ICTs.
4. Carry out empirical research on people s experiences with information and communication technology.
5. Assess the evidence on people s experience with a variety of information and communication technologies (e.g. mobile phones, internet, social networking).
6. Evaluate how ICTs mediate a variety of cultural practices (e.g. work, education, making and sustaining friendship, play).
7. Demonstrate teamworking skills and abilities such as: collaboration, coordination, communication, negotiation, project management.
8. Recognise the value of teamwork in learning and in project management.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Tutorial	16	No Description
Online activity	50	No Description
Independent Study	434	No Description
Total Workload: 500

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

THE CULTURES OF TECHNOLOGY (HSA)
From human factors to cultures: arguing that technology is a cultural as well as a technical and individual concern. For example it could take the analysis of error from Cognitive Ergonomics from individualistic analyses of human error to organisational analyses of safety – safety culture, accountability, responsibility, etc and the role of ICT in this culture. / Interrelationships between ICT and organising: introducing ICT into a culture that is resistant e.g. hospitals; will ICTs change the ways in which we think about organising, management, working etc. / Looking at ICTs as technologies, tools, media for relating, cultures, etc / Computer mediated communication: examples of systems and studies of experiences using them. / Computer Supported Cooperative Work: the role of technology in supporting work practices, experiences, cultures – again examples of some systems and experiences of use / Computer Supported Learning: the role of technology in supporting learning practices, experiences, cultures – examples of some systems and experiences of use / E-commerce: experiences of Internet branding, shopping, etc. / Relationships: making and sustaining friendships through ICT / ICT and control: management, democracy, privacy, trust, crime et

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
Unavailable

Indicative Reading List

Wallace, P.B.: 1999, The Psychology of the Internet, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
McCarthy, J. and Wright, P.: 2004, Technology as Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,

Other Resources

None

Programme or List of Programmes

HDID	Higher Diploma in Interaction Design
IS	BSc in Management of Info Tech/Info Syst
IT	BSc in Information Technology
ITS	Diploma/BSc in Information Technology

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