Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:49:34 GMT Server: Apache/1.0.5 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2677 Last-modified: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:29:14 GMT
Instructors:
Ellen Tauber, Interval Research Corporation
Terry Winograd, Computer Science
David Kelley, Product Design/Mechanical Engineering
Time Schedule Information:
CS447A/ME293A, Winter 1996
1 unit, Thursday 4:15-5:45 PM, History, room 217
CS447B/ME293B, Spring 1996
5 units, time and place to be announced
Course Description:
Students work in small, interdisciplinary project teams to develop
innovative technology prototypes to be submitted to an international
student design event sponsored by Interval Research Corporation.
Course material will focus on software and hardware interfaces, interaction, and design aesthetics, as well as some of the underpinnings of successful design: a reflective, iterative design process, group dynamics of effective interdisciplinary teamwork, and working with users. Group work and opportunities to develop skills by identifying resources.
Students from a wide variety of disciplines, including Computer Science, the Design Division of Mechanical Engineering, the Social Sciences (for example, communication, psychology, education), and the professional schools, including Business and Medicine, are encouraged to join the class and can play a major role in the success of their teams.
Because the course is based on interdisciplinary teams, there is no general pre-requisite. Rather, students should have depth of knowledge in one of the relevant disciplines. The spring quarter course will be limited to 25 students and requires that the student have taken the winter quarter course. Priority will be given to those who will not be able to take the course in the future, and by needs to balance the teams by discipline.
Click here for course syllabus.