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    Due to overlapping courses, the lectures/events are rescheduled to take place on Fridays 14-16!

    This course is targeted for students of USchool minor at Aalto and University of Helsinki. It takes place as a set of lectures/visits and online events to the three organizing units/departments (Aalto SCI, Aalto ARTS, UH Cognitive Science).

    After the completion of the course, the students understand a) the foundations and scope of human-centred design, and b) the need for and practices in multidisciplinary design. Furthermore, the intent is to get familiar with other students and teachers from the participating universities/disciplines.

    Participation to all lectures/visits is mandatory. Passing the course requires participation at the lectures and completion of the group assigments including the presentation of the group work results.

    Due to the still somewhat remaining covid-19 situation in autumn 2021, many of the events are arranged online.

    Cross-university access to the online learning systems is a tiny challenge and may take some time for the new students. Therefore, we aim at keeping the participation to the initial events as openly available as possible.

    Schedule and Content

    Friday 24.9.2021 14:15 - 16:00 Opening lecture / Aalto SCI (Marko Nieminen) (Zoom: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67702677699?pwd=VVU3VEVVd2J1R1ltbnJVaXhZOEZlQT09). The slides include the members of the student group and description of the Aalto SCI assignment for the groups. The groups are requested to present the results of this assignment at the lecture on Fri 12.11.2021. Slides are available here.

    Friday 1.10.2021 14:15 - 16:00 University of Helsinki / Cognitive Science (Anna-Mari Rusanen). (Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/64587836894?pwd=Qmo5Qmd6aDdzL3hKWVpYV3EvSnVrZz09).

    Friday 8.10.2021 14:16 - 16:00 Aalto ARTS lecture (Virpi Roto) (Zoom: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67702677699?pwd=VVU3VEVVd2J1R1ltbnJVaXhZOEZlQT09). Slides are available here.

    Assignment presentations by student groups: (groups formed during the initial lectures):

    Friday 12.11.2021 14:15-16:00 Presentation of student group assignments announced at Aalto SCI (24.9.), (possible physical location/arrangment to be announced). Each group (1, 2, 3) gives a 15-minute presentation of their selected topic (introduction to the chosen "application", background, aim and focus of the work, approach and conceptual framing), work (process, method, steps) and outcome (results, conclusions, recommendations, future work) followed by a discussion/comments by all participants (you may identify some similarities with the "IMRAD" logic in this presentation structure). Groups should prepare for an online presentation, too. Zoom link is: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67702677699?pwd=VVU3VEVVd2J1R1ltbnJVaXhZOEZlQT09

    Friday 19.11.2020 14:15 - 16:00  in room R113, Väre (Otaniementie 14)  Presentations of the design assignment. (Virpi Roto, Aalto ARTS)

    Friday 26.11.2020 14:15 - 16:00 University of Helsinki, Cognitive science (Anna-Mari Rusanen) Link to this Zoom session is the following:  https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69143087376?pwd=SlJ1NkVyT3pQNnEza3cydXJseDR4dz09


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      Lecture 1 / opening lecture: Introduction to USchool. HCI as an academic domain. Overview of Aalto SCI courses for USchool.

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