IFD:MobileMediaDesign-SS16

IFD: Mobile Media Design - SS16

Fachmodul
Lecturer: Joatan Preis Dutra
Credits: 6 ECTS, 2 SWS
Date: Mondays, 14:30 - 16:45h
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, Room 106
First meeting: 18 April 2016

Description

This course is designed for media students who are interested in an introduction about how the mobile media are present in our society, and how it interacts with public urban spaces, and how it can be related to cultural heritage content, through mobile devices gadgets.

Nowadays, mobile technology is present on most part of people’s daily life and belongs to the people’s routine.

If the technology can bring the world in a small scale of a mobile screen by enhancing the museums and galleries possibilities, the portable technology can also add elements to the real world, changing the perception of urban spaces and its cultural heritage content. There are no more limitations about space, neither about the opening hours to provide to the visitors a complete and empowered cultural experience.

A mobile App could also work for ICT for tourism, and Weimar is a perfect applied scenario to develop touristic apps, dealing with UNESCO’s World Heritage places in Weimar.

This course also has an important practical part, where the students will learn Mobile Interface guidelines, developing a mock-up app prototype for UNESCO's World Heritage Sites in Weimar.

This course is an invitation to theoretical and practical perspectives to observe mobile media and in urban scenarios, addressed for cultural purposes. It is a methodological and creative approach to analyze the mobile media role for cultural heritage.

IMPORTANT: You don't need previous knowledge in Android, iOS or even any type of programming skills. This class is more focused on the design and navigation aspects.

Target Group

Master students in the Faculty of Media / Faculty of Art and Design

• Media Art and Design, MFA
• MediaArchitecture
• Media Management
• Computer Science and Media
• Media Culture

(Bachelor students are welcome, despite the class will be in English)

Language

The course and activities will be held in the English language.

Registration Procedure

CLOSED

Please send your application by email with:
* Subject: MobileMediaDesign-SS16 to: joatan.preis.dutra (at) uni-weimar.de
* Name (Family Name), Surname (Given Name)
* Program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
* Matriculation number (Matrikelnummer)
* Valid email address @uni-weimar.de (no other mailing addresses will be accepted) Why?
* Country of Origin (for course statistics)

For any other e-mail exchange, please use [MMD] at the beginning of subject.

Grading

• 60% Presentation of the app prototype (photoshop, html, etc)
• 40% submission of a short paper (3 to 5 pages, ACM or APA Style)

- Participation on side activities will reflect on the final grade.

Schedule and Files

• 18.04
  • MMD 01 - Introduction
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 01 - Introduction
    
    
  • MMD 02 - Media & Mediatization
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 02 - Media & Mediatization

• 25.04
  • MMD 03 - Mobile Media & Apps
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 03 - Mobile Media
    
    
  • MMD 04 - UNESCO WHS Tourism in Germany / Project Description
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 04 - Cultural Heritage

• 06.05 at 23:59 - deadline of Home-Task 1: WHS App Quantitative Evaluation

• 09.05
  • MMD 05 - Mobile Guidelines
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 05 - Mobile Guidelines
    
    
  • MMD 06 - Icon Design / Project Consultation
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 06 - Icon Design

• 20.05 at 23:59 - deadline of Home-Task 2: Icon Suggestion

• 23.05
  • MMD 07 - References & Writing
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 07 - References & Writing
    Project Consultation (Link)

• 20.06
  • Students' Prototype Presentations - Older Adults

• 27.06
  • Students' Prototype Presentations - Teenagers

• 04.07
  • MMD 08 - Closing Lecture & Feedback
    Presentation (PDF version): Mobile Media Design 08 - Semester Overview

• 31.07 - Deadline for the paper/essay: 23:59

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App Project

Project Consultation

23.05, after the course "MMD 07 - References & Writing ",
the project consultation is around 5 to 10 minutes per student (optional attendance, not mandatory),
in the following order (for those interested, please write your name bellow):

• Juliane
• Leonardo
• Khan
• Adnan
• Laura Graf
• Laura Agudelo
• Mariana Sanchez
• Gabriel Tobar
• Muhammad Raisul Islam

Project File / PechaKucha

The presentation will follow the PechaKucha model: 20 slides-images x 20 seconds each.

The file delivery should follow:

• File Name: MMD_Prototype_FirstnameFamilyname.pdf
• File Format: PDF
• Deadline: one day before the presentation, at 23:59
• The file should be uploaded on the list bellow (preferably), or sent by e-mail with the topic [MMD] Prototype

The PowerPoint model for PechaKucha presentation is available at

• http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/images/Pechakucha-model.zip

Project Presentation

20 June - Adults

• Mariana del Valle Sanchez Artola - Presentation File
• Tatiana Zarta Zabala - Presentation File
• Kazi Fakrul Islam - Presentation File
• Ibni Amin - Presentation File
• Pavel Karpashevich - Presentation File
• Emre Ertem - Presentation File
• Gabriel Tobar - Presentation File
• Rana Al-Kadasi - Presentation File
• Darshan Patel - Presentation File
• Adnan Asim - Presentation File
• Natalia Martinez - Presentation File

27 June - Adults (Previously arranged)

• Fahad Ur Rehman - Presentation File
• Laura Graf - Presentation File
• Moitree Chowdhury - Presentation file

27 June - Teenagers

• Juliane Schwabenbauer - Presentation file
• Yasar Naci Gündüz - Presentation file
• Ibrar Ahmed - Presentation file
• Md. Riazul Islam Khan - Presentation file
• Muhammad Raisul Islam - Presentation file
• Viorel Morari - Presentation file
• Tahira Sohaib - Presentation file
• Laura Agudelo - Presentation file
• Chinh Nguyen Thien - Presentation file
• Jad Boureslan - Presentation File
• Leonardo Costa - Presentation File
• Nana Kesewaa Dankwa - Presentation File
• Nikolay Kolyada - Presentation File
• Shahbaz Syed - Presentation file

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Home Tasks

Home Task 1: Evaluation of Apps for World Heritage Sites in Germany

UNESCO World Heritage Site list: http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/de

List of WHS Apps in Germany
World Heritage Site's Name	App Name	URL(s)	App Evaluation
Aachen Cathedral	Aachener Dom	[iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Speyer Cathedral	Dom Speyer / Speyer Cathedral	[Android official link]          [iOS official link ]	Tahira Sohaib	Ibrar Ahmed
Hanseatic City Lübeck	(Quarterquest) Altstadt von Lübeck	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Gabriel Tobar	(Student name)
Hanseatic City Lübeck	iTour Lübeck English	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Nguyen Thien Chinh	Yasar Naci Gündüz
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	Sanssoussi – The Park and its buildings	[iOS official link ]	Ibni Amin	Emre Ertem
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	Sanssoussi Palace Visitor Guide	[iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Bamberg Old Town	ShowMe: Bamberg	[Android official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg	Quedlinburger FachwerkAPP – Das Welterbe City-Guide	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Völklingen Ironworks	Freizeitführer Saarmoselle	[Android official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Cologne Cathedral	Der Kölner Dom	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Cologne Cathedral	Kölner Dom für Kinder	[Android official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Cologne Cathedral	Der Kölner Dom - Ein Hörführer	[Android official link ]	Viorel Morari	(Student name)
Cologne Cathedral	Cologne Cathedral (internet)	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Adnan Asim	Nikolay Kolyada
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau	The topography of modernism	[Android official link ]	Mariana Sanchez Artola	Darshan Patel
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau	Bauhaus Archive	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Laura Agudelo	Muhammad Raisul Islam
Museum Island in Berlin	Museum Island Visitor Guide	[iOS official link ]	Laura Graf	(Student name)
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar	Wismar Tourist Guide	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Rana Al-Kadasi	(Student name)
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen	UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein App	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Upper Middle Rhine Valley	Rheintour DE	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	Virtuelle Limeswelten mobil	[Android official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	Limes Mittelfranken Mobil	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Shahbaz Ahmed	Fahad Ur Rehman
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	Main Limes Mobile	[iOS official link ]	Kazi Fakrul Islam	(Student name)
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof	Stadtführung Regensburg	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps	Palafittes Guide	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Tatiana Zarta	Md. Riazul Islam Khan
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe	Bergpark	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Leonardo Costa	(Student name)
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey	Corvey	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	(Student name)	(Student name)
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus	Quarterquest Hamburg Speicherstadt, Hafencity und Landungsbrücken	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Juliane Schwabenbauer	(Student name)
UNESCO Germany	Welterbe - Guide to Germany	[Android official link ] [iOS official link ]	Nana Kesewaa Dankwa	Natalia Martínez
UNESCO Germany	World Heritage in Germany	[Android official link ]	Pavel Karpashevich	(Student name)

Home Task 2: Icon Suggestion

Find a 'problematic' Icon/Sign and propose a modification/substitution

• Adnan Asim - Proposal PDF file
• Chinh Nguyen Thien - Proposal PDF file
• Darshan Patel - Proposal PDF file
• Emre Ertem - Proposal PDF file
• Fahad Ur Rehman - Proposal PDF file
• Gabriel Tobar - Proposal PDF file
• Ibni Amin - Proposal PDF file
• Ibrar Ahmed - Proposal PDF file
• Jad Boureslan - Proposal PDF file
• Juliane Schwabenbauer - Proposal PDF file
• Kazi Fakrul Islam - Proposal PDF file
• Laura Agudelo - Proposal PDF file
• Laura Graf - Proposal PDF file
• Leonardo Costa - Proposal PDF file
• Md. Riazul Islam Khan - Proposal PDF file
• Mariana del Valle Sanchez Artola - Proposal PDF file
• Moitree Chowdhury - Proposal PDF file
• Muhammad Raisul Islam - Proposal PDF file
• Nana Kesewaa Dankwa - Proposal PDF file
• Natalia Martinez - Proposal PDF file
• Nikolay Kolyada - Proposal PDF file
• Pavel Karpashevich - Proposal PDF file
• Rana Al-Kadasi - Proposal PDF file
• Shahbaz Syed - Proposal PDF file
• Tahira Sohaib - Proposal PDF file
• Tatiana Zarta Zabala - Proposal PDF file
• Viorel Morari - Proposal PDF file
• Yasar Naci Gündüz - Proposal PDF file

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References

References - Selected Readings

1. Digital / New Media

• Gere, C. (2002). Digital culture. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-388-8
• Hjarvard, S. (2008). The Mediatization of Society - A Theory of the Media as Agents of Social and Cultural Change. Nordicom Review, 2(29), 105-134. Retrieved from http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/270_hjarvard.pdf
• Lunenfeld, P. (2000). The digital dialectic: new essays on new media. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262122138
• Manovich, L. (2001). The language of new media. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press.
• McLuhan, M. (1994). Understanding media: the extensions of man (1st ed.). Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262631598
• Pavlik, J. (2008). Media in the digital age. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231142099 (Read online at: http://www.openisbn.com/preview/0231142099/)

2. Mobile Culure

• Pachler, N., Bachmair, B., Cook, J., & Kress, G. (2009). Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-0584-0
• Poels, K., de Kort, Y., & Ijsselsteijn, W. (2007). “It is always a lot of fun!”: exploring dimensions of digital game experience using focus group methodology. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play_: November 14-17, 2007, Toronto, Canada (pp. 83-89). New York N.Y.: ACM. Retrieved from http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1328202.1328218
• Ronchi, A. M. (2009). eCulture?: cultural content in the digital age. Dordrecht; London: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-75273-8
• Samkange-Zeeb, F., & Blettner, M. (2008). Emerging aspects of mobile phone use. Emerging Health Threats Journal, 2. doi:10.3134/ehtj.09.005. Retrieved from http://www.eht-journal.net/index.php/ehtj/article/view/7082/7947
• Straubhaar, J., LaRose, R., & Davenport, L. (2011). Media now: understanding media, culture, and technology (7th ed.). Boston MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4390-8257-7

3. Icon Design

• Abdullah, R., & Hübner, R. (Eds.). (2005). Piktogramme und Icons: Pflicht oder Kür? (1. Aufl). Mainz: Schmidt.
• Everaert-Desmedt, N. (n.d.). Charles Sanders Peirce: Semiotics / Signo - Applied Semiotics Theories. Retrieved from http://www.signosemio.com/peirce/semiotics.asp
• Frutiger, A., & Bluhm, A. A. (1989). Signs and symbols: their design and meaning. London: Studio Editions.
• Haldemann, J. (2014, November 11). A brief history of pictograms and ideograms - Saffron Interactive. Retrieved from http://saffroninteractive.com/a-brief-history-of-pictograms-and-ideograms/
• Hicks, J. (2011). The icon handbook. Penarth: Five Simple Steps.
• Lanir, L. (n.d.). Peirce’s Symbolic Iconic and Indexical Signs: Semiotics. Retrieved from http://www.decodedscience.org/charles-sanders-peirce-symbolic-iconic-and-indexical-signs/23013
• Margolin, V., & Buchanan, R. (Eds.). (1995). The idea of design. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

4. Interface Design Guidelines for mobile platforms

• iOS - Apple: iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Designing for iOS
  https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/
• Android - Google: Design | Android Developers
  http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
• Windows Phone: Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps - Windows app development
  https://dev.windows.com/en-us/design

5. Urban Spaces

• Brighenti, A. M. (2010). New Media and the Prolongations of Urban Environments. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 16(4), 471-487. doi:10.1177/1354856510375528. Retrieved from http://con.sagepub.com/content/16/4/471
• Champion, E. (2011). Playing with the past. Springer-Verlag New York Inc. ISBN 978-1-84996-500-2
• Eckardt, F., & Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. (2008). Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity. Berlin: Frank & Timme. ISBN 9783865961426 (Read online at http://openisbn.com/preview/3865961428/)
• Hannerz, U. (1980). Exploring the city: inquiries toward an urban anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-2310-8376-8
• McQuire, S. (2008). The media city: media, architecture and urban space. Los Angeles Calif.: Sage. ISBN 9781412907934

6. Methodology

• Neuendorf, K. A. (2002). The content analysis guidebook. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-1977-3
• Shuttleworth, M., & Blakstad, O. (2010). How to write a research paper: an introduction to academic writing. Lexington KY: Oskar Blakstad and Experiment-Resources.com. Retrieved from http://www.experiment-resources.com/how-to-write-a-researchpaper.html
• Simon, J. L. (2003). The art of empirical investigation. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0765805308 (Read online at http://openisbn.com/preview/0765805308/)