Projektmodul
Lecturer(s): Michael Markert
Credits: 18 ECTS, 12 SWS
Date: Thursday mornings, 9:15 to 12:30
accompanying consultations: Tuesdays 13:30 to 16:45
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, Room to be announced
First meeting: 22. October 2015 (subject to change)
Important
Michael Markert will stand in for Prof. Dr. Jens Geelhaar who will be absent this semester.
Please excuse that there might be changes regarding the official study schedule and bear with us until we figure out the details of this semester's project.
Description
Advanced Interfaces is about designing interfaces (screen-based and/or tangible) for tomorrow. Good interfaces should help users to achieve what they want to do; not only in the shortest possible time, but also with joyfulness and style. Most of the time, it's not about where to place a button, but rather asking if that button is necessary at all. We will look at various strategies like User-Centered Design, Service Design and Cybernetic Feedback Loops (we aren't only controlling the devices, but the devices are influencing us and our behavior).
This semester, we are proud to feature various practice based projects with exciting interface design challenges: one prominent opportunity will be a collaboration with an international company for high-end domestic appliances. You will have the chance propose your interface designs and get a glimpse of real world implementations. Two other projects will be announced soon.
Creative and artistic methods will be used for the conception and development of own works and applications but also for work on the practical projects. It is also possible to suggest own practice based, experimental or media-art projects or projects in preparation for your Master's Thesis, as long as the focus is on interfaces.
Topics
- to be announced
Registration procedure
Please send your application by email with the Subject MasterprojectWS15 to: michael.markert (at) uni-weimar.de
- Name, Surname
- program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
- matriculation number (Matrikelnummer)
- Angabe der geltenden Prüfungsordnung
- Valid email address @uni-weimar.de (no other mailing addresses will be accepted) Why?
Please note that there is no guarantee to join this course if there are already more than 25 registrations.
Evaluation
Active participation, presentation, artistic examination, documentation, edits in the wiki.
Eligible participants
Master students enrolled in the Faculties of Media, Gestaltung and in the MediaArchitecture program
Syllabus
Termine des Semesters
- 22.10.15 First Meeting
- 29.10.15
- 05.11.15
- 12.11.15
- 19.11.15
- 26.11.15
- 03.12.15
- 10.12.15
- 17.12.15
- 07.01.16 to be announced
- 14.01.16
- 21.01.16
- 28.01.16
- 04.02.16
Literature
- Link zum Semesterapparat
- Nachname, Vorname: Titel des Buches ISBN 978-0822334972
Links
- tba