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The Architectural Imagination
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Overview
This course offers understanding of human interaction with the digital media, which is a fast-growing and multi-disciplinary field of Industrial Design. Interaction with Technology is a part of our everyday lifestyle. How fluid this human-computer interaction is, enhances the user´s experience and efficiency. Students will learn the methodology for this highly iterative process to create more meaningful and usable products. The concept of smart, wearable, extended reality and multimodal interfaces will also be explored.
Syllabus 4
- Week 1
- Introduction to Interaction Design
- Components of Interaction Design
- Interaction Design Process
- Understanding User
- Conceptual Design (Part 01)
- Week 2
- Conceptual Design (Part 02)
- Role of Cognition
- Role of Social Interaction
- Designing for Emotional Interaction
- Interactive Interfaces
- Week 3
- Data Gathering
- Data Analysis
- Discovering Requirements
- User Personas and Scenarios
- Design and Prototyping (Part 01)
- Week 4
- Design and Prototyping (Part 02)
- Visual Interface Design
- Elements of User Interface
- Affordances and UI Transformations
- Component-Based Design Systems
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- Taught by IIT and IISc professors, and it follows the Indian university syllabus closely.
- All videos and assignments are free on NPTEL and SWAYAM.
- The certificate is recognised by many Indian universities for credit transfer and by GATE aspirants.
- Great for GATE and semester exam preparation.
- From Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, a well-regarded name.
- Completely free.
- Self-paced: start any time.
- A clear syllabus (4 parts) you can see before you start.
Disadvantages
- The certificate needs a proctored exam at a centre, which has a fee.
- Recorded classroom lectures: thorough, but slower than made-for-online courses.
- New runs start on fixed dates (January and July).
- Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.
Free to learn
- Free: Every video and assignment is free on NPTEL and SWAYAM. Enrol when the next run opens.
- Certificate: Optional. It needs a proctored exam at a centre, which has a fee.
Taught by
- Prof. Sonal AtreyaIIT Roorkee
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (90/100).
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