MBIB4600 Interactive Information Retrieval Emneplan

This course on interactive information retrieval (IIR) focuses on users' use and interaction with information systems and the users' satisfaction with retrieved information. The course deals with central concepts and models as well as theoretical and methodical aspects of context-based evaluation of IIR. Emphasis is placed on the relations between users, information needs, information situations, relevance of retrieved information, and information seeking behaviour. In particular, the course focuses on methods and study designs (methodology) for how to study users' system interaction, their satisfaction with retrieved information, and information seeking behaviour.

In summary, the course covers:

• Conceptions of information need and relevance, as well as models of information searching, information seeking, and information behaviour.
• (I)IR evaluation approaches.
• Data collection methods and study design for (I)IR evaluation and user studies.

The teaching language is in English when there are foreign exchange students present.

Grade scale A-F.

None.

The student should have the following learning outcomes upon successful completion of the course:

Knowledge

The student has

• advanced knowledge and insight about different IR evaluation approaches
• advanced knowledge about central concepts, models, and methods for IIR evaluation and user studies
• advanced knowledge about how to conduct IIR evaluation and user studies

Skills

The student can

• reflect on central models and methods for IIR evaluation and user studies
• assess relevant methods, and combinations of these, for IIR evaluation and user studies
• identify and compare key evaluation concepts for IIR evaluation and user studies
• use advanced knowledge on central concepts, models, and methods to conduct IIR evaluation and user studies

General competence

The student is able to

• disseminate and give an account of different IR evaluation approaches
• analytically assess relevant methods, and combinations of these, for IIR evaluation and user studies
• independently design, plan, and conduct different types of IIR evaluations and user studies

In this course, students will become familiar with and skilled in innovation with form and experimentation with material properties.

Admission to the programme and approved workshop training (coursework requirement in BAPD1020).

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student is familiar with

• methods of innovative ideation and idea processing
• experimental methods of exploring materials
• surface and processing techniques in various material areas

Skills

The student has basic skills in

• experimenting with materials and ideas related to 3D forms
• exploring different material surface properties
• experimental work with unpredictable results and possibilities
• working systematically with documenting experiments

Competence

The student

• is familiar with relevant ethical issues in the discipline and profession and is aware of professional attitudes in the design field
• is capable of referring to specialist literature
• is capable of exchanging points of view and experience with others with backgrounds in the field and in this way contribute to developing good practice
• is capable of reflecting on his/her own development in the learning process and adjusting it
• is capable of working with results that can be verified

Workshops, lectures, demonstrations, workshop practice and individual and group assignments.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Research question: One A4 page containing text and inspirational images.
• Work plan: Activity and time schedule.
• Patterns and colour: Physical or digital submission of a pattern report produced by the student containing at least three colour options based on Itten’s colour contrasts.
• Written reflection on the student’s own learning process and planning. Up to two A4 pages.

Portfolio assessment subject to the following requirements:

• Part 1. Contribution to the class’s joint materials library:
  • Physical documentation
  • Written and visual documentation (4-8 A4 pages)
• Part 2:
  • Physical object, idea sketches, models and material testing.
  • Presentation portfolio in A3 format containing a comprehensive and thorough visual process description (sketch material, text and images). Minimum of 15 pages.
• Part 3. Workshop manual
  • Supplementary submissions in the form of written and, if applicable, illustrated notes on all pages under the titles Mine notater (‘My notes’) in the workbook Verkstedhåndbok (‘Workshop manual’). This means that the workbook is re-introduced in this course and supplemented in relation to the course BAPD1010.

All parts of the portfolio must be passed (grade E or better) in order to pass the exam in the course.

The exam result can be appealed.

All.