STKD6410 Universal Design of New and Emerging Interfaces II Emneplan

Til 1: Emneansvarlig etter innstilling fra praksislærer

Til 2: Alle besvarelser vurderes av én sensor.

Ekstern sensor benyttes regelmessig, og minimum ved hver tredje gjennomføring av emnet. Ved uttrekk av besvarelser til ekstern sensur skal uttrekket omfatte minimum 10% av besvarelsene, men uansett ikke færre enn 5 besvarelser. Ved uttrekk skal ekstern sensors vurdering komme alle studentene til gode.

Praksislærer må innstille på at praksisstudiet er bestått før den individuelle oppgaven vurderes.

It is recommended to have completed one full year of university studies (60 ECTS) before the program starts, and that a minimum of 30 ECTS of your total 60 ETCS is within computer science.

One half year of university studies (30 ECTS), in addition to the international summer school’s general requirements. The requirement has to be met by application deadline.

After completing this course the student should have the following learning outcome:

Knowledge

On successful completion of this course the student has knowledge of:

• Norwegian and international legislation regarding the inclusion of all groups of users in society
• various physical and cognitive disabilities and design universally accessible solutions for ICT in cooperation with users
• techniques for ensuring access to ICT for everyone

Skills

On successful completion of this course the student has:

• demonstrated ability to identify barriers to usability
• shown proficiency at evaluating the universal design of existing processes and technology
• demonstrated ability to develop universally designed systems
• shown proficiency at applying universal design principles in practice
• experienced developing state-of-the-art universally designed ICT solutions
• the ability to critique design processes from a universal design perspective

General Competence On successful completion of this course the student can apply:

• universal design principles in testing and evaluating ICT
• universal design policies in practice
• universal design practices to ensure access to ICT for everyone

The blended learning variant involves four weeks attendance-based teaching, in addition to 4 weeks independent study online.

The online learning variant may also be taken as a fully independent study online course.

None.

Examination system:

1. Oral examination. An oral group presentation which counts for 50% of the final grade.
2. Individual term paper 4,000 to 8,000 words, which counts for 50% of the final grade.

Each group may consist of 2-5 candidates.

The oral presentation cannot be appealed.

All support materials are allowed for both the oral presentation and for the individual term paper.

Pass/fail.

Two internal examiners will be used. External examiner is used regularly.

The course has 5 ECTS of overlapping content towards STKD6400 Universal Design of New and Emerging Interfaces I.