Course Overview

What should we do to evaluate design? This class will talk about how to plan an experiment to evaluate design works, artifacts and products, how to obtain valid data from experiment, what is psychological and physiological evidence, and what does the result imply in desgin process.

Learning Achievement

To understand how to evaluate design using subjective evaluation and objective evaluation. To understand the relationship between target, purpose, method in design evaluation.

Competence

(Generic Competence) Critical thinking, creativity, data literacy, internationality
(Specific Competence) Creative expresiveness, problem solving, logical thinking, etc.

Course prerequisites

No requirements. Although students are recommended but not mandatory to take the class 「Design analysis: data science and statistical skills」as well.

Grading Philosophy

Will be based on overall performance in the report submitted by the students.

Course schedule

What is a "good" design
Usability and emotional design
Aesthetics and perception
Subjective evaluation
Objective evaluation
Evaluation evidence and examples
Evaluation evidence and examples
Experiment planning
The basics of analyzing data from experiment
Basics and application of data analysis
The above orders and procedures are subject to change based on the progress of the class.

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Bao Suomiya

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university