User-centred Design and Ergonomics (5 ECTS)
Code: KX00EF38-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.11.2021 - 31.01.2022
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 05.01.2022 - 30.04.2022
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 ECTS
- Virtual portion
- 2 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus and online
- Unit
- (2019-2024) School of Media, Design and Conservation
- Campus
- Hämeentie 135 D
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Design
- Teachers
- kulu virtuaali::muotoilu
- Teacher in charge
- Merja Kosonen
- Groups
-
KXE20S1TMIndustrial Design
- Course
- KX00EF38
Objective
The student
• understands the possibilities of user-oriented product development, how to utilise the information within the industry, perspectives for the user experience in design as well as interface design and user testing methods
• learns about the basic concepts, methods, modelling and testing of ergonomic design as well as physical and cognitive ergonomics.
Content
• Basic concepts and methods for usability and user-oriented design
• User-oriented design processes in industrial design
• Basics and terminology of ergonomics and ergonomic design
• Human anatomy and mechanism of body function
• Research in ergonomics methodology and design methodology
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
The student
• knows the principles of ergonomic design
• can describe what modelling, testing and physical and cognitive ergonomics are
• can describe how user information is exploited within industries
• is able to describe user experience design, user interface design and user testing methods.
Assessment criteria, good (3)
The student
• knows well the principles of ergonomic design
• can describe well what modelling, testing and physical and cognitive ergonomics are
• can describe how user information is exploited within industries
• is able to describe well user experience design, user interface design and user testing methods.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
The student
• knows excellently the principles of ergonomic design
• can describe very well what modelling, testing and physical and cognitive ergonomics are
• can describe how user information is exploited within industries
• is able to describe very well user experience design, user interface design and user testing methods.
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
The student
• knows the principles of ergonomic design
• can describe what modelling, testing and physical and cognitive ergonomics are
• can describe how user information is exploited within industries
• is able to describe user experience design, user interface design and user testing methods.