Co-design and User-centred Systems Development
15.0 ECTS creditsThe course covers the following:
- Models for systems development, especially different forms of user-centred systems development and digital services development
- Similarities and differences between different concepts, especially prototyping, participatory systems development, co-design, user-oriented and user-centred systems development, interaction design, user experience (UX), usability and user-friendly, and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as infrastructuring
- Prototyping and its role in systems development and co-design
- The role of usability testing in systems development and co-design
- Experiments for design development and for evaluation
The course includes practical exercises in a laboratory environment for both types of experiment, and students are expected to justify, plan, prepare, and conduct experiments. There is a special emphasis on learning how to relate experiments to theories of user-centred systems development and submitting design proposals (requirement specifications) based on the results of experiments.
Instruction is in the form of lectures, seminars, and laboratory work.
- Models for systems development, especially different forms of user-centred systems development and digital services development
- Similarities and differences between different concepts, especially prototyping, participatory systems development, co-design, user-oriented and user-centred systems development, interaction design, user experience (UX), usability and user-friendly, and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as infrastructuring
- Prototyping and its role in systems development and co-design
- The role of usability testing in systems development and co-design
- Experiments for design development and for evaluation
The course includes practical exercises in a laboratory environment for both types of experiment, and students are expected to justify, plan, prepare, and conduct experiments. There is a special emphasis on learning how to relate experiments to theories of user-centred systems development and submitting design proposals (requirement specifications) based on the results of experiments.
Instruction is in the form of lectures, seminars, and laboratory work.
Progressive specialisation:
A1N (has only first鈥恈ycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Master's level
Admission requirements
A Bachelor degree, or a Bachelor thesis of at least 15 ECTS credits in one of the subjects Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Working Life Science, or Media and Communication Studies, plus upper secondary level English 6, or equivalent
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Master Programme in Information Systems (studied during year 1)
More information
- Start Spring 2025
- Mode of study Campus
- Language English
- Course code ISAD25
- Application code KAU-45575
- Study pace 100% (Day)
- Study period week 4鈥13
- Schedule
- Introductory Information
- Reading list