Materials and Readings

The course comes in two parts. The reading intensive part of the course will be Weeks 1-5, the making intensive part will be Weeks 6-11.

Planning for Term CDI1 – Overview Table

Week 1: Design Thinking Applied to Health

S1.1: Design, User Experience, Usability

S1.2: Linking to Design Thinking

Key readings:

Ritter / Baxter / Churchill, Chapters 1 + 2

Neff / Nafus, Chapter 1

Week 2: Design and Data

S2.1: Designing From, With, By Data

S2.2: The Quantified Self

Key readings:

Neff / Nafus, Chapter 2

Additional readings

Week 3: Engaging with Users Across Cultures

S3.1: Usability in Context

S3.2: Intercultural Usability

Key readings:

Additional Reading:

  • Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Clemmensen, T., & Kurosu, M. (2013). Reframing HCI Through Local and Indigenous Perspectives. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 29(4), 201–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2013.765759
  • Marcus, A., & Baradit, S. (2015). Chinese User-Experience Design: An Initial Analysis. In Proceedings, Part II, of the 4th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: Users and Interactions – Volume 9187(pp. 107–117). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20898-5_11
  • Criteria for the Stanley Caplan User-Centered Product Design  Award

Key resource:

Week 4: Qualitative Research

S4.1: Qualitative Research: Introduction

S4.2: Qualitative Research Analysis

Key readings:

Neff / Nafus, Chapter 4 + 5

Key Resources:

 

Week 5: Ethnography and Friends

S5.1: Guest Lecture (TBD)

S5.2: Watching the English (Top Hat)

Week 6: Accessibility and Inclusion

S6.1/2: Dimensions of Inclusion and Accessible Making

Key readings:

Ritter / Baxter / Churchill, Chapter 10 + 14

Week 7: Products and Services

S7.1/2: Service Design, Prototyping and Testing; Literature searching 

Key readings:

Week 8: Professional Issues

S8.1: Ethics

S8.2: Reflective Practice

Key readings:

Ethics procedure of Linguistics and English Language 

Zimmer, M. (2010). “But the data is already public”: on the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and information technology, 12(4), 313-325.

Rivers CM and Lewis BL. Ethical research standards in a world of big data [version 2; referees: 3 approved with reservations]. F1000Research 2014, 3:38
(https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-38.v2)

Keeping a Research Diary: One Page overview (.doc Format)

Reflective Practice Course

Reflective Practice in Research – The role of the Research Diary

Week 9: Interdisciplinary Foundations

S9.1: Cognition, Emotion, Personality

S9.2: Guest Lecture: Sociolinguistics

Week 10: Go Make Stuff!

Week 11: Presentations

S11.1: Presentations 3-5pm