Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

and design a prototype in a group, for a given setting with specied users before they
present their results.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
• Knowledge about design and development of architectures, technologies, and systems
as alternatives to graphical user interfaces
• Knowledge about use contexts and case studies of such alternatives
Skills: Design and prototyping of a system based on one of the following technologies:
• Tangible user interfaces and design of tangible objects
• Mobile platforms
• Ubiquitous computing
• Embedded sensors and displays
• Large multitouch systems
• Gestural interfaces
Competences:
• Innovation in design and prototyping of alternative interaction interfaces
• Team work
Syllabus:
• Alternatives to graphical user interfaces (GUI): architectures, technologies, systems,
use contexts, case studies: Tangible user interfaces and design of tangible
objects; mobile platforms; ubiquitous computing; embedded sensors and displays;
large multitouch systems; gestural interfaces
• Design and prototyping of a system based on one of the technologies listed above
Expected Prerequisites: Knowhow and skills about design methodologies for design and
prototyping as well as programming skills.
Teaching and Learning Methods and Adequate Assessment of Performance: The module
is organized along lectures, design and presentation of a prototype in a group.
Courses of Module:
6.0/4.0 VU Beyond the Desktop
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