Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Sari Kujala

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Exercises and exam
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

The course gives basic information of psychology suitable for all students of technology. The goal of the course is to increase the knowledge of human behaviour and how to apply psychology in human-centered design of technology. Main topics: human development, personality, memory and learning, cognition and emotion, communication, creativity, group-behaviour, organizational psychology, designing for special groups, psychology of consumption and aesthetics.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	To learn the foundations of psychology for human-centered design purposes.
2.	To understand human characteristics and behaviour.
3.	To improve interaction skills and capability to meet different kinds of people.

Evaluation criteria for the course

See http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/IHTE-7100/

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
-					See http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/IHTE-7100/		Suomi

Correspondence of content

Last modified	29.06.2009
Modifier	Sari Kujala