Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Hannu Soronen, Sari Kujala

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Wednesday 14 - 16, Forte -room in IHTE

Requirements

Exercises and exam
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

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

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	See http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/IHTE-7100/ The course is an English version of the IHTE-7100 course and based on Moodle tasks and writing a learning portfolio from reading materials.	Lectures Excercises Practical works Study journal, portfolio and other literary work	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %