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Course Catalog 2013-2014

TIE-40106 Psychology of Pervasive Computing, 5 cr Psychology of Pervasive Computing TIE-40106 2013-01

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Lecture times and places
Lectures Excercises Assignment	14 h/per  10 h/per	+4 h/per +2 h/per  30 h/per				Tuesday 12 - 14, S3

Description:

The course deals with psychology of human behavior and its design implications in pervasive computing. Areas covered are cognition, attention, emotion, personality, consumption, group behavior, communication and values. Pervasive computing as an application area is introduced and design implications are elaborated. Course consists of lectures, exercises (basic UX research) and assignments (design exercises on applying psychology to pervasive computing).

Person responsible:

Timo Saari

Assessment scale:

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