The Master's Degreee Programme in HTI will arrange on Tue 22 August 2017 an information session for the new students.

The session is compulsory for the new degree students in the Master programme in HTI.

For Finnish B.Sc. Students:

HTI-maisteriopintojen esittely torstaina 5.9. klo 15, ks.

https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opetusohjelma/marjapuuro.htm?id=35540

Enrol for the course in advance in Moodle. Link will be available on course page from 1.9.-

The course consists of a pre-assignment and 3x2 hour workshops + online assignments related to each workshop.

Workshops: 1st study period,  weeks 37-39

• Group 1. Tue at 14-16 (11.9., 18.9. and 25.9.)
• Group 2. Wed  at 10-12 (12.9., 19.9. and 26.9.)
• Group 3. Wed  at 16-18 (12.9., 19.9. and 26.9.)
• Group 4. Thu at 10-12 (13.9., 20.9. and 27.9.)
• Group 5. Fri at 12-14 (14.9., 21.9. and 28.9.)
• Group 6. Thu at 16-18 if needed (13.9.,20.9. and 27.9.)

The groups meet 3 times in computer classroom Akseli (3021), 3rd floor of Linna building.

This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be two periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2017-2018, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2018.

This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

Suomenkielisten kandiopiskelijoiden info ja HOPS-tilaisuus to 7.9. klo 15-16

Osallistujia pyydetään täyttämään etukäteen HOPS excel-ja toimittamaan se viimeistään maanantaina 4.9. Heli Rikalalle osoitteeseen cs-studies@uta.fi.

HTI-ohjelman yhteisiin opintoihin kuuluu jakso HTIY004 Personal Study Planning 1 ECTS, esittelyyn osallistuminen on osa jakson suoritusta.

This course is implemented as a book exam in the electronic exam service.

This exam must be taken before participating the Experimental Research in Interactive Technology course. Therefore, it is a good idea to take the exam early on.

The questions in the exam will look a lot like the chapter titles or subtitles within chapters in the book (they may even be exactly the same). The idea is that in the answer you should write a brief essay that describes the main issues in the topic indicated. Remember to include examples in your answers to show how you would apply the concepts in a particular situation. The idea of the exam is to test how completely you have learned the material in the book. Other material that is not mentioned in the book may earn points, but not with the same efficiency as the material in the book. If you are not familiar with book exams, you may find the instructions for preparing for book exams helpful (Finnish, English).

The exam is set up with a number of questions in the electronic exam service. The system will randomly display five questions to each student taking the exam. Only four of the questions may be answered. If there are five answers, I will disregard the BEST answer in grading. The idea is to give some choice in which questions to answer (i.e. you do not have to know the whole book perfectly to get a good grade). However, you must choose which questions you want to answer. Fishing expeditions with five answers will be punished as explained above.

For questions, contact course supervisor Deepa Vasara at deepa.vasara@staff.uta.fi.

Please note: in practice, this seminar is running continuously, and you can join the course also other times than September and January. Also, it is expected that you will participate in the seminar until you have finished your thesis.

Participation in classroom work and seminar and intermediate reports on the progress of the thesis work.

Who can participate

If you are planning to start your thesis or already working with it and you aim to finish the thesis in approximately one year, this seminar is for you.

You do not need to have a supervisor when the seminar begins. The first thing in the seminar will be topic selection and supervisor assignment.

The seminar has montly meetings, each lasting two and half hours. In each meeting, every student makes a presentation of his/her work and progress. Templates for each meeting will be given in the moodle. In addition, all pariticpants need to return a draft version of their thesis before each meeting.

There will be four (autumn) + five or six (spring) meetings. In order to get credits, students need to return their thesis and participate in all meetings (absence can be compensated with a separate agreement beforehand). There is also a remote connection possibility.

This is a Moodle course, all communication takes place in the course Moodle.

Need inspiraton for thesis subject?

Have you already started planning your thesis? Do you need inspiration and ideas to come up with a reasonable thesis subject?

You are warmly welcome to find out about the HTI research and to get thesis subject tips from the professors and teachers.

Please note that period 1 starts one week earlier in TUT.

This course cannot be taken by students who have done the courses TIEP2 Introduction to Interactive Technology and TIEA1 Introduction to User Interfaces.

By email to the teacher.

The course is intended for UTA and TUT students in the Master's Programme in Human-Technology Interaction and for other students interested in user-centered design and evaluation methods.

To enroll the course, a Demola project application is required

Exam available Electronically

Email the examiner, and then register for the exam.

The book exam for "There is no app for that" is available (Electronically). Please email Sumita Sharma before scheduling the exam for instrustions and prep guidance.

General principles

For information on the mode of operation in the book, see the Exam instructions below.

The books that can be studied for this module can change from year to year. Each book has a separate examination. The credit points for the book exam can be included in the master's degree.

The Books That Can Be Taken for the Exam are available in the University Library and sometimes through other means as indicated below.

General advice is how to prepare for the exam is available in Finnish and in English.

Books

Robinson, S., Marsden, G. and Jones, M. There is no app for that. Mobile User Experience for Morgan Kaufmann, 2014, 443 pp.

• Gives 5 credit points. Grade is Pass / Fail.
• Examiner: Sumita Sharma
• Available online (requires basic user account for access) and two copies are coming soon at the university library.
• Exam: the exam is in English and is available electronically. Please confirm your Eligibility with the examnier before scheduling the exam.

Exam instructions

The mode of operation in the book exam is as follows:

1. The student studies a book.
2. The student emails the examiner, and then registers for the exam Electronically.
3. The student takes the exam, answering the questions Received in the exam. The exam is

Kurssi järjestetään ensimmäistä kertaa lukuvuonna 2017-2018 yhteistyössä vakuutuksen ja riskienhallinnan opintosuunnan, ihmisen ja teknologian vuorovaikutuksen maisteriohjelman sekä IBM:n kanssa.

Ks. tarkempi kuvaus

Ks. JOUJOVTS Työpaja I: Kansa

Ilmoittaudu sähköpostitse Markku Turuselle markku.turunen@uta.fi viimeistään 13.9.

Työpajaan otetaan max. 20 opiskelijaa

This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be two periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

The course focuses on the basic and general features of scientific research, methodology, and argumentation, as applicable to any field of study. Some central themes in the philosophy of science will also be discussed, in an introductory manner.

The course is intended to all new international UTA Master’s degree students, but it will serve also international Doctoral students. Other degree and exchange students may join if there are free places.

Contact person: Coordinator of international education, Anna Wansén-Kaseva

Students MUST have done TIEVS81/HTIS81 Usability Evaluation Methods or Fundamentals of HTI before attending this course.

This course presents a timely snapshot on ICT4D, HCI4D, MIL4C and their applications in higher education, digitalization of learning and cross-cultural collaboration. It is suitable for master's and PhD students in Human-Technology Interaction, Media Education and other relevant fields.

Guest speakers include

• Prof. Manisha Pathak-Shelat from MICA, Ahmedabad, India,
• Prof. Keyur Sorathia from IIT-Guwahati, Assam, India and
• Head of Design and UX Saurabh Srivastava from Conduent Labs, Bengaluru, India.

By 13th of December (12:00)

The course focuses on the basic and general features of scientific research, methodology, and argumentation, as applicable to any field of study. Some central themes in the philosophy of science will also be discussed, in an introductory manner.

The course is intended to all new international UTA Master’s degree students, but it will serve also international Doctoral students. Other degree and exchange students may join if there are free places.

Contact person: Coordinator of international education, Anna Wansén-Kaseva

Practical implementation:
The course covers different types of human-technology interaction including, e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality, tangible interaction, information visualization, public displays and wearable computing. For each type, an overview of past and current work from scientific literature is discussed and the concept of interaction technique works as the focal point throughout.

The course is graded pass/fail and passing the course requires the completion of weekly design and analysis exercises, giving a presentation on a given research paper, writing a blog post and participating in discussions during the meetings and on-line. Full remote participation is possible with per participant agreement. Meetings will be available on-line. Passing this part of the course will result in 5cu marking which can be expanded to 10cu by completing a project work where a prototype system is developed and evaluated. The project can be done during period IV, or with a special agreement, at later time.

Moodle is used during the course for communication and returning the exercises.

Teaching in period III, optional course work in period IV.

Course information in Moodle.

Exam, assignments, and a paper or documented project work.

This course can be taken during B.Sc or M.Sc. studies.

You can not take HTIS85 Methods in Human-Centered Design if you have done:

• TIEVA38 Graphical User Interface Design Project, 
• TIEVA30 Käytettävyystyön menetelmät - Graafisen käyttöliittymän suunnittelun työkurssi (8 op) or
• TIEVS69 Human-Centered Design Project (TUT/TIE-41406).

Preceding studies

Some basic course in HCI (compulsory), e.g.

• Principles of Usability, User Experience and User Interfaces, or User Experience: Design and Evaluation;
• User Interface Design or corresponding course;
• Usability Evaluation Methods (compulsory, can be taken during same academic year).

Contents

The most common human-centered design (HCD) methods are learned both in theory and practice. The methods are introduced and discussed in the weekly meetings and learned in practice during the course work in small design projects.

The student will learn the most common HCD methods and techniques, including techniques for gathering, modeling and analyzing user research data, methods for specifying and designing products and services, and principles of interaction and interface design, and prototyping. These include, among others, observation, interviewing, consolidating models for interaction, artifacts, physical and cultural models, affinity diagrams, personas, scenarios, sketching, storyboarding, wireframes, design patterns, interactive UI mock-ups etc.

Please note: in practice, this seminar is running continuously, and you can join the course also other times than September and January. Also, it is expected that you will participate in the seminar until you have finished your thesis.

Participation in classroom work and seminar and intermediate reports on the progress of the thesis work. Seminar continues on Fall term.

Who can participate

If you are planning to start your thesis or already working with it and you aim to finish the thesis in approximately one year, this seminar is for you.

You do not need to have a supervisor when the seminar begins. The first thing in the seminar will be topic selection and supervisor assignment.

The seminar has montly meetings, each lasting two and half hours. In each meeting, every student makes a presentation of his/her work and progress. Templates for each meeting will be given in the moodle. In addition, all pariticpants need to return a draft version of their thesis before each meeting.

There will be four (autumn) + five or six (spring) meetings. In order to get credits, students need to return their thesis and participate in all meetings (absence can be compensated with a separate agreement beforehand). There is also a remote connection possibility.

This is a Moodle course, all communication takes place in the course Moodle.

This course cannot be taken by students who have done the courses TIEP2 Introduction to Interactive Technology and TIEA1 Introduction to User Interfaces.

Time for enrolling: Non-stop.

See detailed instructions on Innovation project coursepage.
Apply for Projects during 15.12.-21.12.2017 through Demola page

Haluatko mukaan oppimaan digitaalista tiedonvälitystä, selittävää journalismia ja internetiä? Keväällä siihen on mahdollisuus!

Ks. Valinnainen jakso: Työpaja II: Pääseekö täällä lääkäriin?

Työpajaan haetaan motivaatiokirjeellä.

TUT offers some suitable courses for optional studies for example

• TIE-12206 Post-graduate Seminar on Pervasive Computing 2017-06 with a theme "Visualizing software development", 3 cr
• TIE-12206 Post-graduate Seminar on Pervasive Computing  2017-08 with a theme "User Experience in Robotics", 3 cr

Opetus kevätlukukaudella 2018
Maanantaisin 15.1. alkaen, klo 14–17, Päätalo E350

Opetus jakautuu kahteen osaan: kolmannen periodin kestävään luento-osuuteen ja neljännellä periodilla yksilöllisesti, pareittain tai pienryhmässä toteutettavaan tutkimusharjoitukseen.

3. periodi: Kurssin luento-osuuden punaisena lankana toimii havainto urbaanin ympäristön tilallisesta moninaistumisesta ja kerrostumisesta teknologian digitalisoitumisen ja verkottumisen sekä mobiilien älylaitteiden yleistymisen myötä. Samalla kehollisesti koettava fyysinen kaupunki tarjoaa tarkasteluille tärkeän kiinnekohdan. Keskeinen kysymys kurssilla koskee niitä rakenteellisia tekijöitä ja voimia, jotka muotoilevat näkyvän, kuuluvan ja tuntuvan kaupunkitilan luonnetta sekä ihmisaistien että julkisesti saatavilla olevan tiedon ulottumattomissa – mukaan lukien historialliset kehityskulut, hallinnan ja suunnittelun käytännöt sekä urbaanien toimintojen ja kaupunkielämän teknologisen ja taloudellisen ohjautumisen.

Huomion kiinnittäjänä ja viitepisteenä toimii Tampereen keskustan pääsuoni, jota luennoilla lähestytään / jota viitepisteenä käyttäen ponnistetaan liikkeelle eri tarkastelusuunnista ja kohdennuksin seuraavan otsikon alla:Näkyvä/näkymätön Hämeenkatu. Kurssin vierailijat valottavat muun muassa kaupungin liikenteen ohjausjärjestelmien digitalisoitumista, kaupunkitilan kalustamista mainos- ja mediaelementeillä sekä kadun tallaajille tuntemattomia hallinnan, suunnittelun ja vallankäytön taustoja ja dynamiikkoja.

4. periodi: Tutkimusharjoitus ohjeistetaan 3. periodin lopussa tai 4. periodin alussa.

NettiOpsussa.

Yhteistyöseminaari Futuricen kanssa.

• Ennakkolukemisto ja esseet helmi-maaliskuussa
• Seminaari Workshopit (5 iltapäivää) keskiviikkoisin

Mietityttääkö gradun aloitus? Etsitkö aihetta gradullesi?

Jos olet aloittamassa gradua kesällä tai tulevana syksynä, tilaisuus on sinua varten!

Keskiviikkona 9.5. klo 16.00 Olohuoneessa Pinni B1029-30 pidetään tutkinto-ohjelman info- ja keskustelutilaisuus pro gradu -tutkielmaa aloittaville opiskelijoille

Ohjelmassa mm. 

- infoa pro gradun aloituksesta ja aiheen/ohjaajan löytämisestä

- mahdollisia ohjaajia ja aihelaueita

- keskustelua maisteriohjelmakohtaisissa ryhmissä

Tilaisuuteen on vapaaehtoinen ilmoittautuminen. Kysymyksiä voi lähettää ennakkoon opintokoordinaattorille (Heli Rikala, cs-studies@uta.fi)

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Need inspiraton for thesis subject?

Have you already started planning your thesis? Do you need inspiration and ideas to come up with a reasonable thesis subject?

You are warmly welcome to meet us and learn about the M.Sc. Thesis process and to get thesis subject tips from the professors and teachers on
Wednesday 9th May, 16.00 in lounge, Pinni B1029-30.

Agenda:

- info about Thesis process, finding a supervisor and thesis subject areas, and

- discussion in smaller groups.

Optional enrollment in NettiOpsu.

If you already have questions/comments in mind about the meeting, please send a note to Heli Rikala (cs-studies@uta.fi)!

Material from meeting:

Turunen, HTI Thesis process and some topics (pdf 9.5.2018)

On this course, we dissect and discuss on academic papers (1-3 articles per session) on game design research, especially with a focus on game design epistemology, including seminal and relevant papers on other fields of design and design theory. Before each session, there is a preliminary task with a deadline. In order to pass the course, students need to meet the deadlines, participate to the sessions and conduct a literature review on pre-determined subjects at the end of the course.

Practical implementation in 2018:

This is an intermediate level programming course. The course is implemented in two parallel tracks: Java-based and web technology-based. Students can choose between the two tracks.

• The Java-based track requires basic Java programmin skills (e.g., TIEP1, TIEP5, TIEA2.1). and graphical user interface programming is done using Swing UI library using NetBeans IDE.

• The web technology-based track requires basic skills in JavaScript programming, HTML and CSS (e.g., TIETA9) and programming is done using React framework and Material-UI interface library.

The course grading is based on the completion of weekly programming exercises. Full remote participation is possible with per participant agreement. Lectures will be available on-line.

Passing this part of the course will result in 5cu marking which can be expanded to 10cu by completing a project work. The project can be done during the summer, or with special agreement, at later time.

Moodle is used during the course for communication and returning the exercises.