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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Mood and meaning in interaction design

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:08:54 +0000

Teacher Gillian Crampton-Smith Venue Tuesday 15 March 2012, 14:00-15:30 SUPSI-DACD Campus Trevano, building A, room 201 Description Until recently the design of interactive products and systems has been focused on efficiency and ease of use. But the artefacts we use should do more than be efficient: they carry meaning for our culture. Professor Crampton Smith will elaborate this theme, using [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Enactive Spaces: Or how does activated matter affect creative practices?

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:08:34 +0000

Teacher Karmen Franinovic Venue Wednesday 7 March 2012, 14:00-16:00 SUPSI-DACD Campus Trevano, building A, room 301 Description Since more then ten years, physical computing has drastically changed the way in which we use digital technologies in design and architecture. However, responsive environments and objects are still a collage of hardware components that activate their materials and structures, lights and [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Designing Advanced Artifacts and Networks

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:00:29 +0000

Teachers Massimo Banzi, Innocenzo Rifino, Diego Rossi Description DIY, digital fabrication, open source software and hardware are opening up new opportunities for creating intelligent artifacts that explore alternative approaches to design, production and business models. Key concepts of this revolution are openness, customisability and connectedness: people are able to access information, share over the internet, on how to [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Designing Advanced Services

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:58:28 +0000

Teachers Gianluca Brugnoli, Fabio Sergio And Frog Design Team Description Digital service design for healthcare systems The world of healthcare delivery is being revolutionized as “the people formerly know as patients” gain access to new connected products and services that empower them to take better control of their lives and health. Web-based and mobile applications that can [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Designing Advanced Environments

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:48:28 +0000

Teachers Bill Keays, In Partership With Le Cirque Du Soleil Description This course addresses the notion of interactivity as an immersive, environmental experience. Actions of cause and effect between subjects and objects extend to encompass setting, be it natural, urban, or architectural. Discussion on current practices, emerging technologies and social relevance work to inform students in the [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Programming Interactive Objects 1

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:00:20 +0000

Teacher Andreas Gysin Description Aim of the workshop is to give a quick introduction to programming. During the first week students will learn the basics of the Processing environment and to write their first sketches. A project assignment will be given and students will have to develop one (or) more concepts starting from an idea and then [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: A Year in the Life of an Interaction Design Studio

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:59:29 +0000

Teachers
Giorgio Olivero, Fabio Franchino
Description
This talk presents the huge variety of projects realized by ToDo in the past 12 months.
The presentation will illustrate the studio’s work on exhibitions, interactive installations, iOS apps and the newborn independent design label Better Nouveau.

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Smart Cities - Engaging People in Sustainable Lifestyles

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:56:28 +0000

Teacher Jan-Christoph Zoels Description Encouraging behavioural change for sustainable lifestyles requires activities across a number of different levels, including personal behavioural change, infrastructure improvement, and reforming of community values and norms. Service design for sustainability facilitates change in each of these areas, by offering alternative, greener options for people’s daily lifestyle needs, providing more sustainable infrastructure, and creating [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Making Sense - Putting People First

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:55:29 +0000

Teacher Jan-Christoph Zoels Description This talk presents some key design methods to inform contemporary interaction design praxis. How do we come up with new ideas for our interactions with devices, services or applications? As more and more devices support location-aware, contextual or rich media, how will we interact with them, choose content, navigate or connect multiple sources of [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Innovation in the Connected World: Meet frog

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:54:28 +0000

Teacher
Fabio Sergio
Description
A brief introduction to frog’s approach to innovation and design methodologies followed by a deep dive into a few selected case studies that illustrates our process in action.

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Pervasive User Experience

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:53:09 +0000

Teacher Gianluca Brugnoli Description The design of services and interactions is more and more the design of pervasive and multichannel systems based on multiple devices and screens. The design’s challenges are shifted to an upper level: connecting the various touchpoints designing complex systems and platforms for experiences and services. This new point of view – together [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Big Data: Entering the Age of Exabytes

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:52:23 +0000

Teacher
David Boardman
Description
Emerging practices, opportunities and future scenarios.

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Designing for Behaviour Change

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:51:38 +0000

Teacher Giorgio Baresi Description Although today many mHealth solutions are targeted at helping patients manage their diseases, most of them still don’t keep into consideration people’s real needs, and do not really leverage their innermost motivations. How can we move the focus of mHealth solutions from curing to caring, from managing chronic diseases to preventing them? In [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Artistic and Technical Aspects of Stage-based Interaction

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:49:28 +0000

Teacher Klaus Obermaier Description Designing multimedia dance or theatrical performances means to merge different languages, to manage several media – sounds, images, videos, lights, colours – and to create one composite thought by combining digital contents and real environments in real time. The seminar introduces the students to the topics concerning artistic and technical aspects of stage-based [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Paper Prototyping & Toy Sketching

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:45:28 +0000

Teachers Fred Voorhorst & Tom Brooks Description The workshop focuses on the initial steps of the interaction design process, specifically on the idea-sketching phase. In interaction design, as in any design discipline, sketching serves several purposes. First, it is a way to organize your ideas. This goes beyond the act of documenting. During the act of sketching [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: 3D Prototyping

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:44:28 +0000

Teacher Enrico Bassi Description The course aims at giving the basis of one of the most diffused and versatile 2D and 3D software: Rhinoceros V4. At the end of the course the student will know how to design a small object of low or intermediate complexity, based on the technologies chosen to produce it. The focus of the [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Semiotics for Technical Fields

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:42:28 +0000

Teacher Alvise Mattozzi Description What is the meaning of a technical object? How does a device or an interface make sense? In what way an interaction is based on certain significations, deploys and transforms them? How does an artifact articulates meanings? These are some of the questions we will try to answer during the “Semiotics for technical [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Programming Interactive Objects 2

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:40:20 +0000

Teacher Andreas Gysin Description Aim of the workshop is to give students the skills to organize and structure the code of more complex projects. Students will learn how to write, instantiate and extend classes. A project assignment involving user interaction will be given. Objectives After the second week of learning Processing, the students will have the very basic [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Concepts and Prototypes, Test and Verify

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:57:29 +0000

Teacher Fred Voorhorst Description This course is an integral part of the design course Designing Advanced Artifacts and Networks. In parallel to this design course, specific activities will be performed to supporting the development of prototypes in the light of ability to test and validate. Objectives The objective of this course is to apply methods and methodologies as [...]

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Serena Cangiano wrote a new blog post: Web Technologies for Interaction Design

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:56:29 +0000

Teacher Nicola Rizzo Description HTML5 and related technologies like CSS3 and javascript are supported by a wide variety of different devices: pc, smartphones, tablets. Today it is possible to build compelling user interfaces using these languages and run them on different devices to display graphics, play audio or video files and elaborate them in real time, store [...]

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