ADES 5460 - Interaction Design Inception-to-Pitch Capstone Project

6 hours

Designed to 1) facilitate a series of learning experiences that requires groups of two to four of its students to work together in interdisciplinary teams in collaboration with either an industry partner, a community organization partner, or, in many cases, both to 2) design and implement a human-centered interaction on behalf of a specific group or set or groups who are being adversely affected or inhibited by a particular set of social, economic, public policy, environmental or technological conditions. Each student team is challenged to develop and design an interactive system over the course of the semester that positively affects the behavior of their specified group or set of groups as they interact with particular products, environments, sets of protocols or procedures or systems within communities. No two student teams’ projects will evolve according to the same sets of parameters.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MA with a major in design and concentration in interaction design, or consent of instructor.

May be repeated for credit as topics vary for a maximum of 12 hours.