UX / Interaction Design

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design

Instructor(s)

Yoshifumi Nishida / Mikiko Oono

Class Format

Lecture/Exercise (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

1-4 Fri

Class

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Course Code

ESD.F403

Number of credits

110

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

In the in the centenarian era, a society that fosters resilience to changes in living function (a “living function resilient society”) is required now. User experience and interaction design is becoming quintessentially important for creating such society.

This course “User experience and interaction design” deals with a systematic design for improving our quality of life (QoL) through deeply understanding our daily lives with technologies. The systematic design indicates daily life design from the viewpoint of three layers: a) body functions and structures layer, b) activities layer, and c) social participation layer.

Course description and aims

By the end of the course, students will be able to :
- imagine innovative concepts for improving our daily life through user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design.
- analysis and design our daily life structurally from the viewpoints of a) body functions and structures layer, b) activities layer, and c) social participation layer. Comprehensive viewpoints from these three layers are known as "International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)," which was proposed by the World Health Organization in 2001.
- present new ideas for improving quality of life through UX/UI design based on ICF

Keywords

daily life design, experience design, interaction design, ICF, design workshop, artificial intelligence, IoT

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Concretely, in this course, we will offer three major components: (1) a lecture on how to analyze our daily lives using the concept of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF (*1)）, which was proposed by the World Health Organization in 2001 and that is one of the most standardized methods for analyzing our daily lives, (2) a lecture on useful technologies and methods for collecting and analyzing data from daily lives, and (3) group works for designing a better life for solving real problems in daily lives using smart technologies based on the concept of ICF.

In the lecture (1), we will also introduce real problem to be solved using recent statistics and a variety of video clips. In the lecture (2), participants can learn some programming methods for information process on physiological data, daily activity data and social participation data. So it is recommended to bring your laptop if you have. In the final activities (3), we try to explore innovative solutions through group activities. So in this class, we welcome the participation of those who want to use engineering technology to change society better.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

In every class (from #2, #4, #6, #8, and #10 of this course), students need to submit a short report that can be completed within approximately 15 minutes. On the team project (from #12 and #13 of this course), students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for presentation materials.

Textbook(s)

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Reference books, course materials, etc.

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Evaluation methods and criteria

• Short Report at Every Class: 30%
• Team Presentation: 40%
• Final Report: 30%

Related courses

• ESD.F404 ： Affective Engineering / Emotional Design
• MEC.L432 ： Human-Centered Design
• MEC.H231 ： Design Engineering
• TSE.C202 ： System Design Project
• LAS.R101 ： Mono-Tsukuri (Craft and Design)

Prerequisites

N/A