2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Technology and Innovation Management Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
An introduction to user research
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Instructor(s)
- Taro Sugihara
- Class Format
- Lecture (HyFlex)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 9-10 Sat
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TIM.A412
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 31, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This lecture provides an overview of user characteristics that focuses on individuals (physiology, personality, etc.), behaviors in society, and behaviors against immature technologies. This also aims to deepen the understanding of the user's behaviors and social scientific data regarding them.
Course description and aims
The aims of this lecture are:
1. to grasp the characteristics of ICT use,
2. to grasp the behavior and cognition against handling for artifacts and information,
3. to grasp the overview of metrics for user research.
Keywords
user research, user experience, human-centered design
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Learning the topic in each class and deepen the understanding by a report at the last class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction | Understanding the overview of this lecture. |
| Class 2 | User characteristics as an individual 1 (sensation) | Understanding the user characteristics from the point of sensation. |
| Class 3 | User characteristics as an individual 2 (cognition) | Understanding the user characteristics from the point of cognition. |
| Class 4 | User characteristics in society 1 | Understanding the user characteristics from the point of behavior in society. |
| Class 5 | User characteristics in society 2 | Understanding the user characteristics from the point of behavior in society. |
| Class 6 | User characteristics in society 3 | Understanding the user characteristics from the point of behavior in society, on the basis of cases. |
| Class 7 | user experience and human-centered design | Understanding the concept of user experience and human-centered design as the methodology with the user-research-based solution. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Not assigned.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Not assigned.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Contribution to the class: 30%, report: 70%
Related courses
- TIM.B531 ： Management of Information and Knowledge I
- TIM.B532 ： Management of Information and Knowledge II
- TIM.A513 ： Study design in user research
Prerequisites
None.