EUT 624 - User Experience Research

Course Objectives

1. To gain knowledge about the concept of User Experience and its basic principles and their place and importance in industrial design practice and research
2. To gain knowledge and experience on the methods used in User-Experience research
3. To gain the ability of selection of appropriate User-Experience methods for the assessment of industrial design project processes and outputs
4. Adapting User-Experience methods used in other fields into the industrial design field.

Course Description

The relation of the user experience field with usability and human factors and its evolution and with reference to these fields, basic concepts in user experience, theoretical infrastructure and framework of the field, the time-based dimension of user experience, technology acceptance, role of emotional experience in user experience, user-interfaces of physical products and methodical approaches in measuring and evaluating user experience in products: field studies, laboratory studies and questionnaires, product design approaches based on user-experiences