Undergraduate - UnitIDE2701 - Product interface design

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Mark Richardson

Synopsis

This unit introduces the topic of person/product user interface. The mechanical and electro-mechanical systems that determine the relationship between a user's action and its outcome. The unit focuses upon products, environments, and systems, defining their form as it relates to how they are used. The unit covers how these products will be situated socially and culturally.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:

be able to analyse information and to interpret into a logical flow chart the information required for the operation of electronic and electro-mechanical products;
develop sensitivity to understanding user interface issues such as conceptual models, affordance and mapping between interface and functions, as well as creating feedback to actions;
develop and prepare a series of working graphic user interfaces from a given or developed database(s);
understand and practice the rules of occupational health and safety in force in the industrial design studio