Interaction design is the design of the interaction between people and devices, systems or services. This interaction usually involves the ‘new technologies’ of computing and communications. But interaction design remains a creative activity – like architectural, graphic or product design. And it concerns the social value and cultural meaning of what is designed, as well as its functional efficiency and aesthetic appeal.
This site, run by Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor, mostly concerns their Interaction Design (IxD) programme in the Visual and Multimedia Communication track (clasVEM) of the Graduate Programme in Design at Iuav University of Venice, Italy.
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Iuav IxD teams shine in the international Adobe awardsAgain three Iuav projects were finalists: students went to Taipei to receive their awards. Erika Rossi was the winner in the non-browser category with her project, I Mirabilia, interactive dolls for children in hospital; the others were Aura, an interactive pregnancy dress and Whispering Reeds, an augmented reality application. |
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Six new Masters graduatesSix Iuav IxD students graduated in 2011, all with full marks. The focus this year was on physical computing. Following a trend started in 2010, three thesis projects were for children and three for the family and the home. Papers about three of the projects have been accepted for international conferences. [more] |
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Get Connected, Stay ConnectedIuav IxD is one of six programs invited to join Microsoft's Design Expo which showcases exceptional design process and ideas from universities around the world. One IUAV IxD team, Voglia, went to Seattle to present its project. Read more about the projects here; and about Voglia on the Microsoft blog. |
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Recent keynote speechesGillian Crampton Smith has given three keynotes recently: at SIGRADI, the South American Digital Graphics conference, Bogotà; Tangible Embedded Interaction, Madeira, where she was also on a panel with Don Norman and Bill Verplank; and Design Principles and Practices, Rome, with Stefano Giovannoni and Stefano Boeri. |
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Interaction Design students' summer internshipsThis year students gained valuable international experience at Artefact in Seattle, Experientia in Turin, Fjord in Madrid, IDEO in Palo Alto and Siemens Research in Princeton. Two IxD graduates gained Leonardo bursaries for postgraduate internships in Berlin. Read the employers' comments here. Photo Javier Martin Espart... |
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