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Interaction Design programme at IUAV

This page describes the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice.

AIM

The Interaction Design programme aims to develop, for each of its students, a portfolio of knowledge, skills and design work suitable for a career in the new field of interaction design. It is run by Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor, who are happy to advise prospective and current students on their academic and professional careers.

COMPONENTS

The programme comprises:

• Four core courses: two Theory lecture/seminar courses and two Labs (design studio courses). It is recommended that the each Lab is repeated: that is, taken in Year 1 and repeated in Year 2

• Six recommended optional courses

• A thesis (prova finale, tesi di laurea) on a topic related to interaction design.

It is not obligatory to take all components of this programme, or to repeat the labs. Not to do this, however, reduces a student’s opportunity to accumulate the knowledge, skills and design portfolio needed to find interesting and rewarding employment in the interaction design field.

CORE COURSES

The core courses, all conducted in English, are:

• Interaction Design Theory 1 (Design dell’interazione, Philip Tabor,
trimester 1)

• Interaction Design Lab 1 (Laboratorio di comunicazione visuale e cinetica, Gillian Crampton Smith, trimester 1)

• Interaction Design Theory 2 (Telecomunicazioni, Gillian Crampton Smith, trimester 2)

• Interaction Design Lab 2 (Laboratorio di prototipazione di artefatti interattivi, Philip Tabor, trimester 2).

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RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL COURSES

These, all related to interaction design, and conducted in Italian, are:

Sistemi di elaborazione dell’immagine (Massimiliano Ciammaichella, trimester 1)

Storia dell’innovazione scientifica e tecnologica (Raimonda Riccini,
trimester 1)

Teoria della comunicazione (Giovanni Anceschi, trimester 1)

Applicazioni di computer grafica (Davide Riboli, trimester 2)

Laboratorio di cinema e televisione (Massimo Magri, trimester 2)

Programmazione di artefatti interattivi (Davide Rocchesso, trimester 3).

THESIS

The Interaction Design thesis on is typically a design of a device, service or system – demonstrated at the exam in projected and/or material form, and accompanied by an illustrated report. The report describes and justifies the design and is written in Italian (possibly with an English translation).

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Photo: Yaniv Steiner. Yaniv's 'Homebrew Wii' workshop, Lab 2, 2007.