ITD 2011 Has Begun

Interactive Technology Design (ID4220 6 ECTS) is a course in the DFI master programat the Industrial Design Faculty of the Delft University of Technology.

Supervisory staff: Aadjan van der Helm, Walter Aprile

I am involved in ITD as a design mentor. I proposed a design brief and lead 15 students to explore Generation Y ways of working this time.

In the mid 1980s we saw the emergence of the field of human computer interaction, including workstations with graphical user interfaces and color reprographic systems. By the 1990s the integration of modalities of interaction such as touch, graphics, auditory feedback, speech synthesis, and speech recognition, became technically feasible. The development of new design methods, input devices, rapid prototyping tools, and multimodal interaction styles opened up a new world of interaction design possibilities. More recently we have begun to see the migration of human-computer interaction technology towards physical products and in ambient environments. New wireless technologies and high-band width communication networks have created possibilities for context aware and personal mobile and in-home products. Developments in local storage devices , materials, sensors and actuators, and dialogue management technologies supported by user modeling, have further opened up new doors in designing for interaction.

The course, aims to equip graduate students with design theory while gaining practical experience in the development of products which utilize potentials of embedded technology in products in terms of enriching the user experience.