Overview

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Offerings

KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2023-2023
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2025-2025
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2024-2024
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2026-2026
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2023-2023
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2025-2025
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in a graduate-level IT course.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.
Demonstrate the ability to understand basic concepts and theories of human factors as it relates to information technology.
2.
Demonstrate the ability to formulate a creative design project.
3.
Demonstrate the ability to lead and participate in critical seminars on research papers.
4.
Demonstrate the ability to critically analyse one’s own and other’s ideas.
5.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate the project outcome as a written report in a rigorous and scientific manner.
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Demonstrate the ability to orally communicate the project to an audience in a professional manner.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:Topic 1 Introduction to Human Factors in IT Topic 2 Usability Topic 3 Evaluating User Interfaces Topic 4 Design and Evaluation of Multimedia, Websites and Mobile Devices Topic 5 The Cutting Edge of I/O; New Interface Paradigms Topic 6 User Differences; Considering Disabilities Topic 7 Groupware and Computer Supported Collaborative Work Topic 8 Net Society I Topic 9 Net Society II Topic 10 Information Technology and Ethics.
Other notes:Each weekly 3-hour session is spent as follows. The first hour consists of a lecture outlining important conceptual issues, theories and case studies. The second hour consists of a scholarly skills workshop, designed to equip students with a range of seminar, analysis, critical thinking, research and presentation skills. The third hour consists of a reading group, in which one or more students summarise and lead a discussion about selected papers of interest on the unit topics.