Date and schedule: 8.11, 9.11, 15.11 and 16.11 every day at 15-16:30
Extent: 2 ECTS
Teacher: Associate Professor José Abdelnour Nocera Email: jose.abdelnour-nocera@uwl.ac.uk
Coordinator and registration (University of Oulu): Dr. Mikko Rajanen Email: mikko.rajanen@oulu.fi
Moodle: https://moodle.oulu.fi/course/view.php?id=10526
Course Description
The aim of this PhD course is to raise awareness and to foster discussions around the notions of Participatory Design and Innovation for Socio-Technical Systems and Digital Community Infrastructures with implications to Social Change. The course addresses their interplay in the design, development, evaluation and deployment of interactive systems. A critical view towards mainstream design thinking is projected. Course Format The course consists of lectures, workshops and independent group work. Students are required to dedicate a substantial amount of time to independent group work. Empirical work is coordinated by the responsible teacher and conducted by PhD students. The results can be reported as a joint peer-reviewed publication. Course Project Working in teams, students will propose a plan to co-design an innovative service for Digital Infrastructures. With a team-based, hands-on approach, students will design new a digital service from initial framing to final solution proposals, using tools and methods for analysing and visualizing the forces that affect communities and innovation. To do so, students are expected to analyze their work context and environment, identify opportunities, and develop new design solutions. Students will present their results in a professional report and seminar presentation (2 ECTS). The intended audience of the student presentation is (1) community decision makers who are authorized to initiate the implementation of your proposed service, and (2) designers and engineers who will work out the details of the new service offering that you designed. To prepare for the project, students are expected to do a preliminary research on the ways in which the researchers, designers and community participants can engage, and possible outcomes and to be reflected in a Strategy and Solution Roadmap. For an additional 1 ECTS, the project report can further be developed in a manuscript to be submitted as a peer-review publication.
Final presentation must touch on the following: - Case Study Summary - Innovation Context - Stakeholders and Personas - Proposed Innovation Types - Proposed Participatory Design Strategy - Value Hypothesis - Social Change - Concept Scenarios - Solution Storyboard - Strategy and Solution Roadmap - User Evaluation - Socio-Technical Systems
- Teacher: Mikko Rajanen