Software Atelier 2: Human Computer Interaction

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Goal of the course is to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge of human-centered design of interfaces for computing systems.

The course starts with an introduction to ethics that investigates the many ways and venues information and communication technologies can be used maliciously. The course moves on to introduce the concept of user-centred design to produce usable, useful and used tools. The different stages from ideation to paper prototyping are covered in theory and practice.

Teaching Mode

Theoretical concepts will be provided through instructor-led lectures. Theory will be put to good use in practice, by letting students engage in group work to deliver a project, developed through progressive stages of design and prototyping.

Editions

Class Semester Instructor Teaching Assistant(s) Software Atelier II 2023 Spring Silvia Santini Irene Zanardi | Nouran Abdalazim Software Atelier II 2022 Spring Silvia Santini Leandro Soares Guedes | Nouran Abdalazim Software Atelier II 2021 Spring Silvia Santini Leandro Soares Guedes | Rodrigo Benedito Otoni Software Atelier II 2020 Spring Silvia Santini | Monica Landoni Rodrigo Benedito Otoni | Ilaria Scarabottolo Software Atelier II 2019 Spring Monica Landoni -

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Silvia Santini
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Silvia Santini
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Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.