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| Unit name |
Digital Health Group Design Project |
| Unit code |
COMSM0029 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
M/7
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. O'Kane |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None
|
| Co-requisites |
None
|
| School/department |
Department of Computer Science |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Engineering |
Description including Unit Aims
The aim of this unit is to provide students with practical experience in applying user-centred, participatory, theory-informed and evidence-based design methodologies to a real-world digital health or care challenge.
Unit content:
- Students will engage with a real-world digital health or care challenge outside of the clinical setting (i.e. looking at community or home-based care, not hospital settings)
- Approaches to participatory and user-centred design with health communities
- Development of low and medium fidelity prototypes
- Approaches to evaluating digital health and care interventions
Intended Learning Outcomes
Having completed this unit, the students will be able to:
- Critically engage in real-world challenges for health and care
- Demonstrate an ability to plan and deliver a design led solution based on the needs of health communities.
- Demonstrate an expert understanding of participatory and/or user-centred approaches towards evaluating, designing and implementing digital technologies for health and/or care
- Demonstrate a wide range of prototyping skills including using modern frameworks for developing simple mobile apps
- Demonstrate an understanding of how mobile apps handle user interaction
- Demonstrate the ability to present academic interaction design research in the format of a conference publication (such as to ACM CHI or ACM DIS) and a presentation
Teaching Information
This unit will be made up of a mixture of taught lectures and lab based practical sessions.
Assessment Information
Ethics application (with full ethics form, consent form, and information sheet as per University of Bristol Ethics Standards). 10%. ILO 1&2.
Group Project write up in conference format (maximum 10 page plus references in format suitable for submission to ACM CHI or ACM DIS conference). 60%. ILO 1-6
In-lab assessment of the development of a simple mobile app. 20%. ILO 4&5.
Group presentation of project. 10% ILO 1-6
Reading and References
Textbook: Preece, Jenny, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen Sharp. Interaction design: beyond human-computer interaction. John Wiley & Sons, 2015
Further readings will be given via Blackboard.
