Ergonomics 2 - Culture and Usability

11B1216

Bachelor

German, English

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

Increasing bilingual delivery of the module, in cooperation with international partners.

In addition to purely aesthetic issues, the discipline of product design deals with product development and usability in context (functional as well as emotional). 

A product is well-designed when it can be used by users as comfortably and logically as possible and enriches their world of interaction. In order to achieve this, it is important to know the underlying relationships between users and the product. 

The course serves to convey methodically correct and effective analyses of these relationships and the corresponding application and evaluation of designed parameters in the form of design tasks. The contents of the course enable the students to apply objective analyses and design processes in a human-centred product development process.

The course focuses not only on the living environment known to the students, but also on international and intercultural contexts. The course sensitises students to new contexts and users. It prepares students for analysis and design tasks in an international context.

1. methods of ergonomics and UX

1.1 Status quo in research and application

1.2 What evaluation methods exist

1.3 Evaluation

2. application

2.1 Testing and evaluation of methods

2.2 Application to practical products and design work

3 Transformation into the product development process

3.1 Modification and personalisation of methods

3.2 Further development

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Homework / Assignment

• Presentation

30 Pages

Successful participation in the event 'Ergonomics 1'

Students are able to integrate and apply knowledge of ergonomics and user experience, as well as their evaluation methods and tools, into the design process.

Students who have successfully completed this module know about the ergonomic and emotional requirements of users. They can embed ergonomics in the development process and use it to achieve goals. They know about the psychological aspects of developing interacting systems in an international and intercultural context and environment (man-machine-environment).

Excursions to companies, museums or exhibitions are planned as part of the course and can be taken by the students on a voluntary basis.

Students who have successfully studied this module will understand established and new methods of scientific inquiry in an ergonomic context and will use a range of standard and some advanced procedures and methods to process and present data in a structured way to gain, process and reflect on information.

Students who have successfully completed this module will be able to embed usability engineering and UX in the development process and use it to achieve their goals; they will know the basics of designing interaction systems. They are able to integrate gender and diversity aspects into development.

After successful completion of the project, the students are able to reflect on their own position, they question established methods and procedures of the discipline and develop their own methods and procedures for ergonomic analysis and development from these.

Students who have successfully studied this module will critically analyse and evaluate ideas, concepts, information and issues used in the general context of ergonomic development, they will use a range of analytical procedures to formulate design-based problem solutions to selected and/or standard problems/themes. They are able to apply and argue their knowledge - in an international context and in a team - in analysis and development.

The students develop an individual understanding of the discipline and its contents on the basis of what they have learned; they no longer argue from their own position, but on the basis of scientific methodologies and procedures, as well as experiments and developments they have carried out themselves, which are empirically validated. The students can distinguish between their own experience and generally valid knowledge and apply this knowledge in a reflective manner. They can integrate researched knowledge reflectively into an individual development process and transfer the knowledge.

• Hofmann, Thomas

• Hofmann, Thomas