Data literacy for Aalto teams
Developing data literacy in a team primarily means learning together, sharing knowledge and collaborating.
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Instruction letter to admitted students in Nordic Master in Visual Studies and Art Education students in 2025 .
Programming for Designers
This course is an introduction into programming for designers without requirements for prior programming experience. Its special emphasis is on designing and realizing visions of graphics and interactions in digital products.
Emergent User interfaces
The course gives an overview of new and emerging UI paradigms that go beyond traditional WIMP interfaces. These include tangible interaction, multimodal interaction (audio, haptic, smell and taste) and the various sensors and sensing techniques and technologies used to implement them.
From Concepts to Designs*
* RE-NAMED TO EMERGING DESIGNS II FOR CLARITY, STARTING 2024-25 STUDY YEAR
The course has a lecture and workshop series, that supports a team design projects starting from an existing design concept which then is iteratively developed to more mature design. Students will use various physical and digital models to develop and evaluate projet.
Product Development Project
Product Development Project (PdP) is a five-period-long course that invites Master’s students from all backgrounds, but mainly engineering, industrial design, and business, to tackle challenges of collaborating companies. The teams form in September and deliver a functioning prototype in the final Gala in May.
Educational game prototypes
Educational games come in all shapes and sizes. The question is: what would you like your educational game to do in your online teaching? Here we offer inspiration through three different prototypes that facilitate learning in different ways: through exploration, through application of knowledge, or for instruction.
How to acquire 360° pictures
When you start creating a 360° learning environment you will need 360° pictures. There are a few ways of acquiring 360° pictures: taking them yourself, having a professional take them for you and downloading them from a picture bank free of charge or for a fee.