2nd Term Schedule for ART7008 Thesis Development and Tutor

AIMS

To help students to get through UX-based product/service development process in their chosen domain area (with their own topic).

STRUCTURE

There will be two tracks on this course:

For those of whom already decided what to do for the final projects, this course will provide guidelines, procedures, methodologies and perspectives to follow, encouraging the students to develop ever interesting projects in the chosen field.

For those of who have not yet decided what to do for the final, this course will ask students to conduct a 10 weeks-long project with the theme of "Healthcare and Food Experience", "Wearable Technology with Sensors"

Through a series of readings, group discussions, sharing information, and tutoring, the students will get a sense of what it means by 'experience design approaches.' The core structure of the course can be simply described by the following diagram.

Week One:

Course Description / Course Structure / Course Schedule
Workshop (Areas of Interest) :
1st Term project review and theme exploration brainstorming

Week Two: 

Sketching Thesis Structure
Elements of Good Thesis Projects
Aims of your Study (Read through 'How to write a better thesis p.62~p.66)

Week Three: 

Proposal Review (Tutoring)
Title (Domain) Selection
Brainstorming for picking the Best Three Aims.

Week Four:

Aim & Scope of the Project
Writing Introduction:
"Earlier I described a standard structure for a thesis. Perhaps surprisingly, you could
devise this structure at a very early stage of the work. To do this, first write a draft
of your introductory chapter—the problem statement, the aim and scope, and the
steps you think you might take to achieve the aim. You may not feel too confident
about writing this introduction, because you suspect that it will have to be modified
later, as you get into your work. In this you are almost certainly correct, but that
should not prevent you from writing a draft or sketch introduction. What you are
trying to do is get started."

Week Five:

Developing proper research questions
Understanding target users and their patterns.

PERSONA DEVELOPMENT
(Iterative Interviewing & SNS Observation)

Get Ready for the Proposal Presentation (Tutoring)

Week Six:

Problem Statement Session (Hypothesis):
"In many disciplines, especially those based in quantitative approaches to research, there is an expectation that the problem statement expresses the relationship between two or more measurable properties and thus can be empirically tested. The problem can then be written in the form of a hypothesis, or be stated as a single question such as ‘To what extent do HEPA filters in ventilation systems reduce food contamination?’" (p. 63)

Week Seven:

Review of three threads of experience (Reading)
Product Review & Analysis based on the experience model

Week Eight:

Concept Story Building

(Messages - ways to deliver the message to the target users)

Week Nine:

Messages to (CMF, Interaction & Services)

Metaphor Image Board

Week Ten:

Interaction Storyboard

Menu Structure / Main Screen Design (Wire frame Design)

Final Presentation (Tutor & Discussion)

Week Eleven:

Final Presentation (Tutor & Discussion)

Week Twelve:

Summary & PDP Review