SI 388: Putting the Human in HCI

Graduate Student Instructor

This course is for undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. The course introduces how to design effective interactive systems through an in-depth understanding of the needs and capabilities of the people who will use them. In this course, students work in small groups to examine human capabilities and behavior as they relate to the design of interactive information systems. Through engaging with contemporary theories and findings from the social sciences, students pay special attention to how these concepts influence the way we design for human interaction.

SI 658: Information Architecture

Graduate Student Instructor

This course is for graduate students at the University of Michigan. The course directs students to use ethnographic and observational methods to understand people, things, and environments. The students are required to articulate the spatiality of meaning and why certain kinds of information might mean or be perceived differently based on situation, location, and social contexts; critically reflect on the role of embodiment and the relationship between human and space. Students work in 6-person teams and use digital visualization tools to make models to represent dynamics in the environment, and propose a design intervention by leveraging AR/XR to tell the stories of human’s interaction with environment digitally.