Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- creative engagement with key ideas and debates in e-textiles and wearable technologies and their professional contexts and challenges.
Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically analyse existing e-textile solutions, integrating a transdisciplinary approach to research, applying a holistic design system approach to co-create new protypes/products for an identified end user or participating stakeholder.
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate an appraising approach to exploring, evaluating, developing and validating your choices in electronics, textiles and e-textiles, formulating a strong rationale and critical reflection in the development of your design.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use inclusive, ethical and sustainable practices to design and evaluate an assessment output evidencing techniques and research methods
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- design and create an assessment output that demonstrates creative problem- solving and effective communication techniques
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 252 |
Teaching | 48 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
S. Wang, K. Yang & Y. Yuanyuan,- Chapter In, Pfannstiel, Mario A. (ed.) Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation: Development, Innovation, Change (2023). Inclusive smart textile design for healthy ageing: discovering the health and well-being needs of people aged 60+ in the UK.. Springer Nature [ebook chapter].
T. Hardjono, D.L. Shrier & S. Pentland (2019). Trusted data: a new framework for identity and data sharing, . MIT Press [ebook].
L, van Veldhoven (ed.) (2016). Advances in smart medical textiles: treatments and health monitoring, . Woodhead [ebook].
Watkins, S.M. & Dunne, L.E., (2016). Functioning clothing design: from sportswear to swimsuits. [ebook].
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Presentation
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback:
- Final Assessment:
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |