Interactivity & Play

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• record and document learning achievements to reflect, motivate and self-monitor

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• test, experiment and take risks with specialist equipment and tools including craft and digital

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the professional standards, skills, principles and process specific to your discipline

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate connections between purpose, practice, outcome, context and presentation

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to undertake problem identification and analysis to appropriately design and test a computing system and associated artefacts

Histories and theories of technology, games and play, and key contemporary developments in UX, design for play and interactive art will be delivered by staff and art and industry practitioners. Topics will change from year to year but could include innovation in digital game design, current relevant exhibitions and installations, serious games, street games, escape rooms, e-literature and interactive media, playful or performative social media interventions, networked toys, etc.

You will supported to set up user and play testing sessions to evaluate your project.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, screenings and seminar discussion of set reading.

Workshop based support for the development of project ideas, practical realisation, and user testing.

Further workshops on specific coding languages, platforms and systems.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Bogost, Ian (2007). Persuasive Games: the expressive power of videogames. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

De Lange, Michiel, Raessens, Joost, Frissen, Valerie, Lammes, Sybille & de Mul, Jos (eds) (2015). Playful Identities: the ludification of digital cultures. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.

Pink, Sarah, Ardèvol, Elisenda & Lanzeni, Débora (eds) (2016). Digital Materialities: design and anthropology. New York: Bloomsbury.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.