Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Work effectively as part of a team, recognising the different roles within the team, and reflecting on both your own and the team's performance
- Solve complex problems in creative and innovative ways
- Manage a project effectively
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- User-centred and participatory design processes
- The main concepts that underpin the design of user interfaces
- The multidisciplinary nature of the design of software systems, and the range of contributory disciplines (software engineering, human factors, cognitive psychology, graphics design, ethics, etc.)
- Agile methodologies for software project management
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate engineering techniques and tools
- Specify, design, develop, test and evaluate a prototype interactive software
Syllabus
- Human-computer interaction
- User-centred and participatory design
- Requirements capture
- The software development lifecycle
- Agile methodologies for software project management
- Evaluation and user acceptance testing methodologies
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The content of this module is delivered through lectures, the module website, directed reading and pre-recorded materials.
Students work on their understanding through a combination of independent study, preparation for timetabled activities and supervision meetings, along with formative assessments in the form of coursework assignments.
Students work on their practical skills, professional skills and technical understanding in peer discussions, design meetings and supervision meetings.
Type | Hours |
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Project supervision | 12 |
Follow-up work | 18 |
Wider reading or practice | 61 |
Lecture | 36 |
Completion of assessment task | 151 |
Revision | 16 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 6 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
T. Lethbridge and R. Laganiere (2005). Object-Oriented Software Engineering . McGraw Hill.
I. Sommerville (2007). Software Engineering . Addison-Wesley.
Cockburn. Agile Software Development .
Sims and Johnson. Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction .
Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman . Debugging Teams .
Cohn. User Stories Applied .
M. Fowler and K. Scott (1997). UML Distilled. Addison-Wesley.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
This module is assessed by a combination of coursework and a written examination.
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Examination | 40% |
Group project report | 50% |
Individual reflection | 10% |