Collaborative systems are all around in human establishments. They help in connecting friends, families, co-workers, students and others. This course, therefore investigates the design of systems to support collaborative activity. Most of the work that people do requires some degree of coordination and communication with others.
Successful designs require: social psychological insight into group processes; computer science insight into mechanisms to organize information, coordinate, share, and communicate, and human computer interaction (HCI) design insight to achieve successful designs for computer-mediated tools. The course focuses primarily on the first two and examines problems and solutions in group coordination and systems including group decision support, organizational memory, virtual spaces, and collaborative design.
- The world is currently in a digital era where human beings are surrounded by many devices that support data collection in the form of text, video, voice, as well as other forms.
- Associated human-machine interactions create a huge amount of digital data sets; some are structured, while most are unstructured.
- Although the explosion of digital data is associated with new technological challenges, there are a lot of promising opportunities across sectors.
- While it offers a great opportunity to inform research, policy, and decision-making spheres, there are pending data management challenges that have to be addressed.
- Trends indicate skyrocketing investment trends for hardware and software that will support the future, as well as creating new business opportunities.
- Likewise, initiatives that make data more accessibleand usable are trending worldwide.
- This calls for more specialized courses that will prepare students with the skills to tap the opportunitieswhile innovating on various options to address the challenges in the rapidly changing digital world.
Welcome to the Application of Learning Theory in Education Multimedia Design (FB 0222) course.