Ubiquitous Computing
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Course code
IFI7162.DT
old course code
IFI7162
Course title in Estonian
Lausandmetöötlus
Course title in English
Ubiquitous Computing
ECTS credits
4.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The course aims to provide the skills necessary for analysing digital services that work across a broad range of devices. By participating in the course students will acquire hands-on experience of designing distributed interactions.
Brief description of the course
The course consists of the following modules:
• Mapping the avatar ecology of a digital service;
• Describing distributed interaction scenarios;
• Describing interactions in an artefact ecology with the distributed interaction design (DIxD) pattern language;
• Composing a design brief for a distributed service;
• Sketching distributed interactions.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows what service avatars are and how to map an avatar ecology;
- can describe distributed interaction scenarios;
- can describe distributed interactions by using design patterns;
- can compose design briefs;
- can sketch distributed interactions.

Teacher
Ilja Šmorgun
Additional information
In general students are required to participate in all workshops, which amounts to 10% of the final grade.

No separate exam is foreseen. The components of the final grade are described in the Assessment methods section.
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