Course code

IFI7388.DT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Interaktsioonidisaini psühholoogia

Course title in English

Psychology for Interaction Design

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The course aims for explaining psychological aspects in processes and methods of interaction design. The course supports future designers in understanding the psychological aspects of the human factor while using an interactive system. Considering human needs, conventions, preferences, cognitive capabilities, motivations, emotions and social influences on users' behaviour, enables creating systems that are for example commercially more successful, easier to use, safe, trustworthy and pleasurable.

Brief description of the course

The course consists of eight topics. First four about psychological phenomena and the following four about application of the former in interaction design:
1. senses, perception and attention;
2. cognition – conscious and unconscious;
3. emotions and decision making;
4. experience and user experience;
5. mental models, human as information processor;
6. gulfs of execution and evaluation;
7. embodied cognition, embodied interaction;
8. gestalt principles.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- considers psychological phenomena in human interactions with technology;
- evaluates human factor in use of interactive systems;
- designs interactive systems by optimising psychological factors.

Teacher

Mati Mõttus

The course is a prerequisite

Study programmes containing that course

Human-Computer Interaction (IFIMM/25.DT)