An advanced design course on ubiquitous systems: evoking radical innovations using moblogging and ubiquitous learning (original) (raw)

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ABSTRACT The rapid proliferation of ubiquitous technologies in the design of products and systems led design schools and courses to update their curriculum. The Delft University of Technology also did so and is now in the process of collecting wider evaluation. For a couple of years we are teaching an advanced course on ubiquitous technology within the M.Sc. curriculum of Integrated Product Design. This advanced course teaches the basic principles of ubiquitous technologies for students and, at an early stage, seeks their innovative insights in a challenging design problem. In this course a design infrastructure, as well as an atmosphere triggering radical innovations and out-of-the-box creative thinking based on group sessions, mobile blogs, augmented reality tools, etc., have been established. We observed how ubiquitous systems, ubiquitous learning applications and design creativity support one another. This paper reports on the way it is implemented at Delft, and on results achieved. We present student design cases to illustrate how the curriculum is operationalized and how students use the freedom in the program to adapt the process to their case.

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