PS30100/50118 – Interacting with Technology 2010

Dr Danaë Stanton Fraser

Welcome to the Interacting with Technology 4^th Year Option. Lectures for Interacting with Technology are on Tuesday at 1.15pm in 3E 2.4 (weeks 3-7 in the 6 West lab) from 9^th February – 27^th April 2010. Please note the course finishes on 27^th April but there will be a session the following week for discussion of essays.

The course will explore the effects of emerging technology paradigms on a range of psychology research areas including spatial, educational and methodological issues. A series of lectures will be followed by student presentations.

Lecture slides

• Introduction & Lecture 1: Children, schools and technology pdf
• Lecture 2: Mobile technologies and sensors
• Lecture 3: Mobile and tangible technologies for children
• Lecture 4: Case study: Children and technology (slides 6 per page)
• Lecture 5. Exploring spatial cognition with novel technologies (slides 6 per page)
• Lecture 6: Aiding spatial cognition in children (slides 6 per page)
• Lecture 7: Evaluating 'in the wild' (slides 6 per page)

Assessment

Your assessment consists of a presentation and one piece of written coursework. There is no exam.

Presentation and Essay Questions. Please choose one from the titles below:

· Discuss the merits and drawbacks of technology design partnerships?

· Is the use of ‘new technology’ beneficial to children’s education?

· Is it better to evaluate in the lab or ‘in the wild’? Discuss.

A timetable for your presentations can be found here.

Here are examples of previous presentations as a guide: lab versus field debate and impact on children’s learning (note the questions they were answering were different!)

Essays should be no longer than 2500 words. A time slot has been reserved for you to discuss your essay.

Deadline 12 noon Tuesday 18^th May 2010.

References

Please see the end of each set of slides and the ACM Portal http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm for reading following the lectures

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