Ian Oakley
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I was co-director of the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Professional Masters of Human-Computer Interaction (August 2009 - Jan 2012). Co-directorship held with Jenna Date (Carnegie Mellon University).

2014

  • Usability Engineering (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    AHE311. 3rd year undergraduate course covering usability and interaction design. Assessment via exams and project work.
  • Interactive Technology (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    ID304. Third year undergraduate design course on physical computing. Emphasised developing practical experience with physical computing technologies to realize design intent. Assessment via project.
  • Cognitive Ergonomics (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    AHE202. 2rd year undergraduate course on cognitive human factors: attention, perception, decision making, error, displays, controls, etc. Assessment via project, case studies and exam.
  • Interaction Design (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    ID527. Graduate level design course on physical computing. Emphasised developing practical experience with physical computing technologies to realize design intent. Seminar readings explored research through design as a mode of inquiry. Assessment via project.

2013

  • Cognitive Ergonomics (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    AHE202. 2rd year undergraduate course on cognitive human factors: attention, perception, decision making, error, displays, controls, etc. Assessment via project, case studies and exam.
  • Usability Engineering (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    AHE311. 3rd year undergraduate course covering usability and interaction design. Assessment via exams and project work.
  • Interactive Technology (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    ID304. Third year undergraduate design course on physical computing. Emphasised developing practical experience with physical computing technologies to realize design intent. Assessment via project. Co-taught with Prof Chajoong Kim.
  • Thinking with Things (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    DHE743. Masters level course covering theories and readings in embodied cognition and physical and tangible computing technologies. Assessment via project work.
  • Research Methods and Statistics (School of Design and Human Engineering, UNIST)
    DHE540. Graduate introduction/refresher to the research methods and statistics used in behavioral science. Assessment via quizzes, exams and class project.

2012

  • Thinking with Things (School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University)
    48-730. Masters level course covering theories and readings in embodied cognition and physical and tangible computing technologies. Assessment via project work.

2011

  • CapStone Project I (spring) / CapStone Project II (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-671 and 05-672. Masters level project course supervising three groups of four students as they engage with industrial partners (Portugal Telecom, Novabase and Logica) in an 8 month collaborative HCI project and consultancy.
  • Human Factors (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-813. Masters level applied/engineering psychology course taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students. Reduced class simaltaineously taught to LDMI undergraduates.
  • Embodied Interaction (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Masters level course in the design of advanced user interfaces taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students.

2010

  • CapStone Project I (spring) / CapStone Project II (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-671 and 05-672. Masters level project course supervising a goup of four students as they engage with an industrial partner (PT Innovation) in an eight month collaborative HCI project and consultancy.
  • Human Factors (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-813. Masters level applied/engineering psychology course taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students. Reduced class simaltaineously taught to LDMI undergraduates.
  • Embodied Interaction (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Masters level course in the design of advanced user interfaces taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students.

2009

  • Software Architectures for User Interfaces (spring) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-631. Masters level course in user interface software taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students.
  • Human Factors (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-813. Masters level applied/engineering psychology course taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students. Reduced class simaltaineously taught to LDMI undergraduates.
  • Embodied Interaction (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Masters level course in the design of advanced user interfaces taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students.

2008

  • Programming Usable Interfaces (spring) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-630. Masters level course taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa final year design students.
  • Human Factors (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Carnegie Mellon University course code 05-813. Masters level applied/engineering psychology course taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students.
  • Embodied Interaction (fall) (University of Madeira)
    Co-taught with Valentina Nisi (University of Madeira). Masters level course in the design of advanced user interfaces taught to Carnegie Mellon|Portugal MHCI students and UMa informatics engineering students.

You can also check some of my student feedback (from fall 2008 HF and EI classes)

Other teaching/workshop activities

  • KAIST - Human Factors and Psychophysical Research Methods (July 2011)
    Four week summer seminar series covering human factors, research methods, experimental design, statistics and psychophysical methods.
  • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Psychophysical Research Methods (July 2011)
    Four day summer seminar series covering experimental design, statistics and psychophysical methods.
  • Future Places Festival - Stories in the Mirror (Oct 2010)
    Three day workshop on creating and producing locative media for display on mobile devices. In collabroation with Valentina Nisi (University of Madeira).
  • ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction 2010 - Graduate Student Symposium mentor (Jan 2010)
    Invited mentor to a group of 12 graduate students. Invited by Mark Gross (Carnegie Mellon University) and in collaboration with Ellen Do (Georgia Tech) and Ivan Poupyrev (Disney Research)
  • Future Places Festival - Uncovering Urban Stories (Oct 2009)
    Three day workshop on creating and producing locative media for display on mobile devices. In collabroation with Valentina Nisi (University of Madeira).
  • Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Summer School - Embodied Futures workshop (June 2009)
    Three day workshop covering embodied interaction and the design of novel services/products. In collaboration with Nuno Nunes (University of Madeira), Lia Patricio (FEUP) and Valentina Nisi (University of Madeira).
  • Lab:USE Summer School - High 5 (July 2008)
    Three day workshop on hardware hacking and prototyping focused on creating communicative phsyical computing systems. In collaboration with Stefan Agamanolis, Matt Karau and Cindy Jeffers (Distance Lab)
  • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology - Practical Psychophysics (2007)
    Two day lecture course providing an introduction to psychphysics and related explerimental and statisical procedures.
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