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

All courses taught at the University of Madeira unless otherwise mentioned.

2011

  • CapStone Project I (spring) / CapStone Project II (fall)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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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