Class Tangible Interfaces II

This discipline aims at the production of educational video game project with integration of original tangible interface, functional and enhancing the emotional experience;
It has the following main fields of acton ant intervention areas:
- autonomous work and management in real project environment;

- Phidget and Arduino platforms;
- prototyping techniques and Interaction Design concepts in tangible interface design;
- real customer relationship skills;
- creative, conceptual and technical skills in the proposed practical projects.
The project and contents taught aim to enrich the production capacity areas of interaction and pedagogical games.

Design, prototyping and production of original tangible interface;
Educational video game production with original tangible interface integration;

Project management;
Sensor integration in applications developed in Unity;
Application of presentation strategies and planning in real project;
Application of affordance and emotional design concepts;
Stimulation of conceptual, design and autonomous work skills.

It is a theoretical/practical course that combines expository interventions of the programme contents with the elaboration of hardware-software package exercises necessary for the production of video games and tangible controller accessible to people with intellectual disabilities. The project is developed in collaboration with partners in the field of intellectual disability (ID) and culture, with several validation/testing phases with clients of the partner institution in the field of ID.
The project can be developed from scratch in the semester, but ideally continues the contents developed in the Tangible Interfaces II course. 

Bernier, S., Luyt, B. & (Autor), Reinhard, T.. (2015). Make: Design for 3d Printing. O'Reilly Media.

Blum, J. (2013). Exploring Arduino. Wiley.
Moggridge, B. (2007). Designing Interactions. MIT Press.