Administrivia
Professor Erik Wilde
Course Description
Three hours of lecture, one hour of Laboratory per week. The Extensible Markup Language (XML), with its ability to define formal structural and semantic definitions for metadata and information models, is the key enabling technology for information services and document-centric business models that use the Internet and its family of protocols. This course introduces XML syntax, styles and transformations, and schema languages. It balances conceptual topics with practical skills for designing and implementing conceptual models as XML schemas.
Course Information
Course Dates: February 5 to May 6, 2008
Lecture Schedule: Tuesday 5:00pm-6:00pm in 202 South Hall
Units: 2
Grading Option: Pass/Not Pass only
Course Work
February 5 : Tuesday
In a rapidly-changing, uncertain environment, the ability to think constructively about various future possibilities is more important than ever. Foresight Specialists,
Scenario Planners,
Trend Spotters
and good old Futurists
provide a specialized service that few businesses, non-profits, and governments have organically — and fewer still recognize that they need. I'll talk about why today's futurism has more to do with imagining the possible than thinking the unthinkable, why futurist ethics matters more than futurist economics, and whether futurism might just be the best job out there for the easily-distracted generalist.
Guest Lecturer: Jamais Cascio of Open the Future
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Lecture Notes
Guest Lecturer Biography:
Jamais Cascio writes about the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, and specializes in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work focuses on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, with a particular emphasis on the power of openness, transparency and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society.
February 12 : Tuesday
Service Innovation with Non-designers
This talk explore co-designing innovations with everyday people, i.e. non-designers. He will present an example case study that was conducted with a bank's phone service in order to develop knowledge management practices and tools. In the case study a combination contextual study and video scenario workshops were utilised together with a co-design approach with the bank's phone service workers. The project created new visions into ways to develop knowledge management in the bank. The talk will also examine experiences from essentially similar projects where new product and service innovations have been explored with non-designers.
Guest Lecturer: Salu Ylirisku of PARC
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Lecture Notes
Guest Lecturer Biography:
Salu Ylirisku (M.Sc.) is a visiting researcher at PARC, and is a Computer Science and design researcher at the University of Art and Design Helsinki / School of Design. His current doctoral studies focus on the construction of new ideas in social and material interaction. The particular perspective that he utilises in the study is called design framing
. Ylirisku has co-authored a book Designing with Video: Focusing the User-centred Design Process
, which was published last Fall (2007) by Springer. He has also published several scientific articles on the processes of user-centred innovation.
last updated on Spring 2008 by dret