DEA 5520
Virtual Experience of Designed Environments
This course will immerse students in advanced techniques of design communication and evaluation for simulation-based research on user experience in designed environments. Through lectures, readings, demos, and hands on exercises, the course explores advanced visualization media for design and design research.
Topics
- Students will demonstrate a coherent understanding of design and design research with advanced computer mediated 3D visualization technologies in the field of architecture, interior design, and user experience/interface design.
- Students will apply analytic knowledge from readings and discussions to critically review and evaluate existing theories in interdisciplinary areas of environment and behavior, environmental psychology, design communication and human-computer interaction.
- Students will brainstorm viable and innovative research topics and learn how to start and finish an experimental study from readings, lectures, demos, and discussions.
- Students will propose mini studies of their own based on selected experimental research frameworks and conduct preliminary user experience experiments (with as few as five subjects).
- Students will learn and demonstrate advanced 3D visualization skills required for experimental stimuli development.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
working knowledge and experience in 3D modeling and rendering.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
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Catalogue variants
- Virtual Experience of Designed Environments · 3.0 · Graduate