Towards a New Science of Design?

Harvard GSD

This project-based course offers a critical examination of contemporary design practices, research methods, and discourses informed by Neuroscience, Behavioral Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Philosophy of the Mind. In recent years, theories of extended cognition, embodied interaction, and affective computing, combined with behavioral and physiological data collection techniques such as eye-tracking, electroencephalography, and electrodermal activity, have raised new questions…