User-centered software engineering

Course with project based activity where practical skills are developed through group work in interaction with lectures and the participants' experiences from their health or technical background. Related subjects: IT6105 MMI, TDT4180 Human-Machine Interaction, IT3402 Graphical User Interface Design & IT8002 Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction; IT6108 System Development.

After completing the course, the participant has knowledge of:

- Software development: concepts such as process models, methods and techniques for requirements specification, architecture design, design, testing, planning, configuration and quality management.

- Quality criteria for software systems, with special focus on criteria that are central to health IT, such as user-friendliness, security and reliability, and methods for how to evaluate that a solution satisfies the requirements.

- Basic concepts, principles and practices for the construction of user-friendly human-machine interfaces with special focus on health IT.

- User-centered design methodology and how it is used to develop user-friendly IT solutions.

- Lean methods, iterative design methodology and prototyping.

After completing the course, the participant must (skills):

- Be able to plan and manage a small software development project and participate in a suitable role at a more detailed level in the project.

- Master methods for exploring both user needs and strategic needs related to IT systems, and be able to formulate precise and verifiable requirements for IT solutions based on these needs, with special focus on user-friendliness requirements and security requirements.

- Experience in drawing and sketching user interfaces and creating prototypes of IT solutions at different levels.

- Experience with methods for evaluating the quality of IT systems.

After completing the course, the participant must (general competence):

- Be able to understand the importance of software development / system development as a profession.

- Be able to understand and talk about complex system development projects and associated technical and organizational issues.

- Can collaborate with developers and communicate design decisions with the development team.

- Can draft specifications for IT systems and services in ordering processes.

Lectures / exercises / group work.

The course requires a minimal number of participants to be given.