Hi All, 

HCDE is offering a class fall quarter on designing for complex systems. It will feature a Red Cross project.  
HCDE 520 Design and Management of Complex Systems (4).  For more info contact Robin Mays rmays@uw.edu. 


If designing for Red Cross is of interest, you might like to attend an upcoming public talk by a major figure in disaster sociology Kathleen Tierney:
Creating a Culture of Disaster Preparedness    –  Gould Hall Room 322

 
Dharma Dailey

PhD Candidate
Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington 
dharmadailey.info




Begin forwarded message:

From: "Robin E. Mays" <rmays@uw.edu>
Subject: Fwd: [HCDE PhD Students] Updated information on HCDE 520
Date: September 8, 2017 at 8:05:20 AM PDT
To: dharma dailey <ddailey@uw.edu>, Amirah Majid <amirah@uw.edu>

Hi Dharma and Amirah! 
Would you share this? We need 5 more students.

Thank you!
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From: "Pat Reilly" <preilly@uw.edu>
Date: Aug 14, 2017 11:40 AM
Subject: [HCDE PhD Students] Updated information on HCDE 520
To: "hcde-phd@uw.edu" <hcde-phd@uw.edu>
Cc:

Hi all,

 

Mark Haselkorn and Robin Mays have been hard at work preparing for the upcoming fall quarter HCDE 520 Design & Management of Complex Systems course. Course descriptions are not always the best way to get a sense of what to expect in a class, especially with the constraint of 450 characters required for entry into the General Catalog. Here is a more user-friendly description:

 

What would an HCDE student get out of this class?

Designing technology that works well is only half of the battle of building successful socio-technical systems. What about whether it actually gets adopted, or meets the non-technical needs of your audience?  Most technologies do not operate as stand-alone systems, they are an intervention within a greater social ecosystem made of multiple stakeholders, larger missions, shared values and ways of operating. Accommodating these complexities is often the greater challenge or barrier to designing effective and successful technology.  This class addresses those realities and provides some insight and skills for recognizing, considering and incorporating them into your design process. In this class we will use and apply human-centered design principles, approaches and methods to develop a socio-technical solution for a real-world humanitarian organization need. 

Here is the new General Catalog description:

HCDE 520 Design and Management of Complex Systems (4)

Design and implementation of enhancements to complex work systems. Human-centered approaches to the design and management of technological systems embedded within complex social and organizational systems.  Designing to support decision-making and situational awareness, including sense making and adaptation in ambiguous situations. Focus on meeting diverse stakeholder needs in the context of emerging design methodologies.

Best,

Pat

 

 

 

 


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