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Postgraduate Course: Interactive Visual Design (Online Distance Learning) (ARCH11250)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course introduces interactive visual design through creative coding, a field which uses scripting and visual programming to produce multimedia output. In this course code becomes an accessible medium for creative expression and interaction. The course offers an overview of the field of user interface and user experience in interactive design, and how it has been embedded in commercial and arts practices (e.g. Head Up Displays, Data Visualisation) together with generative techniques for multimedia art and design. The context of the course is formal process and computational thinking, interactivity, interface and engagement. This module provides opportunities for students to gain experience of integrating technologies and manipulating data, of developing generative algorithms and interactive behaviours, and of managing code efficiently from simple scripts to more complex object-oriented approaches, all of which have commercial value. Practical work includes designing interactive user interfaces, and generative and data driven visuals.
Course description The course is delivered through a series of lectures, tutorials, demonstrations, clinics and class-based critique of practical exercises and coursework submissions.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is only available to ECA students on the Digital Media Design (ODL) programme
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Knowledge of the critical context of computational art and design.
  2. Knowledge of commercial applications for creative coding.
  3. Ability to generate multimedia using algorithmic techniques.
  4. Ability to integrate external data and interactive behaviours.
  5. Ability to understand, plan, implement and evaluate user interface, user experience and computational processes.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsvisual design,interactive design,web design
Contacts
Course organiserDr Julian Rawlinson
Tel: (0131 6)51 4336
Email: jrawlins@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryDr Eadaoin Lynch
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: eadaoin.lynch@ed.ac.uk
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