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4 day workshop on
'Design for Children'
October 2nd to October 5th
IDC, IIT Bombay

Introduction
Course Contents
Design Project
Faculty
Who will benefit?
Registration

Introduction

    The workshop on 'Visual Design for Interactive Media' is meant for people working with the new media technologies. It is clear that there are unique ways for people to interact with what the technology offers. This workshop on design for the interactive media intends to throw light on some of the issues connected with this area.
     The workshop will deal with theoretical issues of interaction design, interfaces, information structuring, navigation, icon design and metaphors and practical issues with regard to the construction of interactive devices.
     Each day will be structured around lectures and discussions on these subjects followed by hands-on working on an actual interaction design project for the entire duration of the workshop.


Course Contents-topics for the lecture sessions:

- Information Structuring
- Information Visualisation
- Interaction Design Process
- Interactive Devices
- Temporal Design
- Usability Issues
- Human Factors
- Evolution of Interactive Media
- Case studies in Interaction Design



Design Project- hands-on sessions:

·   Participants will form groups and work on a specific interaction design project, with the help of experts in this field. On the last day of the workshop, these design solutions will be presented and discussed with the faculty from IDC.
Faculty

The workshop will have sessions by the faculty of the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT Bombay:
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah
Prof. G V Sreekumar
Prof. U A Athavankar
Prof. N Sadhu
Prof. Anirudha Joshi

Apart from them, many professionals from the field of Interaction Design will be conducting sessions with the participants in this workshop.



Who will Benefit?

    The workshop is meant for all professionals involved in the design and the production of new media. This would include graphic designers, product designers, software programmers, multimedia designers, script writers, editors and interface designers.

     Organisations would particularly benefit from the workshop by sending in a team of professionals to learn collectively from real life case studies, new techniques and tips and the theoretical aspects of design principles.



 
Registration:


The course fee for the workshop is Rs. 6,000.
For participants from Educational Institutions, the fee is Rs. 4,000.
This includes course material, lunch and refreshments for four days.

Participants can send a demand draft / cheque payable to "Registrar, IIT Bombay" along with the filled up registration form to

Prof. Ravi Poovaiah,
Workshop Co-ordinator,
IDC, IIT, Powai,
Mumbai. 400 076.

Please send the following details along with the registration fees:
Name:
Designation:
Organisation:
Address:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:

Do you need accommodation?
(Limited accommodation is available at the IIT guest house on a first come first serve basis.)





If you have any queries, please contact: seminar@idc.iitb.ac.in

 

 


Enquiry or for
further
details contact:

Prof. Ravi Poovaiah
Workshop on
'Design for
Interactive Media'
Industrial Design
Centre
Indian Institute
of Technology
Bombay Powai,
Mumbai 400 076,
India

Phone:  
091-22-576 7820
 091-22-576 7801
Fax:  
091-22-576 7803,
091-22-572 3480

email:
seminar@idc.iitb.ac.in
ravi@idc.iitb.ac.in

                     
                     
                     
 
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