DEA 5210

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  • Schedule of Classes - September 22, 2025 1:06PM EDT

DEA 5210
Interaction Design Studio

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Everyday things made interactive and adaptive by way of embedded systems have great promise to support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, play, interconnect, and age. Students will iteratively design, prototype and evaluate artful, meticulous, full-scale, cyber-physical things responsive to specific challenges of an increasingly digital society.


Prerequisites DEA majors must have completed two DEA studio courses at the 2000 and 3000 level.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment preference given to: DEA, FSAD, IS and MAE majors. Students outside of these majors require permission of instructor.

Fees 60. course fee.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2020SP

Outcomes

  • To grapple with under-constrained, wicked problems and opportunities of an increasingly digital society.
  • To demonstrate an ability to design, prototype, and evaluate full-scale, interactive and adaptive things responsive to these problems and opportunities, and present them in a video.
  • To demonstrate, in a written report, an ability to communicate the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the interactive prototypes, as well as assess their shortcomings.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5591 DEA 5210   STU 501

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Green, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) majors must have completed two DEA studio courses at the 2000 and 3000 level. Enrollment preference given to: Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), Fiber Science and Apparel Design (FSAD), Information Science and Mechanical Engineering majors; other by permission of instructor.
    Course fee: $60.