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Interaction Design Engineering
Subject Group Lead: Dr. Vassilis Charissis
Tel: 00 44 (0)141 331 3662
Interaction Design Engineering is the subject area of design, implementation and evaluation of compelling, innovative interactive systems. User Experience and meaningful Human-Computer Interaction are vital to the development of functional and user-friendly systems, across every field of technology from medical applications and games, to sensors and mobile applications. Interaction Design Engineering group is dedicated to investigate new technological challenges and opportunities as they arise in this broad spectrum of technological and engineering fields.
IDE is an essential element for successful systems and products such as the following examples:
- Medical HCI and simulation
- Games and Interactive Entertainment
- Serious Games
- Vehicular Interaction systems
- Mobile applications
- Social Networks
- Build and Natural Environment, Simulation and Interaction
- HCI for Sustainability and Eco-friendly systems
Areas of Excellence:
- User Experience
- Games Software Deign and Development
- Virtual and Augmented Reality HCI
- Music and Audio Interaction
- Haptics and Gesture Recognition
- Affective HCI
- Mobile HCI
- Web-applications
- Simulation
- Interface Usability
- Human Factors Engineering
- E-Learning
Courses within Subject group:
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games (Design)
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games (Software Development)
- BA (Hons) Computer Games (Art and Animation)
Academic Staff List:
- Professor Caroline Parker
- Prof Lynne Baillie
- Jon Sykes
- Dr Gianna Cassidy
- David Moffat
- Julie Campbell
Industry Links:
- Microsoft
- Harmonix
- NHS
- NES (NHS Education for Scotland)
- Orange
- Samsung
- Toshiba
- BBC
- Unity3D
- Autodesk
Employability:
The Interaction Design and Engineering specialty creates ample opportunities of employability from an extensive market of computing, and engineering firms as evidently presented in the group’s current industry links.