User-Centered Design and Evaluation

Lectures comprise a topic presentation (i.e., slides) and, whenever feasible, a practical exercise. This exercise will rely on example data or data produced on the spot.

Labs

Labs comprise of two main activities that take place in tandem:

Foreground activity: teams receive individual feedback on their progress from the lab instructor. This time is evenly split between the teams in the lab.
Background activity: team members work on their projects by carrying out the planned activities for the lab and by leveraging the contents of the latest lectures.

🎯 Briefs and Assessment

You and your team will work on a project from one of two briefs — choose wisely. Your assessment and deliverables are described in detail in each of the briefs, but you can find an overview of the assessment weeks below (i.e., mandatory attendance):

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Examples from Previous Years

Be aware, these were projects with different briefs. Use them as an example but not as a reference for what you must achieve.

2023/24

2022/23

2021/22

2019/20

2018/19

✋ Ground Rules

Not only do you need to be enrolled in a lab to complete this course, but you also need to be in a team by the end of the first lab.
Working in teams is mandatory.
Attending lectures is highly recommended; this is where you first learn the techniques and methods you will apply in your project and lab sessions. Attending labs where assessments occur is mandatory (see Briefs and Assessment).
Due to the large number of teams, when interacting with instructors, please start by providing a recap of your project so that we can advise you effectively.
Make sure to bring paper, pens, highlighters, post-its, scissors, etc. to both lectures and labs.
Student-workers (trabalhadores-estudantes, TEs), identified in Fenix as such, do not need to enrol in a lab and will be assigned a group at the start of the course. If a TE enrols and participates in the first lab, they will be assessed for the remainder of the course as a regular student. For more details, visit: https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/disciplinas/CCU11/2024-2025/1-semestre/metodos-de-avaliacao.
We have a strict policy of not accepting course enrolments from the second week onwards, due to the time constraints of our quarter-based teaching structure.

🏢 Office Hours

We ask that you inform us at least the day before that you wish to talk to us during office hours. This way, we can better manage the influx of teams or even agree to talk via Zoom.