Unit information: Digital Health Group Interaction Design Project in 2022/23

Unit name	Digital Health Group Interaction Design Project
Unit code	COMSM0082
Credit points	30
Level of study	M/7
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director	Dr. O'Kane
Open unit status	Not open
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units)	N/A
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units)	N/A
Units you may not take alongside this one	N/A
School/department	School of Computer Science
Faculty	Faculty of Engineering

Unit Information

The aim of this unit is to provide students with practical experience in applying user-centred, participatory, theory-informed and evidence-based design methodologies to a real-world digital health or care challenge.

Unit content:

• Students will engage with a real-world digital health or care challenge outside of the clinical setting (i.e. looking at community or home-based care, not hospital settings)
• Approaches to participatory and user-centred design with health communities
• Development of low and medium fidelity prototypes
• Approaches to evaluating digital health and care interventions

Your learning on this unit

Intended learning outcomes

Having completed this unit, the students will be able to:

1. Critically engage in real-world challenges for health and care
2. Demonstrate an ability to plan and deliver a design led solution based on the needs of health communities.
3. Demonstrate an expert understanding of participatory and/or user-centred approaches towards evaluating, designing and implementing digital technologies for health and/or care
4. Demonstrate a wide range of prototyping skills including using modern frameworks for developing simple mobile apps
5. Demonstrate an understanding of how mobile apps handle user interaction
6. Demonstrate the ability to present academic interaction design research in the format of a conference publication (such as to ACM CHI or ACM DIS) and a presentation
7. Critically engage with the design of data collection, prototyping, and evaluation for a design research project of a publishable level
8. Demonstrate the ability to critically engage in HCI academic literature and conduct academic peer reviews
9. Identify any ethical issues that arise in their work, data collection or processing in order to seek expert guidance.

How you will learn

Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions, including lectures, practical activities and self-directed exercises. Compulsory training on identifying ethical issues associated to the project work will be organised by the Unit Director.

How you will be assessed

Ethics application (with full ethics form, consent form, and information sheet as per University of Bristol Ethics Standards). 10%. ILO 1,2&7. In addition to achieving a pass overall, students must complete the ‘must-do’ ethics training in order to be awarded credit points for the unit. This training takes the form of an online introduction and test (e.g. via Blackboard) with immediate feedback and unlimited answer adjustments until sufficient proficiency is demonstrated.

Group Project write up in conference format (maximum 10 page plus references in format suitable for submission to ACM CHI or ACM DIS conference). 60%. ILO 1-7

In-lab assessment of the development of a simple mobile app. 20%. ILO 4&5.

Academic Peer review of conference paper. 10% ILO 8

Resources

If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.

If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. COMSM0082).

How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks, independent learning and assessment activity.

See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.

Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit. The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.