MSc/PgDip Interactive Technologies for e-Commerce
Course Type:
Postgraduate
Name of Institution:
Napier University, Edinburgh
Department:
School of Computing
Course Duration:
One year (or two semesters for pgDip)
Qualification/credits on completion:
MSc or PgDip
Course/Module Website:
Brief description of course:
- IT-conversion MSc running for the first time in 2000, which combines Interactivity, Multimedia, Datawarehousing and Business Transformation.
- The graduates will be able to design e-Commerce interfaces that meet customers needs and so ensure that the e-business succeeds.
- Relevance of Interaction and Project Management are key areas.
- This programme has been designed to meet the needs of future e-businesses - those that will require substance rather than novelty to survive.
- Programme Leader is Tom McEwan 0131 455 4636
HCI content:
Most of the eight taught modules focus on customer-centred approaches, but the module "Interactivity and the Internet" has the greatest focus:
- Understand, describe and discuss the principles and techniques of effective human-computer interaction for interactive media applications;
- Analyse existing system interfaces in non-computing domains, and define criteria to be replicated in an online environment
- Design a usable human-computer interface according to appropriate principles, using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Be able to use and combine different interface components and media in an interface, the better to achieve a required outcome.
- Critically evaluate human-computer interfaces.
- Identify future trends in human-computer interfaces.
Contact name:
Dr Jose Munoz, admissions tutor
Email address:
Address:
219 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1DJ
Fax number:
0131 455 4552
Telephone number:
0131 455 4636
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