User based Welfare TechnologyLaajuus (3 cr)

Objectives

The course provides skills in the use of wellbeing technology for people of different ages.

The student

• is able to describe and evaluate the potential of welfare technology to maintain wellbeing and promote health.
• is able to find out the needs of different user groups and user experiences for different welfare technology solutions.
• knows methods of developing welfare technologies for the needs of different user groups.
• knows the principles of ethics in the user context of welfare technologies.
• knows and understands the importance of data protection in the context of welfare technologies.

Content

• maintaining well-being and promoting health as concepts
• key concepts and content in welfare technologies
• the potential of technology in maintaining well-being and health
• the core content and concepts of user-oriented design
• methods to address users' needs
• methods for the joint development of need-based and user-oriented technologies
• ethics and user data protection in the context of welfare technology

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student

• is able to describe and explain the key concepts, contents and methods of welfare technologies and user-oriented design
• is able to describe methods to identify user needs and is able to co-develop need-based and user-oriented technologies and has tried some of these
• does not actively discuss ethical and data protection issues in the context of welfare technologies

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student

• is able to correctly apply key concepts of welfare technologies and user-centered design and to choose methods for different situations in the development process
• is able to use methods to identify user demands and is able to co-develop technologies
• contributes to the discussion on ethical and data protection issues in the context of welfare technologies

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student

• is able to apply and combine methods to identify user demands and is able co-develop need-based and user-driven technologies
• is able to analyze, document and critically evaluate study results
• is able to contribute constructively to the ethical and data protection discussion in the context of welfare technology and is able to ground their points of view