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IDG2750

Desing of Interactive Environments

New from the academic year 2025/2026

Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Gjøvik
Examination arrangement Portfolio

About

About the course

Course content

This course explores what happens when you combine existing technologies to create experiences, where digital solutions meet the physical world.

Through the strategic use of design methodology and interaction design techniques, students will produce socially, environmentally and economically sound design solutions and demonstrate their qualities by developing prototypes.

Students work on concept development, design, construction and testing of an interactive environment.

Learning outcome

After completing the course, the student has a basic understanding of:

  • Interaction within virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and/or mixed (XR) environments.
  • 3D modeling.
  • The opportunity space that arises from combining digital and physical environments.
  • Methods, tools, and techniques required for developing concepts, designing, and evaluating interactive environments.

Skill Goals

After completing the course, the student has:

  • Basic skills in using relevant software.
  • The ability to combine digital and physical environments to create interactive solutions.

General Competence

  • The ability to identify an issue and propose solutions that are academically grounded and extend beyond the physical space.
  • The capacity to collaborate with others to assess a problem, and choose appropriate frameworks and methods for sketching/prototyping solution proposals.
  • The ability to critically reflect on the choice of solutions for a given or self-selected problem.
  • To be an active and constructive participant in a project, adhering to timelines, tasks, and collaboration with partners.
  • The capability to document a scientific work.

Learning methods and activities

The teaching methods in this course will include lectures, group-based guidance, project work and concept development, as well as testing and evaluating solutions together with users.

Mandatory Activities

  • Project outline

Compulsory assignments

  • Project plan

Further on evaluation

Students have one mandatory group assignment early in the course. The assignment is a project description and plan for the group and must be submitted before the project can begin.

Mandatory deliverable must be passed to pass the course. In the case of re-take, the course must be retaken during the next regular run through of the course.

Assessment: portfolio 100%.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Interaction Design (BIXD)

Course materials

Information about the course material will be provided at the start of the semester

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
IDG3750 7.5 sp Autumn 2024
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Design Methodology

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Design

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Portfolio
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

Portfolio
Weighting 100/100 Date Submission 2025-12-03 Time Submission 14:00 Exam system Inspera Assessment