Teaching

Current Courses @PoliTO

• 01JSK - Human-Computer Interaction. The course is offered to students in the 2nd year of Master Degree in Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino. The teaching aims to introduce the fundamental theoretical concepts of Human-Computer Interaction, covering topics ranging from needfinding (questionnaires, interviews, observations, …) to prototyping interfaces for communication between end users and technology. Special emphasis is placed on the end user, who is involved in all design phases that users experience during the course. The ultimate goal is for students to learn how to design and create usable, useful, and utilized technologies.
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• 01DEL - Benessere Digitale. The course is offered to all the Ph.D. students of the Politecnico di Torino. It introduces students to digital wellbeing and gives them practical and conceptual methods for investigating and facing the impact of technology overuse on people. A combination of lectures and exercises will provide students with different techniques for analyzing technology through the lens of digital wellbeing and designing digital services that respect and preserve users’ attention and time.
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• 01DEL - Benessere Digitale. The course is offered to students in the 2nd year of Engineering (among elective courses) of the Politecnico di Torino. It is conducted in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at the University of Turin, and aims to provide the foundation for understanding and minimizing the negative aspects that result from overuse/abuse of technology, while providing methodologies for designing user interfaces that respect people’s digital wellbeing.
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Past Courses @PoliTO

• 01QZP - Ambient Intelligence. The course was offered to students in the 3rd year of Engineering (among elective courses) of the Politecnico di Torino. The course aimed at describing, from an experimental point of view, the fi eld of Ambient Intelligence (AmI), outlining its multidisciplinary nature as well as its technology and application area.
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• 01TXYOV - Web Applications I. The course is offered to students in the 1st year of Master Degree in Computer Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino. It aims at presenting the main techniques for creating distributed web applications. It particularly focuses on front-end programming: topics include the JavaScript language and the React framework.
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• 03FYZ - Tecniche di Programmazione. The course is offered to students in the 3rd year of Management Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino. It aims at improving the students’ programming skills, making them able to face complex problems through the development of software components.
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