Graduate studies in IT Product Design

This week, from Monday Oct.27 to Thursday Oct. 30 is devoted to presentations, planning and meetings regarding the graduate course program on IT Products Design http://www.ug.dk/internationalt.aspx?article_id=english-techitproductdevelop . The program is wonderful and deserves a lot of attention. It positions itself vis a vis ‘innovation management’ and ‘design’ study programs, and programs on Interaction Design. Its profile is engineering meaning planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining activities, which transform resources of labor, capital (money, materials, & equipment), and knowledge into the physical facilities required to meet a broad range of social and economic needs. Its pedagogy is case- and problem based, with focus on innovation, through value-adding participation of all relevant stakeholders, by means of tangible interaction.
On Friday Anne Marie Kanstrup og jeg work out the draft of the FEEDBACK2 report.

To do-s of Oct. 20-24

Monday is dedicated to analyzing 22 interviews with customers from SydEnergi , who have received SMS and/or e-mail about their electricity consumption as part of the experiments conducted by the FEEDBACKproject. On Tuesday administrative work will take up most of the time, while on Wednesday Klaus Kaasgaard. Kaasgaard is invited by SPIRE , and he will talk about business strategies and user driven innovation. On Thursday Dr. Aleksandr Tsypin, Danfoss Russia, Dr. Victor F. Kuzishcin, Docent at Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Dr. Alexander V. Andryushin, Senior Lecturer of Moscow Aviation Institute visit SPIRE and I'll replace the director Jacob Buur in presenting SPIRE and UCD activities. On Friday the department of border region studies has a big event, which I'll attend.