What is it about?
The main objectives of this study were to analyze the human-computer interaction in Product Design classrooms, by observing the users, the work activity and the environment, to understand the current demands for the use of laptop computers, and to observe current patterns of student interaction, and their needs.
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Why is it important?
Laptop computers are an indispensable tool for the learning of Product Design. However the universities classrooms are not adapted to the new technological evolutions and working processes.
Perspectives
This study results can promote: (a) the development of a set of data and information that can assist designers and other professionals in the product creation process; (b) the awareness of the universities to the need to modernize the spaces, furniture, and equipment, and to adapt them to the new processes of work and to the new student-computer interactional behaviors.
Professor Gustavo Desouzart
Piaget Institute of Viseu
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This page is a summary of: Understanding the Interaction of Design Students with Portable Computers in the Classroom, Procedia Manufacturing, January 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.800.
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